In the Face of Public Health’s Greatest Challenge Yet, American Health Workers Need Support
By Dr. Sriram Shamasunder, Director & Co-Founder UCSF HEAL Initiative and Heather Anderson, CEO of Global Health Corps America’s health workforce is in crisis—again. COVID-19 exposed deep fractures in our healthcare system and five years later instead of strengthening the foundation, the Trump Administration is taking a sledgehammer to it. Through executive orders slashing health […]
Bringing Leaders Together: U.S. Leadership Accelerator Fellows and Alumni Unite in D.C.
Global Health Corps convened the 2024-2025 U.S. Leadership Accelerator (USLA) fellows in Washington, D.C. for an in-person retreat, marking a pivotal moment of connection, reflection, and growth. This dynamic gathering was further enriched by the return of GHC’s U.S. Alumni Leadership Summit—our first since 2019—creating a powerful space for emerging and seasoned leaders to exchange […]
Global Health Corps Brings Rising Public Health Leaders to San Antonio
This week, San Antonio welcomed our 2023-2024 U.S. fellows for a transformative leadership retreat and networking event, fostering collaboration between emerging public health leaders and the city’s esteemed healthcare and business community. The retreat kicked off with a special panel discussion, “Unlocking Potential: Investing in Emerging Leaders to Transform Public Health,” hosted at Texas Biomedical […]
Bridging the Gap: GHC Malawi Alumni Deliver Critical Health Services to Underserved Communities
The Global Health Corps (GHC) Malawi alumni chapter mobilized their network and resources to bring life-saving healthcare to underserved communities. As part of GHC’s annual alumni-wide Month of Service initiative, Malawian alumni partnered with local health authorities to host a large-scale health screening event at a rural clinic in Lilongwe. Their goal: to provide 1,000 […]
Walking the Talk: GHC Fellows Champion Health as a Human Right in Rwanda
As the 2023-2024 Global Health Corps (GHC) fellowship cohort approaches the end of their transformative year, fellows across the globe are reflecting on their impact and culminating their experiences with final cohort projects. These projects serve as a testament to GHC’s belief that leadership is a catalyst for health equity, bringing together diverse stakeholders to […]
Rising to the Challenge: GHC Alumni Lead Cholera Response in Zambia
In the face of Zambia’s ongoing cholera outbreak, the Global Health Corps (GHC) Zambian alumni community swiftly mobilized to support affected communities and frontline health workers. Recognizing the urgency of the crisis, alumni launched the GHC Cholera Emergency Response, a grassroots initiative focused on public awareness, hygiene promotion, and direct resource distribution. Last week, alumni […]
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 […]