Professional Development: Exercising My Green Thumb
One of the benefits of being a Global Health Corps fellow is the ability to pursue professional development opportunities outside of our normal scope of work. Across the fellow class, professional goals and interests take many shapes and forms and, therefore, our respective professional development endeavors often look very different. Some fellows travel for conferences, […]
Striving to be better: Global food loss and waste
It’s estimated that by 2050, the world’s population will reach 9 billion, and there has been a lot of talk about how all of those people are going to manage to feed themselves. It’s a daunting prospect, to be sure, especially when we consider that approximately 805 million people around the globe already face chronic […]
Hidden Hunger in a Theoretical Land of Plenty
Eat a balanced diet! Growing up, and indeed, well into adolescence and adulthood, this has been a message I’ve heard from a number of angles (my mother, cartoon characters, and official guidelines, to name but a few). While great advice, theoretically, it can be hard, practically, to know exactly what this means. Even harder still […]