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 […]
The GHC Secret Family Recipe
Since I know you have been salivating in anticipation of enjoying your very own GHC experience, I have taken it upon myself to spill the beans about this famous, secret family recipe. For too long, the proud GHC family has developed young change makers in the global health field without revealing the special and loving […]
What Drives Me? My Family Curse
Kerala, India in the 1920s. My grandmother was giving birth in what I can only imagine was a hot and unventilated birthing room with low-skilled attendants performing her blood transfusion. That day doomed our family. Fast forward 65 years to the mid-1980s. My father, a pediatrician working in Saudi Arabia, was the youngest of seven […]
Promoting public health care equity and access
Public health care access and affordability is a civic right that every citizen is owed to enjoy unconditionally. However often social, economic, political and environmental barriers deter individuals from exercising this right. One billion people world over survive on less than $1.25 a day, making them unable to afford their health care needs and eventually […]