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Catherine Arkell
Member, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
Catherine Arkell is currently a Master’s student at the University of Alberta School of Public Health, as well as a medical student. She holds undergraduate degrees in both microbiology and cultural anthropology. Catherine has a profound love of Africa and she is incredibly passionate about the health of vulnerable populations. She has spent time living in Kenya, Tanzania, and Indonesia. Catherine is currently the student representative on the Canadian Society International Health Board of Directors and a member of the African Medical and Research Foundation’s Edmonton Committee. She would like to focus her career on maternal and refugee health. Her vision is to effectively blend educational backgrounds in public health and medicine, in order to advocate for and provide comprehensive care to rural and underserved populations in both Canada and abroad.
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Geneviève Bois
Leader, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
Geneviève Bois is a second year medical student enrolled at Université de Montreal. Originally from Montréal, but having lived and travelled abroad, she considers herself a citizen of the world and hopes to work in various settings. She's worked for local NGOs in Montréal, mainly around the topic of civic participations and greater involvement of immigrant communities and co-founded a foundation in Grenada, Caribbean. She's the Regional Coordinator for the Americas for the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA), and the president of IFMSA-Québec. Her main interest are social determinants of health, inqualities and infectious diseases. She serves her second year on the Student Advisory Committee of GHEC and will be the co-chair for 2010-2011.
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Sophie Bridge
Member, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
Sophie is a post-graduate student studying medicine at Otago University, NZ. Her first degree was in "Reproduction, Genetics and Development". Sophie's interest in reproduction and development stems from when she found out she was a "donor-baby" at the age of 15, and she finds the field exciting and controversial.
In 2011 Sophie is taking a year out from her medical studies to undertake a "BMedSc (Hons)" research year. Her research will be in the Bioethics Department of Otago University and she will be writing a thesis on Induced Pluripotent Stem (IPS) Cells, looking in depth at both the science of these stem cells and the ethical challenges associated with their use.
Aside from study, In 2010 Sophie set up Medical Students for Global Awareness "MSGA" in Dunedin. MSGA is a humanitarian, project focused organization for medical students to be involved with, its aim being to empower medical students as future doctors to become more involved with local and global humanitarian issues. Sophie set up a 20-member committee, a 200-strong mailing, and held 8 events, through which she raised over $8000 for a variety of worthy charities and organizations.
To experience global humanitarian issues, such as poverty, first hand Sophie is going to India for 8 weeks from the 25th of November 2010. MSGA has a partnership with the Institute for Indian Mother and Child (IIMC), and subsequently Sophie will spend the first 5 weeks volunteering in a primary health care clinic for IIMC, just south of Kolkata.
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Nora Burns
Board Member, Global Health Education Consortium
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Eileen Cheung
Member, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
I am a fourth year medical student at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. My particular interest in global health education lies in developing educational curriculum and products. I am currently serving as the National Officer of Global Health Education (NOGHE) for the Canadian Federation of Medical Students (CFMS), a post whose function is to seek out, advocate for and coordinate global health education activities for Canadian medical students. Building on the work of the past several NOGHEs, the portfolio during my term has focused largely on pre-departure training implementation, standardization, with some involvement in research. I’m excited to be part of the GHEC SAC and look forward to working with such a diverse group of people.
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Jessica Evert, MD
SAC Liason to the Board, Global Health Education Consortium
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Jennifer Hulme, MPH
Board Member, Global Health Education Consortium
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Ahmar Hashmi, MPH
Member, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
Ahmar Hashmi recently matriculated to the University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine, Galveston, Texas, to begin the doctor of medicine (MD) program. In addition to being enrolled in the School of Medicine, Mr. Hashmi is also participating in UTMB’s Global Health Track and is currently a member of many professional and on-campus organizations. Prior to this, Ahmar Hashmi worked as a program officer for the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH) Vietnam Country Program, based in Hanoi, Vietnam. As a program officer for PATH, Mr. Hashmi supported projects in Vietnam covering a wide range of programming areas such as maternal and child health, vaccines and immunization systems strengthening, safe water, infectious disease surveillance, and public-private mix activities for provision of health care services and products. He worked in a variety of capacities for the Vietnam Country Program, including: fundraising and proposal development; project monitoring and evaluation; assisting in project design; data analysis; technical reporting; formulating donor and partner agreements; and general program support. Mr. Hashmi also provided support for other PATH programs in the Asia region, including Cambodia (safe water, TB public-private mix programming, safe abortion) and Thailand (business development, infectious disease surveillance). Prior to joining PATH, he worked on HIV/AIDS projects in China and Vietnam and managed a research project on malaria in pregnant women in India. In 2008, Mr. Hashmi completed a Master in Public Health at Boston University School of Public Health, with a focus on international health and epidemiology.
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Nilofer Khan Habibullah Member, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
Nilofer is pursuing a combined BS/MD program at the American International Medical University on the beautiful island of St.Lucia in the Caribbean. A global citizen: born and raised on sandy turf of Saudi Arabia, she earned her BS and completed Basic Sciences at St Lucia, volunteered at the St.Lucia Blind Welfare Association to study preventive blindness, constructed epidemiological data of HIV/AIDS issues on the island with the US Peace Corps and the St Lucia National AIDS Secretariat at the Ministry of Health.Nilofer spent most of her summers working at community health centers studying health disparity, volunteering at HIV/AIDS free clinics in south India and shadowing pediatric surgeons to explore it as a potential specialty of interest. As the founder of her chapter, American Medical Students Association (AMSA) has driven her to campaign for health disparity issues at Capitol Hill, Global Health initiative advocacy and an enlightening interaction with global health groups and campaigns.Nilofer’s interests include health inequity, Global Health Initiative, pediatric palliative care, immigrant health and fostering accessible health care. She was a student journalist covering health issues for a teen magazine at Saudi Arabia and has published works global health and vulnerable groups. She also serves on the American Medical Student Association's AIDS Advocacy Network Steering Committee, international coordinator for the Global Health Action Committee and was named Health Equity Scholar this year.
