Kayla Enriquez, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Emergency Medicine
School of Medicine

Global Health interest specifically in health systems rebuilding both during and post humanitarian crisis. Experience in humanitarian field, refugee camp medicine, emergency medicine education abroad, and emergency medicine development.

Awards

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• Watson Scholar Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2016
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honors Society, George Washing University School of Medicine, 2009

Education & Training

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• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training University of California 2018
• International Emergency Medicine Fellowship Emergency Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital 2016
• MPH Global Health Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health 2016
• Residency Emergency Medicine Alameda Health Systems- Highland Hospital 2014
• MD School of Medicine George Washington University 2010

Publications (6)

Top publication keywords:
Antibiotic ProphylaxisUrine Specimen CollectionAnti-Infective AgentsSurgical Wound InfectionAnti-Bacterial AgentsHospitals, PublicEmergency Medical ServicesInfection ControlHand HygieneLiberiaSurgical WoundReferral and ConsultationHemorrhagic Fever, EbolaWorld Health OrganizationEpidemics

• Implementation and outcomes of a comprehensive emergency care curriculum at a low-resource referral hospital in Liberia: A novel approach to application of the WHO Basic Emergency Care toolkit.
  PloS one 2023 Epps L, Ramachandran A, Yi S, Mayah A, Burkholder T, Jaung M, Haider A, Wesseh P, Shakpeh J, Bills C, Enriquez K
• Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis among surgical patients: results from a retrospective observational study at a public hospital in Liberia.
  BMJ open 2022 Enriquez K, Raouf S, Shakpeh J, Niescierenko M, Mayah-Toto F
• Emergency department antimicrobial use in a low-resource setting: results from a retrospective observational study at a referral hospital in Liberia.
  BMJ open 2022 Yi S, Ramachandran A, Epps L, Mayah A, Burkholder TW, Jaung MS, Haider A, Whesseh P, Shakpeh J, Enriquez K, Bills C
• The Impact of Water Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) Improvements on Hand Hygiene at Two Liberian Hospitals during the Recovery Phase of an Ebola Epidemic.
  International journal of environmental research and public health 2021 Kanagasabai U, Enriquez K, Gelting R, Malpiedi P, Zayzay C, Kendor J, Fahnbulleh S, Cooper C, Gibson W, Brown R, Nador N, Williams DE, Chiriboga D, Niescierenko M
• Understanding the Predictors that Contribute to Liberian Health Care Workers Feeling Protected From Ebola While at Work.
  Disaster medicine and public health preparedness 2020 Enriquez K, Udhayashankar K, Niescierenko M
• Abnormal urinalysis results are common, regardless of specimen collection technique, in women without urinary tract infections.
  The Journal of emergency medicine 2015 Frazee BW, Enriquez K, Ng V, Alter H