Tsering Wangmo, MPH
Tsering Wangmo grew up in Dho Tarap Dolpo, one of the highest permanent settlements in the world (13,500 feet), located in far west Nepal. She has decades of experience working in mountain communities such as a clinical nurse, travel nurse, school teacher, healthcare trainer, and project coordinator.
She has a Bachelor of Nursing Science from Maharajgunj Nursing Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal, and a Master of Public Health and Graduate Certificate in Global Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children (Global WACh Certificate) from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Her interest has always been to work and advocate for under-served populations and people of the mountains. As a graduate student in the United States, she explored different facets of the public health profession as a research and teaching assistant at the University of Washington and working with people experiencing homelessness as a graduate intern at the La Familia Medical Center’s Healthcare for Homeless Clinic in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After graduation,she worked as a full-time research coordinator at Seven Directions: A Center for Indigenous Public Health at the University of Washington, which serves tribal communities around the United States.
Currently, she serves as a co-director of Upaya’s Nomads Clinic, based in New Mexico, which serves people in remote areas of the Himalayas. With her return to Nepal, she hopes to continue working to improve healthcare access for her beloved people in the high Himalayas.
Education
- Bachelor of Nursing Science, Maharajgunj Nursing Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal
- Bachelor of Nursing Science from Maharajgunj Nursing Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal, and a Master of Public Health and Graduate Certificate, Global Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children (Global WACh Certificate), University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