In her spare time, she enjoys charcoal drawing, flight simulators, reading anthologies, and being one of her triplet siblings.
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Katherine Lemler
Member, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
Kate Lemler is a medical student at the University of Chicago, Class of 2012. Her interest in global health first began with college work in health disparities and health policy that examined the social determinants of health. After graduating, Kate moved to the Dominican Republic as a member of the Young Adult Service Corps, where she worked for 12 months in HIV-patient care and in health education, training community members to educate their neighbors in basic preventive health. Once in medical school, she continued her work with global populations as the interpreter/volunteer coordinator for a free student-run clinic, serving a predominantly Spanish- and Polish-speaking population in Chicago. In 2009, Kate was a delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and worked to shape UN policy on women in caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS. Kate also became involved in University of Chicago’s Wuhan University (Wuhan, China) Medical Education Reform Project, which marked her first formal experience in global health education. She has worked for three years with WUMER, having spent one summer in Wuhan, China, implementing the new curriculum, with plans to return twice more before graduating. In her spare time, Kate enjoys music, cooking, and being outside. Kate is excited to become a member of the Student Advisory Committee to GHEC and is looking forward to working together in global health education.
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Laura Pascoe, MS Community Development
Leader, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
Laura Pascoe just finished her MSc in Community Development at UC Davis and is carrying on her research at UC Davis as a Geography PhD student. Her areas of interest are Gender, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Human Rights. Her masters thesis was based on a community-based gender justice initiative specifically seeking to engage men, which she helped facilitate during her internship with Sonke Gender Justice Network in Cape Town, South Africa during the second half of 2009. Sonke is a South African-based NGO that seeks to engage men and boys in gender justice-related work. She intends to carry on similar research bridging together aspects of gender, health, and community development for her PhD.
Laura has a background in psychology, cross-cultural communications and women’s studies, and has spent the last 2 years volunteering as a Crisis Line Counsellor for a Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence hotline in California. Laura also has extensive experience in teaching, including a year in Thailand and most recently teaching courses in Community Development and Research Methods at the university level. In her free time she enjoys yoga, hiking, and travelling, as well as doing handstands during as many of those activities as possible.
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Emilie Prot
Member, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
Emilie Y Prot is a current osteopathic medical student at OUCOM in Athens, OH. Emilie grew up in Limoges France where her family is currently living. She pursued a Bachelor of Science degree at the University of Notre Dame, IN completing it with a minor in Latino Studies. During her Undergraduate Studies, Emilie’s research was focused on Latino culture: the “Role of Churches among Hispanics in South Bend, Indiana” (2008). She spent 8 weeks after graduation in Mexico where she pursued research on “Migration, Gender and Health: A Case Study in Guanajuato, Mexico” which was published in the Latino Student Series of the University of Notre Dame and was given as a paper presentation at the Inter-University Program of Latino Research Conference in 2009. Emilie was a Haitian Creole Teachers Assistant her senior year. And in fall 2009, she was selected as Global Engagement Summit delegate as she was working on a cash crop project to benefit the village of Tamaula. During the summer of 2010, Emilie returned to Tamaula in Mexico where she furthered investigation on two studies “Medicinal Plant Use and Traditional Medicinal Practices is Rural Mexico: A Case Study in Tamaula, Guanajuato, MX” and on the topic of “Health Conditions Related to the Use of Unsanitary Water in Rural Mexico: A Study of Tamaula, Guanajuato, MX”. Both these research projects were received as poster presentations at the American Osteopathic Association Convention in 2010. When Emilie is not busy studying, she loves to cook, travel and spend time with friends.
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Jennifer Smitten, MD
Member, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
Originally from sunny Penticton, British Columbia, Jen has lived in Vancouver for most of the past decade (but is still not used to the rain!) She recently graduated from medical school at the University of British Columbia and is currently in her first year of the UBC Pediatric Residency Program. She is particularly interested in infectious diseases and the health of vulnerable populations. Her passion for global health grew after living in South Africa for nearly 2 years before starting medical school, and subsequently she has been involved in improving the global health curriculum at UBC for both undergraduate students and postgraduate trainees. Interests outside of medicine include learning new languages, snowboarding, hiking, yoga, anything to do with summer, live music, and enjoying a great glass of wine.
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Devina Maya Wadhwa
Member, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
Devina Wadhwa, a medical student at the University of British Columbia has been involved with the global health picture at UBC. Born and raised in Eldoret, Kenya she is passionate about the concept of global health as an evolving one with interest in global health ethics. She was the Co-Chair for The Global Health Initiative at UBC 2009-2010. Devina is involved in global health curriculum development at UBC Medicine. She is also involved in the organization of global health skill building workshops that cover a variety of topics such as: ethics of global health community service projects and validated surveying of projects. Devina was the Global Health Advocate 2009 representative at UBC, a position under the CFMS umbrella involved in promoting aboriginal health care.
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Lucie Wright
Member, GHEC Student Advisory Committee
I am delighted to be able to contribute to the work of the Student Advisory Committee for the Global Health Education Consortium. I have a special interest in medical education and I am really looking forward to be able to apply this to the global health setting. I am currently studying at Lund Universitet, Sweden and will return to Edinburgh for my final year of medical studies next year.
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