Tracking my global health impact
I’ve been at my fellowship placement in Lusaka for nearly five weeks, and there is a consistent theme that comes up in every meeting, assignment, and conversation we have: impact. My co-workers and I are constantly asking ourselves: What is our impact? How do we measure it? And, perhaps most importantly, how do we make […]
Visiting the Kilembe Mines Hospital – My First Field Visit in Uganda
As a new ’13-’14 fellow with GHC, I arrived in Kasese, Western Uganda just about a month ago. Along with 3 other fellows, I work at Action for Community Development (ACODEV), an NGO focused on HIV/AIDS, human rights, and reproductive/child health. At ACODEV, the philosophy is simple: we believe in power, ingenuity, and the potential […]
Y’all, that was awesome!
It’s been a month since I left our Global Health Corps training institute at Yale, and I still have trouble describing the experience to my family and friends. It is really difficult to talk about without coming up with trite, meaningless phrases: “It was so wonderful.” “It was so inspiring.” “I met so many incredibly fascinating […]
Health and Technology, 1 app at a time.
7 weeks before I was scheduled to leave my former job and embark on my Global Health Corp Fellowship, I undertook a seemingly impossible task: to have students at my Health Sciences University, with no prior programming and/or systems design experience, design a mobile app. But deep inside me, I knew we would never pull […]
Starting off
05 August 2013 It’s a little early to be adding to the blog, I know, but everything changes so quickly when you are starting a new job, living in a new place, and surrounded by new people. So, I thought I would take advantage of my fully charged computer, and my first electricity blackout at […]
The Inspiration
In most of my childhood memories, there’s always been a single story about how to acquire HIV – promiscuous sex. Yet when I signed up to become a Global Health Corps fellow, i had no idea how, within a matter of months, this story would be changed. With a University degree, its ample to say […]
MY PERSONAL NARRATIVE-The turning point of my life
“Every face tells a story” so goes the saying. However, it takes some time for someone to tell the correct story from the face he/she sees. When I first saw and met Ken Montgomery in July 2001, I had no correct story to read from his face. My friends and I saw him as just […]
How to Discover Your Life Purpose
One of the things that have been challenging for me over the years is discovering myself; who I am , what I am meant to be, what my life purpose is and how to accomplish it. Often times I’ve heard from influential people around me, be it at school, at work, at church or at […]
The Journey
I love bread! Whenever someone asks me whats my favourite food, I am always quick to say rice and beans – but the truth is that when I am eating bread, I realize – wow, this is my best food (of course, I feel it would be weird to say its my best food…) and […]
A Carnivore in the Garden
My kill count for this year stands well over a baker’s dozen. It’s a number that even Weebay, Snoop, and the other top muscle on The Wire would be proud to claim. Of course, I’m not talking about humans, but rather chickens, ducks, a goat, and two pigs. And, I’m not protecting the territory of Avon Barksdale or […]