The Expert in Health Care Reform… Theoretically.
My title at my GHC placement is the ‘policy assistant.’ I applied to this position because I wanted to see what it would be like to affect change for a large number of people through policy changes, instead of having a smaller, though no less important, reach through on the ground community work. I really […]
Rural Rwanda: take a look
Health Poverty Action principally works in Nyaruguru district, a remote and hard-to-reach region of Rwanda much in need of social services and improved infrastructures. In this short video, I present Kibeho, a small town in Nyaruguru district with a fascinating history of war and religion and a promising future.
So The World May Hear…
Uganda is home to over 10,000 registered NGO’s according to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. There seems to be an NGO or CBO to cover every imaginable niche in healthcare, and deciding what area to put your energy into is a bit overwhelming. Fortunately GHC tends to nudge us in the right direction, offering opportunities […]
Designing Distance Learning for the Resource-Limited Setting
Earlier in the year, some of my colleagues and I began taking an online course on statistical analysis and epidemiology from edX. edX is an online learning platform that provides a plethora of courses from universities throughout the world on various topics, ranging from public health to computer science. I started the course, eager to […]
Something To Talk About
Imagine knowing a possible solution to some great challenge that you feel is so easy to implement. Would you keep that knowledge to yourself? We all have our passions in global health, and we all know that solutions are in grasp, if only we can overcome barriers such as lack of resources or poor health […]
“It’s not what you call me, but what I answer to.”
We recently had our mid year retreat — 3 fabulous days of intense learning, knowledge sharing, cocktail drinking, networking, team building, perfect still harbor style reflection, discernment and introspection and just general global health leadership goodness. All in all, a perfect public healthy type retreat. The theme of this retreat in particular allowed me to […]
Evaluation Made Trendy: A View from the Ground
A friend recently sent me an article announcing the new field of impact evaluation for development. Five minutes later, another email pops up in my inbox: Evaluation is a top trend for 2013. Every week there are new magazine series, global conferences, books, and nonprofits devoted to measuring impact. Evaluation it is. As a Monitoring […]
Why Better Health is a Paramount Need in Southern Africa
Many people in Southern Africa rely on the talents and skills they have learned over the years from their parents and grandparents to thrive and provide a livelihood for themselves and their families. Although having these skills is considered a norm in our African communities, very few people comprehend that such skill-sets are a beneficial necessity for […]
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Role Reversal
One of the things that first attracted me to the Global Health Corps was its partner model in which each fellow is placed with a partner fellow serving in the same organization, creating a fellowship team composed of one international fellow and one in-country fellow. As an American going to work in Malawi, I initially […]