Global Health Corps
Model & Strategy
Global Health Corps improves the quality of healthcare services for the poor and mobilizes a global community of young leaders to build a movement for health equity. In particular, they address the unjust and unsustainable disparity in health outcomes and healthcare access that exists today between the world’s rich and the world’s poor.
Global Health Corps connects outstanding young leaders from the US and developing countries in high-impact, skills-based yearlong fellowships at organizations working for global health equity. Through this work, GHC trains, supports, mentors and connects fellows to create a broad-based network of new inspired leaders in global health.
Barbara Bush, Global Health Corps President, worked for Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Capetown, South Africa and interned for UNICEF in Botswana before working for two years in Educational Programming at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. She has traveled extensively with the UN World Food Programme, focusing on the importance of nutrition in ARV treatment. Barbara is a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee and is on the Board of Directors for Covenant House International. She is a regular contributor to the UK magazine POP. Barbara Bush graduated from Yale University with a degree in Humanities in 2004.
IMPACT
GHC has trained nearly 1,000 young leaders since 2009, representing 40 nationalities and a multitude of backgrounds, from economists and designers to researchers and software engineers.
Following the fellowship, 95% of GHC alums continue to work on global health and social justice issues. 40% receive offers at their placements, and 88% of African fellows continue to work in Africa following the fellowship.
Global Health Corps News
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Melinda Gates Interviews Barbara Bush on Her No. 1 Priority...HealthcareRecently, Melinda Gates sat down with DRK Entrepreneur, Barbara Bush, to discuss what inspired her to launch Global Health Corps, the women who have contributed to…Apr 2017 -
A Millennial Named BushBarbara Bush joined her father, George W. Bush, on a 2003 trip to Africa and was staggered by the human toll of AIDS in Uganda.…Sep 2015 -
Meet the Non-MDs Solving Systemic Heath Care Problems for Global Health CorpsGlobal Health Corps just sent its latest cohort of fellows to their yearlong posts developing health and social justice solutions in places like Zambia, Malawi…Sep 2015
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"Stories are one of the most powerful ways of communicating information to change people’s behavior and attitudes t… https://t.co/tdgX94Iscy
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"Gender inequalities are a major hurdle in the quest for global good health." @business https://t.co/zGxZMzHbBz
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"Building up employees into future leaders requires you to help them adopt mindsets that will shift their attitudes… https://t.co/Vu5RzBsoAZ
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RT @sonyasoni: In honoring the 2019 #InternationalDayoftheGirl, so grateful to @ghcorps for the opportunity to write about a #socialjustic…
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RT @jasminekburton: In honor of #globalhandwashingday today, check out my latest thought piece in the @ghcorps AMPLIFY publication about th…
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RT @fleetwoodjmack: When you spend the evening catching up with your systems changing, mind expanding, voice raising, feminist, and loving…
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“Bias, implicit or explicit, should no longer impact a woman’s ability to deliver a full-term baby or to survive ch… https://t.co/sBIid1W5H3
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RT @GlobalHlth5050: Data can be transformational. Get to know how your organisation addresses #gender by taking the updated 2019 #GH5050 Se…
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“I think that goes deep to the issue of how we raise our boys to be men, goes deeply into values that we tend to ho… https://t.co/HFruYQXLVN
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“Mistreatment during childbirth can amount to a violation of human rights, and could be a powerful disincentive fro… https://t.co/vTkzlAmpEG
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"Message strategies are more than just the words we choose. Messengers matter, and having people with lived experie… https://t.co/9HRh59VA62
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"...for Black teens, we need to do a better job of understanding the signs of suicidality." #healthequity… https://t.co/mBrL0K8t9K
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"If you don’t live in a community where these diseases are prevalent, they might seem like far away issues — but gl… https://t.co/1bG25tkM6l
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"The next time you find yourself at a sink — with available soap and clean water — I charge you to be a steward of… https://t.co/e4mgTIco3F
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RT @HDIRwanda: #Now: @HDIRwanda is excited to host a consultative meeting with CSOs working on #SRHR to interrogate our role in responding…
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"Whether it is for greater profitability or greater effectiveness, a system must be put in place in every workplace… https://t.co/OwQgMZSSlx
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"The health workforce is an important factor in the delivery of quality health care and is critical for achieving t… https://t.co/crFrMu7RMs
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"Our respect for human dignity and the human right to health demands it." @NPRGoatsandSoda https://t.co/dmMYndpP8r
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RT @ughe_org: On Friday, we celebrated #InternationalDayoftheGirl by telling the stories of three young women who defied the odds to join U…