About Ann Evensen

Ann Evensen, MD, FAAFP is a Professor (CHS) and Director of Global Health in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health. She is the Faculty Director for UW Madison’s Graduate/Professional and Capstone Certificate Programs in Global Health Online. 

She graduated from the UW School of Medicine and completed family medicine residency training in Renton, Washington. Her areas of interest include faculty development, pregnancy care, and a One Health approach to global engagement. She has led graduate-level global health field courses in India, Guatemala and Uganda, received a Fulbright Specialist Award for work in India, and created an online global health course focused on noncommunicable disease and determinants of health (PUBLHLTH 713).

She has been an author, editor, Advisory Faculty and Course Director for the AAFP’s hands-on, team-based courses on emergency obstetric care: Advanced and Basic Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO and BLSO).  She has directed and taught in over 80 of these courses throughout the US, Ethiopia, Ghana and India. She is a member of the ALSO India Advisory Board and advisor to Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI) Green, an Indian public-private partnership that trains emergency personnel and provides ambulance services for 800 million Indian citizens. She has been a consultant for the inaugural Family Medicine residency in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and acted as an external examiner for family medicine residencies in the United Arab Emirates, Uganda and Saudi Arabia.

She is the past Chair of the American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP) Center for Global Health Initiatives Advisory Board and member of AAFP Patient Safety and Maternity Care Advisory Board. She is a member of the UW Global Health Institute’s Advisory Committee.