2022 IntraHealth-UNC Summer Fellows Explore Health Workforce Development, Family Planning, and Policy and Advocacy

August 10, 2022 Chapel Hill, NCThree students from theIntraHealth-UNC Fellows Program completed their fellowships with IntraHealth International last month, marking the thirteenth year of the partnership between IntraHealth and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). This year’s fellows, who came from UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health and the UNC School of Nursing, spent the summer working side-by-side with global health professionals at IntraHealth. They analyzed strategies for measuring how health workforce interventions affect client health, the global health investment landscape, and how IntraHealth’s SupCap project in Uganda increased contraceptive use among postpartum couples.Meet the 2022 IntraHealth-UNC Summer FellowsDana Bjuro, a student in the UNC School of Nursing, worked with IntraHealth’s strategic information, digital health, and health workforce development teams to identify ways to predict client health using workforce development indicators. By the end of her fellowship, she had drafted a research protocol and helped IntraHealth understand which indicators and variables affect client health outcomes and thus the quality of health services. Mary Peter is a physician from Nigeria. She has worked in primary care for over three years and is now pursuing a master’s degree in public health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health. She is particularly interested in health workforce advoc...
Source: IntraHealth International - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: Family Planning & Reproductive Health Digital Health Policy Advocacy IntraHealth-UNC Summer Fellows Measurement and Evaluation Source Type: news