Tamar Besson, RN, MSN, FNP, MPH, has over two decades of experience as a family nurse practitioner organizing community and school clinics in California, Colorado, Connecticut and New York, with a focus on adolescent health care. Tamar understands how to garner community support for clinics, determine supply needs, develop clinic systems, design forms and establish data collection systems. In addition, Tamar has also administered and managed clinics, supervised staff, coordinated with school faculty/administration, provided clinical services, and collaborated and coordinated with the school district, county medical center, and private NGOs.
Tamar has also worked in Colombia, Honduras, and Paraguay where she developed and implemented training curriculum for incoming health educators to work with community health workers and midwives. As part of these efforts, she conducted pre-training research, developed curriculum, wrote objectives, conducted sessions and evaluated trainees.
Earlier in her career, Tamar worked in Bangladesh as a program evaluation consultant at the International Center for Diarrhea Disease Research, and served as the United States Peace Corps National Coordinator for Health/Nutrition Programs in the Dominican Republic.
Tamar has Master of Science Nursing, Family Nurse Practitioner Specialty, from the University of California San Francisco School of Nursing. She also received a Master of Public Health from Yale University School of Medicine, and received a Bachelor’s degree in Health Arts and Science from University of California, Berkeley.
Tamar is fluent in English and Spanish.