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 […]
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 […]
Compassion in Action: GHC Hosts Virtual Gathering for National Compassionate Leadership Week
In honor of National Compassionate Leadership Week, Global Health Corps (GHC), in partnership with the TramutoPorter Foundation and Lwala Community Alliance, hosted a powerful virtual conversation exploring what it means to lead with compassion in global health. The gathering brought together leaders from across the sector to reflect and reimagine how empathy, humanity, and courage […]
Global Health Corps’ 2025-2026 U.S. Leadership Accelerator Retreat at Pegasus Park in Dallas
Global Health Corps (GHC) is bringing a Leadership Retreat for its 2025-2026 cohort of U.S. Leadership Accelerator (USLA) fellows to Pegasus Park in Dallas, made possible by long-time funder Lyda Hill Philanthropies. Why Dallas, Why NowThe DFW region boasts a world-class healthcare infrastructure and one of the nation’s fastest-growing job markets, but also faces persistent […]
Youth Leading the Charge: GHC Zambia Alumni Spotlight Mental Health at 3rd Annual Symposium
On June 14th, the Global Health Corps (GHC) Zambia alumni chapter hosted the third annual Mental Health Symposium—an event that’s quickly becoming a cornerstone of youth-led advocacy in Zambia. With each passing year, the symposium grows louder, more intentional, and more deeply rooted in the urgent call to prioritize mental health as an essential part […]
Alumni Spotlight: Nicole Bennett on Data, Power, and Global Solidarity
This month, we’re celebrating the leadership of 2017-2018 U.S. alum Nicole Bennett, a powerful voice working at the intersection of data, migration, and justice. Now a PhD candidate in Geography at Indiana University, Nicole is digging deep into how digital systems, from biometric databases to AI tools, shape governance, mobility, and everyday life in the […]
Doubling Down on Leadership: Adtalem Global Education Foundation Renews Support for GHC’s U.S. Leadership Accelerator
The U.S. public health workforce is facing extraordinary pressure. From political interference and funding cuts to widespread burnout and workforce shortages, early-career public health professionals are entering the field at one of the most challenging times in recent history. Yet with challenge comes opportunity—and at Global Health Corps (GHC), we see this moment as a […]
Rooted in Purpose, Ready to Lead: U.S. Fellows Transition to Alumni Community
Last week, Global Health Corps brought together the 2024-2025 cohort of U.S. Leadership Accelerator fellows in Atlanta for an energizing multi-day retreat to celebrate the end of their fellowship. Against the backdrop of national uncertainty in public health funding and increasing challenges facing marginalized communities, this retreat served as a bold reminder of what is […]