Courtney - Program Officer for Health
Courtney is the new Program Officer for Health at the International Community Foundation. Courtney will provide programmatic leadership and oversight for the International Community Foundation's border health program with an emphasis on promoting expanded public engagement focused on tuberculosis (TB) prevention and education in the San Diego-Baja California border region.
Courtney graduated from UCSD with a bachelor's degree in Human Biology and from San Diego State University's Graduate School of Public Health with a Master's degree in Public Health- Epidemiology. Courtney has experience working with several research studies including Project Healthy Smiles with the San Diego State University Research Federation and the Beehive Project with the Chicano Federation. Courtney has also worked in a molecular biology laboratory at UCSD and as an intern at the UCSD Moores Cancer Center studying brain cancer epidemiology. As part of her studies at SDSU, Courtney was also involved with a project in San Quintín, Baja California, studying the potential risk factors for reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection, present in the community. Prior to starting at the International Community Foundation, Courtney interned with Fundación Huésped in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Courtney's previous non-profit experience includes three years as a student volunteer with Camp Kesem, a summer camp for children who have a parent with cancer. She was Co-Chair in her final year of involvement with the organization and oversaw the fundraising, camp planning, recruitment and training of 20 student volunteers and 50 campers.
Contact:
Email: courtney@icfdn.org
Direct: (619) 773-2120
