Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies (CHRHS)

Giovanna De Luca

Giovanna De Luca

Global Emergency Medicine Fellow

Dr. Giovanna De Luca is currently completing her residency in Emergency Medicine at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University as a Brown Residency International/Global Health Training (BRIGHT) scholar. She will be a Global Emergency Medicine Fellow in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown University starting in August 2023.  She has a strong interest in humanitarian medicine and in studying the intersection of emergency care and forced migration. Additionally, she has a focus on medical education. She is currently developing a curriculum for Brown University medical students based on refugee health and has spent the past three years researching effectiveness of formalized emergency medicine training in Kenya. She obtained a Masters in Nutrition from Columbia University where she focused on childhood stunting in post-conflict zones and completed medical school at SUNY Upstate Medical University.