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Read Our Travel Story AllUpdatesVideosEvents “Between What is Common and What is Right.” by Kutha Banda, 2016–2017 Fellow As a child, I was often called inquisitive. Adults told me I had a “creative mind.” I remember bringing my friends together to perform plays, poems, and all sorts of activities at school. I wanted to try everything. […]
Rwanda Program Manager
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A Face in the Numbers
Numbers surround us and overwhelm us on a daily basis. From trying to calculate the exchange rate for finances to reviewing attendance numbers of outreaches and interventions, I often forget that each number has a person or commodity attached to it. Every participation sheet for an outreach represents real people and their stories. In my […]
Worry Not; These Things Don’t Matter
Since I joined the Global Health Corps fellowship six months ago, I have had time to reflect on my past and analyze the present, as I idealize what the future holds, especially in the short term, after the fellowship. I must say, it is never too early to have such thoughts. This is because the future […]
Community solutions: Membership-based community health financing and insurance program
Co-Authored by James Kaggwa & Rebecca Calderara 2014 – 2015 Co-fellows at Spark Microgrants As GHC Fellows at Spark Microgrants, we are working with five remote communities in […]
GHC Fellowship Escapade, My Reflection thus far…
When I was asked about why I joined Global Health Corps, I did not think twice to draw a picture of how the GHC fellowship presented a potential platform for me, an unmatched opportunity for a wonderful year of personal learning and growth, contributing to the efforts of the great community of advocates of social […]
Do You Measure Up? The Answer is Yes
Written by Jonathan Doucette, GHC Alum ’13 You’ve checked the GHC website for the third time today, despite the resolution you made to yourself to restrain from pressing that looming “refresh button” mocking you in the top left-hand corner of your browser. Your eyes are glossed over and itchy. Surely you must’ve missed something: a necessary requirement you […]
The First Quarter: 128 Brains are Better than One!
Fall brings with it the excitement of new beginnings and a renewed sense of purpose, and we are certainly feeling that energy at GHC! Each weekend over the past 6 weeks, our 128 current fellows joined together in each of our placement countries for their first GHC Quarterly Retreat. This is the first time our fellows […]
The Power of Stories and Advocacy
One of GHC’s leadership practices – a skill we seek when recruiting, selecting, and training GHC fellows – is the ability to inspire and mobilize others in the pursuit of health equity. For our fellows to have the maximum impact on the health of the communities they serve, both during and after their GHC placements, […]
Resiliency and Vulnerability in Global Health Leadership
Over the past five years, we’ve learned that to effectively serve others and make an impact, global health leaders must engage in self-reflection and self-care. We are keeping those lessons in mind as we head into our annual Closing Retreat tomorrow with our outgoing class of 2013-2014 fellows who have just finished up their year […]