“I really liked both of my electives, and they gave me two different experiences, but were both really enriching. I definitely feel like I am more ready to join the American medical system. My skills in terms of note taking, history taking, and examinations have really gotten better because I have had amazing residents and attendings and fellows who have always been so forthcoming and very willing to teach.”

-Rishanki Jha, Kasturba Medical College (India)

“It was interesting because it was so fast-paced. In the morning, we had morning rounds and I’d never done that! So, as a medical student being exposed to that was fun because I got to see and take care of so many patients on my own.”

– Saamia Javed, C.M.H. Lahore Medical College (Pakistan)

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/04/25/604966533/two-years-after-end-of-ebola-crisis-survivors-sue-to-receive-promised-aid?utm_source=Global+Health+NOW+Main+List&utm_campaign=b884df3902-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d0d062dbd-b884df3902-875843   “Cellal alaa cogu — health has no price,” sighs Haja Bah, looking out on a dusty street in the sprawling eastern suburbs of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital. “But they have forgotten us … and many are still really suffering.” Between 2013 and 2016, the Ebola virus claimed more than 11,000 lives across West … Read more

Dear Students, Faculty and Staff: Each year, hundreds of people in the Carolina community travel internationally for important academic, research, and outreach opportunities.  We would like to remind you of university requirements and resources that can help inform your plans for safe and productive international travel. UNC Global Travel Registry  (http://globaltravel.unc.edu) Anyone traveling internationally in … Read more

“This is why I came to the US, to train in the US. Because I could see the potential of human endeavor and human intellect at all once. It was so beautiful to see everything working so seamlessly and so well together..”

-Shreyas Venkataraman, Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences (India)

https://www.globalhealthnow.org/2018-04/peril-and-promise-fighting-malaria-and-drug-resistance?utm_source=Global+Health+NOW+Main+List&utm_campaign=c70043884c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_04_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8d0d062dbd-c70043884c-875843 Although malaria deaths have been nearly halved since 2000, the global health community is hardly in a celebratory mood on this World Malaria Day. The reason: Progress against malaria has recently stalled. “We are now at a turning point, warned WHO Director-General Tedros last November at the publication of the World Malaria Report. “Without … Read more

“I was expecting a good rotation, but not THIS good. The city is great, the people are so nice- everything has just been amazing”

-Gabriel Francisco Aleixo, UNOESTE (Brazil)

“I honestly genuinely mean that this has been THE best learning experience- the most intense- but also the best learning experience so far.”

-Shaheb Javed, King Edward Medical University (Pakistan)

” I had a great experience at UNC. During one of my months here, we were a group of 8 students from literally all over the world-India, China, Jordan, Brazil, and Canada but we all hit it off so well that we remain in touch even now. We had weekly outings and explored every corner of Chapel Hill, which is one of the liveliest and most exciting student towns I have visited. This experience really proved that we are only separated by geographic borders, but human nature and values remain the same!”

— Radhika Kulkarni. Kasturba Medical College, Manipal. (India)

The OIA is proud to announce the upcoming release of North Carolina Children’s Global Health Handbook- by one of our 2017 OIA Resident Global Health Scholars, Erica Bjornstad, MD, MPH

“Everybody really makes you feel welcome and loved, and that was the reason that I became really comfortable and slowly confident in what I was doing”

-Alizeh Abbas, The Aga Khan University (Pakistan)