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  • Working with VOICE 4 Girls in India

    December 6, 2014

    Eliana Piper '14 and Rachel Funk '14 VOICE 4 Girls, Hyderabad, India Eliana Piper '14 and Rachel Funk '14 both did internships with VOICE 4 Girls, a nonprofit based in Hyderabad, India, that equips girls to take charge of their futures by teaching marginalized girls general life skills, basic health and safety knowledge, and spoken English. The camps are fun and girl-focused and give campers tools to break cycles of social and economic inequality.

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  • Rhodes Scholar is Lombard Public Service Fellow

    November 11, 2014
    Miriam Kilimo

    Miriam Jerotich Kilimo '14 of Nairobi, Kenya, has been named a Rhodes Scholar for 2015—the 76th Rhodes Scholar in Dartmouth's history. Miriam was awarded a Lombard Public Service Fellowship this year by the Dickey Center and the Tucker Foundation for work with the Africa Coordinating Center for the Abandonment of Female Genital Mutilation (ACCAF). She is currently based at the University of Nairobi in Kenya. She is supporting the organization's efforts to sensitive different communities about the health and socio-economic effects associated with the practice.

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  • A Team Effort in Tanzania

    September 29, 2014
    dardar program

    Fall 2014 | Dartmouth Medicine Read about the experience of Tanzanian Issac Maro, MD, MPH ('09) in the DarDar medical student exchange program at the Geisel Medical School. Maro worked with Ford von Reyn, MD, director of the DarDar Health Study and associate director Richard Waddell, MD. He also collaborated with Lisa Adams, MD, associate dean for global health and director of the Dickey Center's Global Health Initiative, to create a pediatric HIV clinic that serves children in Dar es Salaam.

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  • A New Global Health Partnership in Vietnam

    September 4, 2014

    The Dickey Center's Global Health Initiative has been actively developing a rich portfolio of partnerships with the twin aims of expanding student engagement and research collaboration. This summer GHI Program Manager, Jessica Friedman, journeyed to Hanoi, Vietnam to meet partners at Population Health and Development (PHAD) to conduct a site assessment and experience first-hand the impact of the research studies three students had been working on that summer.

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  • Looking Back: Dartmouth Seniors Reflect on Transformational Dickey Center Experiences

    September 1, 2014

    by Alexander A. Lopez '15 Photo: Evan Diamond '13, Mahmud Johnson '13, Lars Blackmore As Dartmouth says goodbye to the Class of 2013, the Dickey Center asked seniors to reflect on the global learning that informed their passions, interests, and career paths. The following stories represent a sampling of the many amazing undergraduates that the Dickey Center has worked with over the past four years. Evan Diamond '13:  Transforming Education and the Environment through Art 

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