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Dr. Thuy Bui

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

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Thuy D. Bui is the director of the Global Health-Underserved Populations track of the internal medicine residency program at UPMC and the Social Medicine Fellowship Program at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  She serves as the Social medicine Thread Lead for the Three Rivers Curriculum. She was a Peace Corps volunteer and medical specialist at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Malawi from 1995-1997 and has since continued to teach and mentor Malawian students and residents.  She is responsible for several curricular initiatives related to social determinants of health (SDH) including the SDH Fast Facts, teaching SDH and upstream QI workshops.  She has served on the leadership team of the Birmingham Free Clinic to provide healthcare for uninsured patients since 1999.  Her current research interest is in social needs intervention, anti-racist practice, refugee health, global workforce crisis and humanism in medicine