Fellowship Benefits & Logistics
Africa Fellowship Benefits & Logistics Introduction In addition to the intensive leadership development and professional growth that the fellowship offers, the Global Health Corps fellowship includes: Living stipend Professional development funds Completion award Housing Health Insurance Travel costs covered to and from GHC training and retreats Visa/Work permit GHC arranges several logistical details on fellows’ […]
Fellowship Application Preview
Africa Fellowship Application Preview Potential applicants for GHC’s Africa-based fellowship program — read on to learn what you can expect in our forthcoming application opening December 1, 2022. This application preview is for the 2024-2025 Africa fellowship which will begin in July 2024 and end in July 2025. Note that the actual online application may […]
Africa Fellowship FAQs
Africa Fellowship FAQs Considering applying to be a GHC fellow? Here are answers to the most commonly asked questions about joining our community of leaders. GHC Africa Fellowship Application Process Video Tutorial – Starting and Completing Your Application This video tutorial reflects the 2024-2025 fellowship application. To watch the tutorial, click here. @1:06 – Starting […]
Other Opportunities
Other Opportunities Fellowships & Internships: Acumen Fund’s Global & East Africa Fellowships: For international candidates with 3-7 years of experience. Albert Schweitzer Fellowship: Graduate students are partnered with community-based health organizations for a yearlong service project designed to identify and address an unmet health need. APHA Database: American Public Health Association’s Fellowship, Internship and Awards […]
Careers at GHC
Join the GHC Team We’re looking for leaders who believe in the power of leadership to join our team and build the movement for health equity. At Global Health Corps (GHC), we are united by the belief that health is a human right. GHC is committed to mobilizing a new generation of leaders relentless in […]
Apply for the Africa Fellowship
Apply for the Africa Fellowship GHC welcomes young professionals from Burundi, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to apply for paid 13 month fellowships with health organizations in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. Work on the front lines of global health and develop your leadership skills. GHC […]
What makes a person who is in a profession so capable of doing good things to another human being become so rude?
As this is my first time blogging, I seriously did not know what to blog about or how to go about it. I was so nervous a few days ago when I realized that I had only a few days left until I was to submit my first blog. One night as I was trying […]
The trouble with incentives
“You know, we do not come because [another organization] gives us money to attend meetings,” a health worker told me bluntly as I waited for the health center’s workers to trickle into Millennium Villages Project’s monthly one-hour quality improvement meeting. Part of the area that Uganda’s Millennium Villages Project serves is saturated with NGOs: Elizabeth […]
Improving Patient Care, One Employee at a Time
Recently, my fellow GHC cohorts in Malawi launched the #health2me photo campaign to promote global health and GHC in Malawi, and to encourage people to think beyond traditional understandings of health. As I considered what health meant to me – well-being, happiness, self-sufficiency, peace of mind, and so on – I settled on the idea […]
Does health system reform in the US also require reform outside of health care?
Nearly two years ago, I attended a forum about the United States’ health reform at the University of Tokyo. Among the participants were American public health officials, professors and medical students. We were discussing the reasons why the United States’ health system is much more expensive than in other countries. For instance, among all OECD […]