Dr. Selene Manga grew up in Cusco, Peru. After finishing medical school in 1991, she received a scholarship to study Tropical Medicine at John Hopkins University.

In Peru, she began working as a physician and clinician of tropical diseases. She became Executive Director of an flagship hospital in Peru Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia before becoming involved with Doctors Without Borders.

At Doctors Without Borders: She worked for one year inUkraine, running multi drug resistant tuberculosis programs and HIV preparedness programs in prisons at Donbass and Luganks. After, she travelled to Mozambique to help restart theDoctors Without Borders program for HIV prevention in sex workers that was destroyed in a natural disaster. Creating a “one stop shop” program in the Beira Province, providing HIV therapyand education, prevention, and testing, her team successfully recovered 90% of the program’s previous participants. After her work in Mozambique, she moved to Papua New Guinea where she served as the team leader for a program to fight one of the worst pandemics of multi drug resistant tuberculosis in the island.

After returning to Peru, she began working on the response to Covid 19, being team leader at the Disaster Relief Department atThe Ministry of Health. Recently she has been the Head of Mission Support at Médecins Sans Frontiers, again looking into mobile intensive care units all around the country, especially in those areas where vulnerable population are living. She achieved an international award by University of Rhode Island for her work testing tuberculosis with a new innovative test.

At Harvard University Recently 2021 she achieved a scholarship to study at Harvard School of Public Health at the TAKEMI program in International Health where her research is focused on analyzing the causes for a high rate of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis in Peru and proposing solutions. At Harvard she has made two grants, evaluating and developing innovative treatments for depression at Harvard Health Laboratory Initiative, become a facilitator at Peer Couching Initiative, published two papers, participate as speaker in several forums, seminars and symposiums.

Selene has been volunteering as the only MD for the Shipibo-Konibo de Cantagallo, accompanied by Penni Koo, a registered nurse from the states. Selene and Penni, advocate for the indigenous community who've been exiled out of their ancestral land in the Amazon by the government, ended up in a landfill, which they've made livable and beautiful thanks to their world famous traditional art.    Selene & Penni have joined forces with Wombs of Peace to try to support building a clinic there for the community, that has very basic life conditions where even drinking water is a challenge, let alone health.

Selene preserves Indigenous South-American network of traditional medicines and healing modalities. She is the executive director and founder of Green Hospital (in Quechua: Kusy Hampina Wasy), an indigenous community medicine school and Indigenous Medicine Center located in Quillabamba, La Convención, Cusco..