Clara Fredy and Brendan Shayo, Tanzanian medical students from Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, spent six weeks at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire, learning about clinical practices in Infectious Disease and Emergency Medicine.
Tecla Coleman MPH’21, CGHE Program Manager, attended the UN Climate Change Conference (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan, last November. Ms. Coleman participated in a stakeholder dinner series with high-level leaders from around the world focused on climate change, regenerative agriculture, and land use.
Geisel student Alexandra (Alex) Conway MED’25, shares about her clinical elective this past November in Chongqing, China.
Alyssa Fayerman MED’27 explores inter-staff communication at at Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics in Concord, New Hampshire as part of a global health equity project funded by the Center for Global Health Equity.
Geisel medical student Omar Sajjad MED ’27 presented a poster at the first-ever annual Geisel School of Medicine and Dartmouth Health Biomedical Research Day, held September 18, 2024, at Dartmouth Health in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Ifrah Ahmed ‘23 and Hannah Adams ‘23, TDI graduates, were the first MPH students funded by the Center for Global Health Equity to participate in a Co-designed Community-based (CCI) internship abroad. Under the leadership and guidance of Geisel faculty member and Dartmouth alum Dr. Rebecca Laird MED’01, TDI’21, a Board-certified internist and cardiologist, Ifrah and Hannah completed a CCI internship in Kigali, Rwanda, in March 2023.
CGHE Director Dr. Lisa V. Adams invited her former mentees and now colleagues, Drs. Maryam Amour MPH’15 and Dr. Sirey Zhang MED’24 to co-author a review article on “the critical need for equitable collaborations to uphold robust and enduring pediatric global health programs to improve child health worldwide.”
Amal Cheema MED’24, recent graduate of Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, reflects on the six weeks she spent completing a global health elective in January-February 2024 at Rwanda’s main teaching hospital Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali (CHUK).
India Burdon Dasbach MED’25 shares her memorable experience in the James Strickler Clinical Elective in Global Health exchange program in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Tshibambe Nathanael Tshimbombu MED’24, served as lead, Geisel student author of two manuscripts bolstering health and healthcare in his home country of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which have been impacted by continuous military conflicts and political instability, as he points out.
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