GHC Co-Founder Barbara Bush Receives the 2018 Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship.
Global Health Corps strives to strengthen and transform health systems through a network of emerging leaders who take a systems approach to inspecting and disrupting the status quo. Global Health Corps recruits diverse young professionals and places them into existing health organizations and government agencies in Eastern and Southern Africa and the United States to […]
2021-2022 GHC Fellows Going to the Frontlines
Dear friend, Today, we’re thrilled to introduce you to the 2021-2022 Global Health Corps fellows: 40 bold, young changemakers from Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, and Zambia. The need to support these leaders is urgent — the communities that they and many of our GHC team members and alumni call home are combating a third wave of COVID-19. They’re fighting a 44% spike in […]
People Power Town Hall with GHC + The Skoll Foundation
Town Hall: People Power — Developing Health Equity Leaders to Advance Systems Change Tuesday, May 18th on Zoom 9-10am PST | 12-1pm EST | 6-7pm CAT | 7-8pm EAT Systems leaders are not born — they’re intentionally developed at every level of their careers through skill building, mentorship, reflection, and being part of a collaborative network. Yet in global […]
If a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, What’s a Selfie Worth?
This is a co-authored post by Lisa Shawcroft and Sruthi Chandrasekaran, 2014-2015 co-fellows at Marie Stopes International in Washington, D.C. Global Health Corps is a fellowship program that aims to create the next generation of global health leaders. The program model pairs two fellows—one national and one international—within a placement organization and gives them tools […]
Burundi Slides Backwards, PMC-Burundi Moves Forward
BURLINGTON, VERMONT — By GDP per capita, among 193 United Nations members, Burundi is the second poorest country on the planet (1). It is small, about the size of Maryland or two-thirds the size of Switzerland. And it is landlocked, on the shores of Lake Tanganyika sharing borders with Rwanda, Tanzania, and the Democratic Republic […]
Career Shifting
Being a Global Health Corps fellow does not require you to have come from a health background or have these huge experiences, but rather your passion and your commitment towards achieving your dream to fight for social justice. You can come from math, physics, history or any other background and still be able to shift […]
It’s Not That Simple…
There are few tools more powerful in development work than the art of listening. However, moving one step further and channeling this tool through rigorous research offers us the unique opportunity to see inside complex sets of issues. Through our research, we are able to capture reality in a way that no amount of informal […]
The Potential Harms in Helping Others
Several weeks ago, my driver’s license fell out of my pocket during a rainy outreach shift with HIPS, a harm reduction organization that works with injection drug users, sex workers, and their communities in Washington, D.C. I assumed that it was lost forever to the storm drains of D.C., until I received a call from […]
Access to care through self-care
Spring has come and I couldn’t be happier! This winter I was sick more times than I have been during the last three years. Where I would have been down briefly once a year during the ‘flu-season’, I was pretty much down with something for the entire three to four months of winter. Coming from […]
Storytelling as Sustainable Development
Tucked away on the outskirts of Bujumbura, the capital of Burundi, lies a neighbourhood called Kinama. Like many towns in Bujumbura’s urban center known as Bujumbura Mairie, it is easy to be struck by how everything bustles with movement with people hawking peanuts and eggs to make small cash to get by, kids enjoying spontaneous […]