Alum Christine Ngaruiya ('06) received the Outstanding International Alumnus Award from the Nebraska Alumni Association.
She will be recognized with other alumni at the association's awards banquet on Thursday, May 5. The department will have a reception for her at 3:30pm in 707 Oldfather Hall, before the banquet.
She is a faculty member in the Section of Global Health and International Emergency Medicine in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University. She attended grade school through high school in Kenya but entered UNL at age 15, earning undergrad research grants and graduating with honors in sociology.
Ngaruiya completed her medical degree at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and a Global Health and International Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Yale.
As part of the Global fellowship, she also furthered work on her research interests: Non-communicable Diseases (NCDs), barriers to care, community-based interventions, and ethics in clinical practice, all with a focus on Africa and specifically her home-country, Kenya.
Ngaruiya lives in New Haven.
Nebraska Magazine featured a story about her in their Winter 2015 issue.
