2020 IntraHealth-UNC Summer Fellows Explore Global Health in the Age of COVID-19

July 29, 2020Four new IntraHealth International and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill summer fellows completed their projects in gender-based violence, data, and reproductive health this month.Since 2010, IntraHealth and UNC have teamed up to offer graduate students hands-on experience in the field of global health at an international nongovernmental organization—and to strengthen IntraHealth’s work by inviting fresh perspectives and ideas from students at the Gillings School of Global Public Health and, beginning in 2019, the UNC School of Nursing.This year’s fellows graduated from the program after ten weeks of working side-by-side with global health professionals at IntraHealth International. The COVID-19 pandemic meant that the fellowships took place remotely—a first for the program and a shift that allowed IntraHealth to move forward with the fellowship rather than cancelling it.They analyzed data on contraceptive discontinuation, investigated the link between gender-based violence and COVID-19, documented and improved IntraHealth’s digital health tools, and developed a user guide on how to adapt World Health Organization tools to estimate health workforce needs during the pandemic.Forty-one fellows have nowcompleted the program. Each year, they work directly with IntraHealth’s experts, data, and programs around the world. Some of their past projects have focused on:digital healthHIVgenderfamily planninghealth ...

Source: IntraHealth International - July 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: cbishopp Tags: IntraHealth-UNC Summer Fellows Source Type: news