Today, we officially launched the fifth class of Global Health Corps Fellows at our 2013 Training Institute at Yale University! We’re so excited to welcome this global cohort of emerging leaders and celebrate a major milestone in Global Health Corps’ growth as an organization. Since 2009, Global Health Corps has grown over 450% and placed 322 fellows to serve with non-profit organizations and government agencies focused on healthcare delivery. The global movement for health equity is growing and we’re happy to be a part of it!
These 106 outstanding young leaders were chosen from almost 4,000 applicants. They will be serving with 44 partner organizations in Burundi, Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, and the United States. They come from 16 different countries, speak 29 languages, and represent over 45 fields of expertise. They are architects, doctors, computer scientists, pharmacists, writers, engineers, singers and more! To read more about our amazing fellows, check out their bios!
Over the course of the next two weeks, the fellows will get to know each other and prepare for the year ahead through professional development workshops, reflection and interior formation exercises led by our partners at Still Harbor, and leadership trainings. We’re thrilled to welcome leaders from around the world to speak to the fellows about topics ranging from global health and social justice to advocacy, journalism, design thinking and innovation. This year’s speakers include:
• Noerine Kaleeba, Executive Director of TASO
• Agnes Binagwaho, Rwanda’s Minister of Health
• Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Robert Kaplan, Professor at Harvard Business School and co-chairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
• Cheryl Dorsey, Executive Director of Echoing Green
• Scott Belsky, CEO and co-founder of Behance
• Paul Ellingstad, Partnership and Program Development Director, HP Sustainability & Social Innovation
• Shawna Slack, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Genesis Advisers
• Dr. Paula Gutlove is Professor of Negotiation and Conflict Management Practice at the Simmons College School of Management
• Jackson Hungu is the Deputy Country Director for Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Kenya
• Karen Curley, Consultant and Executive Coach
• Teddy Ruge, Co-founder of Project Diaspora
• Jill Filipovic, Editor of Feministe, Journalist and Consultant
• David Gold, Founder and Principal at Global Health Strategies
• Eric Bing, Director of Global Health at George W. Bush Institute
• Sharon Rudy, Director, Global Health Fellows Program at Public Health Institute
• Cal Bruns, Founder, CEO, and Chief Innovationist for of Matchboxology
• Betsy Bradley, Director for the Global Health Initiative and the Global Health Leadership Institute at Yale
• Jean Bosco Niyonzima, Physician and Medical Director for Last Mile Health
• Mark Schoofs, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and Senior Editor at ProPublica
• Phill Wilson, Founder and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute
• Michael Skonieczny, Director of Yale Global Leadership Institute
After Training, fellows will depart to their placement country for a weeklong in-country orientation with the 2012-2013 class of fellows!
Please join us in welcoming the new class into the GHC community. Be sure to follow our Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram accounts for live updates throughout the two weeks!