[2] Kerry graduated from Phillips Academy, Andover and summa cum laude from Yale University with a major in biology.
[5] Kerry completed her internal medicine residency and critical care fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
[6] Kerry also serves as director of the Program in Global Public Policy and Social Change and is an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
The Partnership sent health professionals abroad to work as medical and nursing educators and to help build capacity.
With the Peace Corps through GHSP, Seed helped send over 191 physician and nurse educators to train more than 16,000 health professionals in sub-Saharan Africa.
[9] The program is currently active in Malawi, Uganda, Sierra-Leone, and Zambia and has trained almost 40,000 health workers in seven countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in total.
[10] In 2010, Kerry wrote an op-ed on the idea of sending American health professionals to teach for The New York Times.
[20] On October 10, 2009 in Boston, Kerry married neurosurgeon Brian Vala Nahed, who specializes in brain tumors and spinal disorders.
[21] As a surgeon and scientist, Nahed leads a research lab, which aims to develop the first blood test for brain tumors.