Ellen Einterz

Dr. Ellen Einterz has spent most of her life in rural West and Central Africa. After two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger in the mid-1970s, she directed a Catholic mission hospital in Benue State, Nigeria. She moved to northern Cameroon in 1990 and remained for 24 years, building and leading a district hospital and public health service. She was medical coordinator of an Ebola Treatment Unit in Liberia during the epidemic of 2014-2015, and she is presently working in Indianapolis,...See more

Dr. Ellen Einterz has spent most of her life in rural West and Central Africa. After two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger in the mid-1970s, she directed a Catholic mission hospital in Benue State, Nigeria. She moved to northern Cameroon in 1990 and remained for 24 years, building and leading a district hospital and public health service. She was medical coordinator of an Ebola Treatment Unit in Liberia during the epidemic of 2014-2015, and she is presently working in Indianapolis, Indiana, with refugees newly arrived from war-torn countries. She is affiliated with Indiana University School of Medicine and Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health in Indianapolis. See less