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Academic Programs

Global Health

Student Internships

Students from the Global Health Division have gone on to work with a variety of national, international and non-governmental private voluntary agencies. These organizations include: Academy for Educational Development, John Snow, Inc., Pan American Health Organization, UNICEF, United Nations Development Program (UNDP), United States Agency for International Development (USAID), United States State Department, and WHO (Geneva, Copenhagen, New Delhi). Global Health faculty and staff work closely with first year students to identify and secure positions.

Student Internships – 2006:

  • University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
  • WHO, Venice
  • WHO, Bhutan
  • WHO, Geneva
  • UNICEF, New York City
  • UNICEF, Panama City
  • Pan American Health Organization, Washington, D.C.
  • UNAIDS, Swaziland
  • Liverpool Voluntary Counseling and Testing for the Deaf, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Planned Parenthood, Johannesburg, South Africa
  • Unilever, Englewood, New Jersey
  • Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Yale/Clinton Foundation Ethiopia Hospital Management Initiative, New Haven, Connecticut
  • Family Planning Project, China

Student Internships – 2005:

  • United Nations, New York, USA, India. Focus: Analysis of discrepancies in world disabilities statistics
  • UNICEF – Panama, Focus: HIV/AIDS
  • Narine Movsesyan, Armenia. Focus: Project on Better Tobacco Control in Armenia
  • FOCAP, The Cameroon Psychology Forum. Focus: Independent Research on Faith-based Organizations’ Prevention Response to HIV/AIDS in Yaounde, Cameroon
  • China Center for Disease Control, China/USA. Focus: Conducted focus group discussions and interviews with Chinese families living in rural China (Sahgdong Province), Urban China (Beijing), and the U.S. (New York) to determine reasons for intergenerational changes in dietary patterns and obesity in different settings.
  • UNICEF, Florence, Italy. Focus: Child poverty policy analysis and development.
  • United Nations, Nepal. Focus: Supported development of a Health Information System by working with national and refugee staff to ensure that people are were properly trained and understood the importance of proper health information systems.
  • National School of Public Health, Greece.  Focus:  Studied datasets concerning prostitution in Greece, with a small supplemental survey about HIV/AIDS in sex workers.
  • WHO, Geneva, Switzerland. Focus on researching global variability in the measured prevalence of the disabled.
  • Yale/CAPCoD Project, Yale University.  Focus:  Managed multiple global pilot projects funded by Oxford Health Alliance 2020.
  • Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee, Bangladesh.  Focus:  Conducted research on issues related to chronic poverty and health.