The Bridge Builder
Alumna Precious Mutoru forges strategic partnerships across Uganda’s public and private sectors to create sustainable sexual and reproductive health systems Strengthening sexual and reproductive health in Uganda means bringing everyone to the table: government ministries, private sector innovators, development partners, and the communities themselves. Precious Mutoru has made this collaborative vision her mandate. As Senior […]
Removing Menstrual Health Barriers for Zambian Girls
Menstrual health is a persistent equity gap in Zambia. A significant share of adolescent girls lack consistent access to sanitary products, and the consequences show up in school attendance data, health outcomes, and the confidence with which young women move through the world. For girls with disabilities, those barriers are compounded in ways that standard […]
Menstrual and Mental Health Education in Uganda
In Uganda, menstruation ends schooling for more girls than most education data captures. Irregular access to sanitary products, inadequate facilities, and a pervasive silence around periods mean that monthly, quietly, girls miss class. Over time, those absences accumulate and for some, they don’t come back. The 2025-2026 Ugandan cohort of GHC’s Africa Leadership Accelerator designed […]
Driving HPV Awareness and Vaccination in Kawale
Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer death among women in Malawi. It is also largely preventable. To address this gap, GHC’s 2025-2026 Africa Leadership Accelerator cohort in Malawi used their cohort stretch project as an opportunity to design and lead a community-based HPV awareness and vaccination campaign in Kawale, Lilongwe, working alongside the […]
Seizing an Opportunity: Developing Climate x Health Leadership in Africa
Since late 2025, Southern Africa has been battered by a relentless chain of climate shocks. Devastating floods swept through Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, and Angola between December and January, killing at least 280 people and affecting nearly a million more. Tropical Cyclone Gezani followed in February, compounding the destruction before communities had any chance to recover. […]
The Digital Transformer
Alum Chisha Chola harnesses AI and digital tools to transform public health communications across Southern Africa. Balancing field visits, strategic meetings, and multiple content streams left Chisha Chola facing a common reality in public health work: burnout from manual processes and fragmented communication systems. His response was to ask two questions that would reshape his approach to health […]
The Legacy Builder
Bryan Murphy Eustis transforms his own catalytic fellowship experience into sustained investment in emerging public health leaders. When Bryan reflects on his time as a Global Health Corps fellow back in 2011, one word comes up repeatedly: transformative. “Global Health Corps was such a profound experience in my life—a launching pad to dedicating my career […]
Leadership Built to Last: GHC’s 2025 Annual Report is Now Live!
Across the public and global health sector, 2025 brought setbacks that challenged even the most resilient teams: funding shortages, stop-work orders, weakened institutions, and growing mistrust. Yet GHC leaders continue to stay the course, grounding themselves in a long-view commitment to health equity and to one another. Reflections from Our CEO Sixteen years ago, Global Health Corps (GHC) was founded […]
Why Leadership Development Is HIV Prevention
Kate Segal doesn’t remember the exact moment she stopped thinking of leadership as something loud and commanding. But she knows where the shift started. During her year as a Global Health Corps fellow in 2017-2018, she realized that her quiet strength, the way she built relationships and earned trust, was its own form of leadership. […]
64 Emerging Leaders, Two Cohorts, One Movement for Health Equity: Introducing our 2025-2026 Leadership Accelerator Cohorts
On September 11th, Global Health Corps (GHC) launched its 2025–2026 Leadership Accelerators in Africa and the United States. Across two separate program kick-offs, 64 fellows—32 in Africa and 32 in the U.S.—began their leadership journeys. Though GHC’s Leadership Accelerators are distinct programs, they share a common purpose: equipping emerging health leaders with the skills, networks, and resilience […]