Former OIA Global Health Scholar, Ross Boyce, MD, MSC draws on his military experience to provide care and help overcome access issues in rural Uganda. He has been awarded a Challenge Grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support his work.
Mirriam Munthali, who is in her fourth year at the Malawi College of Medicine, spent the summer in Chapel Hill as a part of the UNC Partner Site Student Scholarship, sponsored by the UNC School of Medicine’s Office of International Activities.
Benjamin Chi, MD, MSc
Professor, Global Women’s Health
UNC MD Candidates, Shannon Herndon and Lauren Ellis presented their poster “A qualitative case study of the Austral Institute in Neuquen, Argentina: A community healthcare model in Latin America” at the AAFP Global Health Summit this past week in Jacksonville, FL.
By Dr. Kandace McGuire and Apoorve Nayyar
Alan Rosenbaum, MD
Fellow, Global Women’s Health
OIA Global Health Scholar, Erica Bjornstad, MD, and third-year pediatric nephrology fellow is studying the epidemiology of acute kidney injury in Malawi.
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Shannon Herndon, MD Candidate, Class of 2020
Lauren Ellis, MD Candidate, Class of 2021
This June, OIA Program Manager, Shay Slifko, was able to make her first journey to the popular elective site and got a first-hand look at what these global health electives entail.
Senior Emergency Medicine Resident Nadeem Modan, MD, received first place in the 2018 Annual Emergency Medicine Resident Day of Scholarship for his role in an ongoing global health project aimed towards expanding acute care availability in India.