Alex Harsha Bangura, MD

Dr. Alex Harsha Bangura is passionate about broad scope family medicine and rural and global health equity. She is the inaugural program director for the UMN Lakewood Rural Family Medicine Residency. She has significant clinical experience in family medicine with surgical obstetrics. Her prior academic work is in implementation research for maternal and child health quality improvement in severely under-resourced settings, and she brings this experience to her current work on rural health equity and maternal health equity in particular. She is thrilled to be building an innovative and rigorous family medicine program for physicians who want to practice where they are needed most. In addition to this work, she has experience as an adjunct professor, supervising RPAP medical students.