Elizabeth Collins, MD, MPH, '96 written by Rebecca Budde "The basic practice of medicine is the same no matter where you are," says Elizabeth Montgomery Collins, MD, MPH. That was the lesson she learned on her first overseas medical trip to Malawi, Africa as a third-year SIU medical student from Charleston and Centralia, Illinois. Since that first experience, she has cared for HIV-infected children and adults and also worked as a global health expert in many areas of the world, including Malawi, Peru, Romania, Moldova, the Dominican Republic, Russia, Nepal, Haiti, Botswana, Tanzania, Lesotho