Seijiro Takahashi | Global Health Corps

Seijiro Takahashi

Seijiro

Co-fellow

Elyse Sandrine

Elyse Sandrine Ishimirwe

Placement Country: Rwanda
Title: Global Health Curriculum Development Officer
Health equity is a sustainable societal condition in which systemic oppression and social hegemony do not dictate one's life potential and right to access basic needs, which include but are not limited to high quality healthcare.

Seijiro (Seiji) Takahashi is from Orange County, California. He completed his A Levels in England and attended Earlham College in Indiana, where he studied sociology, anthropology, and biology. While at Earlham College, Seiji co-convened Earlham’s Students for a Free Tibet chapter, and co-organized a disaster relief trip following Superstorm Sandy. Seiji studied abroad in Dharamsala, India, where he volunteered with the Kunphen Center for Substance Abuse and with the Gu Chu Sum Movement of Tibet. He has worked in the Bakken oilfields of North Dakota, as a research and teaching assistant, and as an intern with Wellbody Alliance and Partners In Health, organizations that continue to provide Ebola response and health systems strengthening in Sierra Leone. Before joining GHC, Seiji received a master’s degree in medical anthropology and global health from Case Western Reserve University.