Dr. Teri Reynolds leads the Clinical Services and Systems Unit in the department of Integrated Health Services at World Health Organization Headquarters in Geneva.
The Clinical Services and Systems Unit brings together WHO’s work on integrated delivery channels –including primary care, emergency care, critical care, operative care— with cross-cutting efforts on effective service organization and people’s movement across the health system. The unit coordinates WHO workstreams on models of care and referral and leads the WHO programmes on palliative care, sepsis care, and trauma care.
Dr Reynolds previously led the emergency and trauma care programmes at WHO and coordinated efforts on maintaining essential health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. She was previously a professor and Director of Global Health in the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; chaired the Scientific Committee of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine; and directed the Emergency Medicine Residency and research programmes at Muhimbili National Hospital in Tanzania for several years. She is a member of the United States National Academy of Medicine.