Cecily Gallup, MD, MPH
Co-Director of Resident and Fellow Global Health Education
About
Dr. Gallup is an Associate Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine-Pediatrics at UCLA. In her role as Special Advisor to the Interim Director, Dr. Gallup oversees all of the clinical and classroom elements of the Global Health Program, as well as opportunities for expansion, including of multidisciplinary opportunities within the health sciences and across UCLA.
Dr. Gallup has worked internationally, providing clinical care, training local providers, and conducting research in Niger, South Africa, Rwanda, Malawi, and Haiti. As a volunteer provider for Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), she performed medical evaluations of survivors of torture and persecution in support of their applications for asylum at the Weill Cornell Center for Human Rights (WCCHR) and continues this work at UCLA with the Los Angeles Human Rights Initiative (LAHRI). She is a board member for the Alliance for International Medical Action (ALIMA), a Senegal-based humanitarian medical organization that operates in conflict zones in West and Central Africa. Dr. Gallup maintains her clinical practice as a Hospitalist, as well as an outpatient urgent care provider for children and adults.