Dr. Rosenberg is Head of Department for Emergency Medicine at the University of Botswana where he oversees medical education and research in emergency medicine and works clinically at Botswana’s largest teaching hospital. His areas of academic focus include alcohol use disorder in sub-Saharan Africa and global health bioethics. Dr. Rosenberg’s is working to develop and implement a brief intervention for patients with harmful alcohol use in Rwanda and screening instruments for alcohol use disorder in Botswana. He is mentored by Dr. Catherine Staton in this area. Dr. Rosenberg mentors projects in bioethics and alcohol use disorder for students and junior researchers in Botswana, Rwanda, Uganda and the United States.
Dr. Rosenberg completed residency in emergency medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and a Master of Public Health at Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health. His previous global health work includes humanitarian response to the 2014 Ebola crisis in West Africa, and he served for two years as faculty for the University of Rwanda’s training program in emergency medicine, where he was program director oversaw the first graduating class in 2018. He was a Bioethics fellow at Harvard Medical School, and completed an National Institutes of Health T32 research fellowship. In 2019 he was the Andrew Markus Visiting Scholar for bioethics at the University of Oxford, Ethox Centre. His work has been published and presented internationally.