Rachel is a research director in the Health Horizons Program. Her research interests include migration and health, the global trade of health services, the global portability of health and pension benefits, and the international movement of health professionals. After joining IFTF, Rachel has applied trends in new media and mobile technologies to her health systems expertise to study how personal technologies are informing health care practices and delivering care. Much of her technology research has focused on mobile technologies and access to digital content in Latin America. She has directed fieldwork and quantitative and qualitative research in Brazil, Mexico and Argentina.

Rachel has written on standardizing education and training for international health professionals, the role of telehealth in facilitating service delivery across borders in the European Union, the increasing opportunities for Mexican health professionals to work in the United States, and service delivery schemes and financing for U.S. citizens living in Mexico.

She has a BA in politics and international studies from Oberlin College and an MPAff from the University of Texas at Austin.

• Carnival Future Forces Map
• HC2020 Internal Research
• Health Horizons
• IFTF Staff Posts
• Mobile Health
• Nokia Area Trends 2012
• Technology Horizons
• Ten-Year Forecast
• The American Heart Association Social Media Project