Tackling Mental Health Issues from the Ground Up
This is a post by So Yoon Sim, 2014-2015 Research and Policy Fellow at Grameen PrimaCare in New York City. According to National Institute of Mental Health, one in four adults in the United States—approximately 61.5 million Americans—experience mental illness, and one in 17—about 13.6 million—live with a serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, major depression […]
If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, What’s a Selfie Worth?
Global Health Corps is a fellowship program that aims to create the next generation of global health leaders. The program model pairs two fellows — one national and one international — within a placement organization and gives them tools and supports them to develop into confident professionals. While certain things during our fellowship were beyond our control, we knew […]
If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, What’s a Selfie Worth?
This is a co-authored post by Lisa Shawcroft and Sruthi Chandrasekaran, 2014-2015 co-fellows at Marie Stopes International in Washington, D.C. Global Health Corps is a fellowship program that aims to create the next generation of global health leaders. The program model pairs two fellows—one national and one international—within a placement organization and gives them tools […]
My Thoughts on Obstetric Fistula
I once read somewhere that obstetric fistula was eliminated in the United States of America in the early 20th century. Now this is the 21st century and obstetric fistula continues to be a problem in many African countries including Malawi. Firstly let me tell you all what obstetric fistula is. This condition is regarded as […]
More than Midwives and Medicines: Educating Communities in Malawi with the Safe Motherhood Initiative
Malawi, a landlocked country in southern Africa, has one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world. However, the country has seen a notable decline of deaths resulting from complications during childbirth. Leadership at the district levels and political will of government leaders was key, along with educating communities on family planning, maternal […]
An American’s CRASH Course in the Malawian Healthcare System
12 June 2015. It was 9:00am and I sat there exhausted in the lobby of Beit Cure International (BCI) Hospital – supposedly one of the best hospitals in Malawi. I arrived late the previous night after traveling five hours on a pot-holed and accident-ridden highway from Lilongwe, the capital city to Blantyre. This trip was an […]
“Why Don’t Men Menstruate?” Sexual Health Education as a Human Right
As Global Health Corps fellows, we believe health is a human right. Coming into GHC, I certainly believed this, but also felt as though calling something a “human right” has become a “sexy” buzzword trend. Sometimes the word seems so quotidian that almost everything is becoming valued as a human right. I share an office, […]
The Gender based violence monster in our nation!!!
June 4th 2012, 9: 40 PM: Thursday night the phone rings, a voice answers ‘Hello this is 990 how can I help you’ ‘Please help me I can’t do this anymore he did it again please please help me he’ll kill me if I don’t get out of this’ The voice spells desperation a cry […]
MDGs vs SDGs — a first basic impression
While in a discussion with other fellows within one of the GHC retreats, I thought about the first impression people had on the similarities or the differences between the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Here is my first impression and my thoughts about it: The SDGs framework is becoming more […]
The Lost Earring
The lights from the buildings scattered up and down the street illuminated my path. Kigali is known to be a fairly safe city, with armed security and soldiers at various intersections. It can be a bit nerve racking seeing a shadow emerge with a gun, but at the same time it allows one to feel […]