Medeva Ghee PhD

Dr. Medeva Ghee is the Executive Director of the Leadership Alliance and a faculty member in the Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences at Brown University.  As Director of the Leadership Alliance, she is responsible for leading the 36-member consortium dedicated to increasing the participation of underrepresented students in competitive graduate and doctoral training programs and ultimately developing leaders and role models in academia, the public and private sectors. She is the Director and Principal Investigator on a number of programs to prepare students for Ph.D. training and to consider careers in the professoriate and broader research workforce.  Dr. Ghee previously worked with the Clinton HIV/AIDS Initiative as a Laboratory Systems Specialist. In this capacity, she provided technical assistance and strategic advice on the development of laboratory plans and systems to support national HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment programs in the Initiative's partner countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Informed by these experiences, she developed a course on multidisciplinary approaches to support HIV/AIDS care and treatment programs in Sub-Saharan Africa that is offered to Brown undergraduates and Master’s degree students. A graduate of North Carolina State University with a bachelor's degree in zoology, she earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in microbiology from New York University School of Medicine. Her postdoctoral research was conducted with a team of CNRS researchers in Paris, France, where she employed biochemical and gene therapy technologies to investigate the impact of protein aggregation in Parkinson's disease. At Brown, Dr. Ghee is actively engaged in mentoring and has served as a faculty advisor for Brown undergraduate independent thesis projects and mentor for graduate students. She was honored by the Samuel M. Nabrit Black Graduate Student Association with the Ruth J. Simmons Award for Leadership.