Karen Sherk Chio

Karen Sherk Chio, MPH (she/her), is Upstream’s Director of Training Implementation. She leads the implementation strategy and the talented team that delivers training for clinicians and staff at health agencies across all states where Upstream works.

Since 2000, Karen has dedicated her career to mission-driven work in health and education. Before coming to Upstream USA in 2019, she was the Associate Director for Executive Education at Harvard Medical School, leading the operations of the Executive Education function. Prior to her work at Harvard, Karen worked for 15 years at Management Sciences for Health, a global public health non-profit. There she led complex education and training programs in multiple languages for thousands of health professionals in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. She is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who taught English as a Foreign Language in Madagascar.