Read about the work Jade McLaughlin '17 and Madellena Thornton '17 did at the Hospital Cayetano Heredia (HCH) in Lima, Peru, as Global Health Initiative interns.
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Victoria Chi '17 When we think about the mission of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)—to protect the health of Americans—we often think about addressing domestic health issues, or about coordinating emergency responses to global disease epidemics. Both of these are so vitally important. Yet in this increasingly interconnected world, equally important is the need to improve the health and well-being of people in countries across the globe, and to steadily build the public health capacity of all nations to respond to disease threats.
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"Some people ask: 'Why the word feminist? Why not just say you are a believer in human rights, or something like that?' Because that would be dishonest. Feminism is, of course, part of human rights in general—but to choose to use the vague expression human rights is to deny the specific and particular problem of gender. It would be a way of pretending that it was not women who have, for centuries, been excluded. It would be a way of denying that the problem of gender targets women." —Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
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by Kelly Everhart MS, MIV, Geisel School of Medicine Rwandan Ministry of Health
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by Kaira Lujan '16, Little Devices Lab, MIT
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