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Program Offerings

Our alumni program mobilizes the leadership capacity of our rising leaders to advance health equity. We provide access to essential resources and a life-long professional network to catalyze their career growth and amplify their impact, individually and collectively. 

GHC’s alumni program offerings deepen the foundational skills developed during the fellowship year and amplify impact in the three core areas of our Theory of Impact — developing effective leaders, influential leaders, and collaborative leaders.

Developing Effective Leaders Who Excel

Leadership & Management Trainings

Leadership & Management Trainings

Alumni participate in virtual and in-person trainings to build critical leadership and management skills for greater impact as they rise in their careers.

Key partners: McKinsey Academy, Africa Management Institute, and The BoardRoom Africa

Board Development

Board Development

Alumni hone their capacity to serve on Boards of Directors in global health, where their perspectives are often missing. They learn and hone board governance practices for effective management.

Key partner: Issroff Family Foundation

Social Enterprise Promotion

Social Enterprise Promotion

Alumni access seed funding, advice, peer-group coaching, and support to channel their entrepreneurial curiosity into piloting initiatives to improve community health outcomes.

Key partners: D-Prize, Expert Impact, World Connect and African Management Institute

Advisor Program &
Career Coaching

Advisor Program & Career Coaching

Alumni participate in targeted, short-term mentorship opportunities with experts in the field to address a specific timely challenge or grow in a desired professional area. They also engage in interactive webinars to deepen their professional growth throughout their careers.

Cultivating Voices for Influential Change

Amplifying Voices

Amplifying Voices

GHC trains, pitches, and supports alumni to raise their voices for social change. They speak on panels, present at major conferences, and publish in online and print outlets – including our AMPLIFY publication on Medium.

Outlets & Stages: Devex, NPR, Wired Next Gen, Think Global Health, Skoll World Forum, International Conference on Family Planning, Aspen Ideas: Health, and the Africa Health Agenda International Conference.

Advocacy Training &
Support Program

Advocacy Training & Support Program

Alumni strengthen skills to engage in direct advocacy to advance health equity, building on a foundation of advocacy skills developed during the fellowship program.

Key partner: Advocacy Accelerator

Write to Change the World Workshops

Write to Change the World Workshops

Alumni hone their ability to craft and pitch opinion editorial pieces to channel their passion and expertise into mobilizing a broader movement for health equity.

Key partner: The OpEd Project

Shift Happens Speaker Series

Shift Happens Speaker Series

Alumni participate in GHC's virtual event series alongside other leaders in global health to foster dialogue and learning on critical global health and social justice issues.

Recent topics: racial equity, communication during coronavirus, COVID-19 vaccine uptake, and contraception access amidst pandemics

Community Portal

Community Portal

Alumni connect to each other, share and access resources, solicit support and advice, and mobilize around initiatives via GHC’s digital community platform.

Fellow Recruitment & Selection

Fellow Recruitment & Selection

Alumni play a key role in every step of the months-long processes of recruiting and selecting incoming fellows each year, from writing op-eds to raise awareness for applications to interviewing semi-finalists.

Promoting Global Collaboration

Collective Action Coalitions

Collective Action Coalitions

Cohorts of alumni develop and implement initiatives rooted in human-centered design and collective action frameworks to meet pressing community needs. 

Key partner: IDEO.org

Current focus: COVID-19 in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the U.S., and Zambia

Alumni Chapters

Alumni Chapters

With support from GHC, leaders organize their fellow alumni to connect, learn, and collaborate on community building and health-related initiatives.

Current locations: Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, U.S., and Zambia

Community Mentorship

Community Mentorship

Alumni support and mentor current fellows during their fellowship and as they transition into the alumni program. Throughout the 18-month engagement alumni receive resources and support to develop their mentorship and coaching skills.

Leadership Learning Circles

Leadership Learning Circles

Alumni gather in peer-coaching groups led by alumni facilitators trained in peer-coaching techniques by public health career coaches.

Key partners: Shannon Salentine, MPH, PCC, CPCC — Leadership Coach and Facilitator; Dr. Maggwa Baker — Epidemiologist, Coach, and MBTI Practitioner

Networking Events

Networking Events

With GHC resources and staff support, alumni convene with global health experts and thought leaders within their regions to strengthen their networks for greater impact.

Leadership Summits

Leadership Summits

Alumni gather in key GHC regional hubs — East Africa, Southern Africa, and the Northeast in the U.S. — for immersive multi-day retreats that provide professional development and skills building sessions and opportunities to deepen connections within the GHC network.

GHC's sustained investment in our alumni amplifies
their impact on health systems.

They're leading efforts and collaborating with the GHC network to advance
health equity in their communities and around the world.

Meet Fatsani, Neil, Eliza, Natasha, & others.

Learn more about GHC's approach to
leadership development:

Our Alumni Program
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Global Health Corps is a leadership accelerator mobilizing a powerful network of health equity changemakers, 1200+ strong and growing. 

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