Dominique Vervoort

Dominique Vervoort, M.D., is an MPH/MBA student at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. Having completed the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship at Harvard Medical School, he is interested in global health equity and health systems strengthening.

Articles by Dominique Vervoort

A poster in Hanoi, Vietnam reminds people to take protective measures against COVID-19, April 1, 2020 in Hanoi, Vietnam. Image: Linh Pham/Getty

COVID-19 Isn't Political; Its Response Shouldn't Be Politicized

A Chaudoir funeral home employee disinfects the coffin of a COVID-19 victim in Namur, Belgium on April 20, 2020. Image: John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

Make All COVID-19 Deaths Count

Medical staff care for a COVID-19 patient in the intensive care unit of the Ariana Mami hospital near the Tunisian capital, Tunis, on April 22, 2020. Image: Fethi Belaid /AFP via Getty Images

COVID-19 and the Critical Shortage in Critical Care

A Syrian doctor checks on a child after a surgery at a hospital in Syria's Idlib province, September 10, 2018. Image: Aaref WATAD/AFP/Getty

Saving the Future Through the Art of the Knife

In the operating theater at Sotouboua hospital in Togo, Africa. Image: BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty

Cutting Through the Political Declaration on Universal Health Coverage

Surgeons are at work during restorative surgery on a survivor of female genital mutilation in Nairobi, Kenya on May 11, 2017.

Gender Equity Key to Providing Patients with Best Possible Surgical Care