CGHE Leadership Structure

Currently serving as the Chief of Staff, Center for Global Health Engagement, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Responsible for managing and coordinating a professional staff involved in a variety of projects within select Regional Combatant Commands in the areas of military Global Health Engagement activities as well as overseeing the operational execution of the multitude of tasks within the Center mission domain.
Cumulative experience is based on more than 32 years of direct participation, management, and coordination of military health engagement programs and missions in the areas of disaster preparedness and response, public health capacity building, and civil-military operations. Retired Medical Service Corps Officer in the United States Air Force with specific experiences in humanitarian assistance and contingency operations planning during contingency operations from Panama in 1989, through Operation Desert Storm, Haiti, Kosovo, and Operation Iraqi Freedom.

2004 University of Washington School of Public Health, MPH in Occupational and Environmental Medicine
1995 The University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine M.D.
1991 Dordt College, BA in Chemistry and Biology

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN)- State University of New York Plattsburgh
Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)-University of Washington
Master of Public Health (MPH)-San Diego State University

CAPT Carolyn Currie is Director, Training and Professional Development Division of the USU Center for Global Health Engagement. . Prior to joining CGHE, she served as the Regional Public Health Emergencies Officer for Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia. and Medical Directorate Senior Nursing Officer at USHN Naples, Italy. CAPT Currie is a board-certified Women's Health Nurse Practitioner (WHNP). She received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from State University of New York at Plattsburgh and earned her Master of Public from San Diego State University. She previously served as the Navy Public Health Nursing Specialty Leader.

CAPT Currie became a plank owner and Deputy Director of the Global Health Engagement Office, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in 2012. . She deployed to Kuwait in 2006 as the first WHNP to support OIF/OEF. She was selected by Pacific Fleet N5 to be the Medical Assessment Officer aboard USS Pearl Harbor during Pacific Partnership 2013 deployment. CAPT Currie has worked with the Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program since 2007. She has engaged in medical activities with the Zambian Defense Force and Uganda Peoples Defence Force supporting cervical cancer screening programs and adolescent friendly health services for HIV positive beneficiaries. She also served on the DHAPP Funding Review Board responsible for appropriation of DoD and PEPFAR funding to organizations in over 80 countries.

Her personal awards include the Meritorious Service Medal (1), Navy Commendation Medal (5), Navy Achievement Medal (2), and several unit awards.

Colonel Rachelle Paul-Kagiri is the Director of Research at the USU Center for Global Health Engagement. Col Rachelle Paul-kagiri is a board-certified Emergency Medicine Physician and Internist. She also holds an appointment as assistant Professor in the Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics Department at the Uniformed Services University where she oversees the Global Health concentration as the International Health Specialist Academic Director.

Prior her current assignment, Col Rachelle Paul-Kagiri served as the Director of the Defense Institute for Medical Operations an organization with the medical Security Cooperation mission to trained international students both military and civilian in medical skills. She was deployed to Afghanistan; her other assignments include: Surgeon General of the Hospital at GoodFellow Air Force Base, Deputy Surgeon of United States Military Entrance Processing Command and Flight Commander of Emergency Services at Travis Air Force Base.

BA in Biological Sciences
Master in Public Administration
Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies

LTC Sueann Ramsey, a native of Los Angeles, California, joined the Center for Global Health Engagement (CGHE), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, as the Deputy Director, Programs and Joint Force Support (PJFS) Division, in July 2017. She later became the Director of PJFS Division in Dec 2017. She serves as the senior Army Environmental Science and Engineering Officer at CGHE and facilitates collaboration and synchronization of global health efforts in support of Combatant Commands, Service Components, and other Department of Defense agencies.

LTC Ramsey enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1992 and completed Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. She served as a Preventive Medicine Specialist before receiving her direct commission as a Second Lieutenant in June 1994.

In 1994, LTC Ramsey was assigned to William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Preventive Medicine Department, Fort Bliss, Texas. She served in two key positions including Installation Environmental Science Officer and the Chief of Environmental Health, which was a field grade officer position. In 1997, she was assigned to Martin Army Community Hospital, Preventive Medicine Department, Fort Benning, Georgia as the Chief of Environmental Health. In 2000, she was assigned to the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine, Camp Zama, Japan, where he served in a variety of positions to include Detachment Commander for 18 months, Industrial Hygiene Project Officer, and Chief of Field Preventive Medicine. She was assigned to Dwight D. Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon, Georgia in 2004 and served as the Regional Environmental Science Officer, providing environmental health consultation and support to 7 Army installations in the southeast region. Her last three assignments before arriving to CGHE in Jul 2017 was at the Joint Task Force Civil Support, Fort Monroe, VA, as the Force Health Protection Officer, at the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Eustis, VA, as the Executive Officer for the Command Surgeon, and at the U.S. Africa Command, as the Chief, Force Health Protection Branch, Office of the Command Surgeon, Stuttgart, Germany.

LTC Ramsey currently has 25 years of active duty service. In 2006, she completed Command and General Staff College and was deployed to Iraq for 12 months as the Chief of Preventive Medicine at the Multi-National Corps-Iraq headquarters, Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq. She served as the Preventive Medicine advisor to the Director of Preventive Medicine for the Iraqi Armed Forces. In addition, she spearheaded the coordination and establishment of the Iraqi Public Health program.

LTC Ramsey’s awards and decorations include the Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (5), Joint Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal (3), Joint Service Achievement Medal, and Army Achievement Medal (2).

LTC Ramsey graduated from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences. In 2003, she earned a Master of Public Administration from Troy State University, Dothan, Alabama, and in 2011, earned a Master of Arts degree in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. She is a fluent Thai speaker.