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.
As GHC’s CEO, Heather provides leadership, management, and vision to drive the organization’s mission to mobilize a global community of health equity leaders. Her previous experience spans both public and private sectors, including leadership roles with Planned Parenthood Global, Global Health Strategies and Accenture. She studied business at the University of Michigan and received her MPH from Columbia University.
IMPACT
GHC has trained 1,028 young leaders since 2009, representing 48 nationalities, speaking 45 languages, and bringing a multitude of perspectives to bear on global health challenges. GHC leaders have varied skillsets – they are economists, designers, researchers, finance gurus, software engineers, communications experts, data analysts, and more.
Being part of GHC amplifies alumni impact: 99% attribute their professional achievements in part to GHC involvement.
GHC leaders are committed to transforming health systems over time: 82% of GHC alumni continue to work on global health and social justice issues following the fellowship.
GHC leaders actively collaborate to break down silos and transform health systems: 55 organizations employ more than one GHC alumnus, and 61% of GHC leaders have collaborated with another alumnus in the past year alone.
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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RT @preciouskerunga: Celebrating women who held the door open, placed a foot in the door, fixed seats at tables where women had no chance,…
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A HUGE shout out to alumnus Oumar Sylla for sending off our 2020-2021 cohort with words of encouragement, wisdom, a… https://t.co/gGZpX1I7gI
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AMPLIFY archives: Alumnus Madalitso Phiri on the importance of supporting #education for girls. "Educated women hav… https://t.co/mYrfjEN0Fu
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.@WHO announces that people living with HIV should be prioritized for #COVID19 vaccination as they have an increase… https://t.co/inrdMCXAXI
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"The 151,200 doses of Johnson & Johnson #vaccine have arrived [on July 22] in the country Zambia. The vaccines are… https://t.co/dwp4fldJgK
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RT @nyzbrahim: “No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others.” Thanks @ghcorps for Giving us opportunities…
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.@mandrews110 addresses the hoops women jump through to receive the birth control of their choice, especially as "n… https://t.co/Di6rUXhVA5
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In honor of the 2020-2021 fellow cohort's end of year retreat, we sifted through the AMPLIFY archives & found alumn… https://t.co/qjgP7tbCGJ
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"As the highly contagious Delta variant of the #coronavirus fuels outbreaks in the U.S., director of @CDCgov [warns… https://t.co/1Pq7aKhrQG
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"Malawians will soon start receiving different regimes of #vaccines, Pfizer & Johnson&Johnson to its list of… https://t.co/yWXv6YLs3G
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"Smoke traveling from the Western wildfires is reaching all the way across the US, bringing vibrant red sunsets & m… https://t.co/Q70vhmg7HZ
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Our VP of Programs @johncape contributed insights on building an impactful leadership development program for… https://t.co/M2vTxSKd1L
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As part of our partnership with @TheGirlsNet, CEO & Co-Founder @young_charlotte shares what she learned about scali… https://t.co/MQKWT67Bcf
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"An established benchmark for #COVID19 would allow drugmakers to conduct #vaccine trials in just a few thousand peo… https://t.co/yUrzeQiKR3
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"Is repeating space/moon travel a more pressing issue than addressing #genderequality on earth? @JeffBezos seems to… https://t.co/aptzKSAuSg
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Big step towards production of vaccines in Africa: @BioNTech_Group & @pfizer "have signed a letter of intent that w… https://t.co/1J71ENLcro
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"By permanently repealing the Global Gag Rule, the U.S. can again don the mantle of #globalhealth & help doctors wo… https://t.co/Hri6a5aUCQ
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.@devex takes a closer look at how Uganda is leading the way in tackling pediatric HIV. Uganda has a long-standing… https://t.co/EV8B4BGeTU