Kristina Talbert-Slagle is an assistant professor of general internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, a core faculty member at the Equity Research and Innovation Center, and director of the Faculty Support Initiative at the Yale Institute for Global Health. She is a global health scholar and educator, focused on addressing global health and educational disparities through high-quality, interactive teaching and locally-appropriate and responsive scholarship and field programs. With doctoral training in genetics and virology and postdoctoral training in complex systems and health systems strengthening, Talbert-Slagle approaches her work, teaching, and mentorship through an interdisciplinary perspective.

Talbert-Slagle is part of a long-standing, trusting partnership with colleagues from the University of Liberia and the Liberian Ministry of Health to establish permanent academic programs and systems to fulfill Liberia's goals for strengthening its health workforce. She has been the principal investigator of a $15 million collaborative project with the University of Liberia and Vanderbilt University, funded by USAID, and served as the faculty director for Health Management and Preclinical Education workforce capacity-building programs in Liberia, funded by PEPFAR. She has published in multiple leading global health journals, examining factors that influence equity in international partnerships and innovative approaches to health workforce capacity-building, including transformation of medical education at Liberia’s only medical school.

At Yale, Talbert-Slagle has developed and taught a variety of global health courses for undergraduate and graduate students, including seminars focused on global health research and practice, HIV/AIDS, the role of water in infectious disease spread, and the complexities of evidence-based decision making. In 2016, Talbert-Slagle was honored with the Yale Poorvu Family Award for Interdisciplinary Teaching. She received her B.S. and B.A. degrees from the University of Kentucky and her Ph.D. from Yale University.