Charlotte Bourdillon | Global Health Corps

Charlotte Bourdillon

Charlotte

Co-fellow

Jean Luc

Jean Luc Ugirashebuja

Placement Country: Rwanda
Title: Maternal and Child Health Fellow
I believe in and am passionate about the capacity for interdisciplinary collaboration and preexisting community strengths that can lay the groundwork for creative, evidence-based solutions to intransigent public health problems.

Charlotte is from Indianapolis, Indiana. She majored in Community Health and International Relations at Tufts University. While in school, she collaborated on a variety of immigrant and refugee outreach projects, in addition to participating in international fieldwork that included assessing water and sanitation development projects in Nepal, interning with an indigenous Chilean women's weaving cooperative, and conducting focus group research for a student maternal health initiative in Balan, Haiti. Additionally, Charlotte interned at Physicians for Human Rights, where she contributed background research for a report on human rights violations in Burma. After graduating, Charlotte participated in a fellowship with the Kakeyna Center for Excellence (KCE), where she managed in-country operations for an anti-FGM and anti-early marriage project and their flagship girls’ boarding school in rural Kenya. Before joining GHC, she completed a post-baccalaureate premedical program at American University in Washington, D.C. In addition to her studies at American University, Charlotte volunteered with the Mary's Center to launch a Centering Pregnancy prenatal program for immigrant women. Charlotte loves a good culinary adventure and learning new languages.