Two Northwestern University Weinberg students Brittany Zelch (Class of 2015) and Emery Weinstein (Class of 2016) recently won the Illinois Health Matters Young Leader Award. Illinois Health Matters is an organization that provides Illinois-specific updates about healthcare reform, aiming to lower disparities in health care across populations by providing information on access to health care and
Author: Lajja Patel
Greetings! I am a senior majoring in Psychology and minoring in Global Health. I have always enjoyed writing short proses and interpretive poems, however, I was drawn to writing about global health, in particular, after having sustained conversations with a friend about how dynamic and ever-shifting the global health landscape is. Reading and writing about how entire communities and nations come together to provide essential health care services to even the most difficult to traverse and conflict inflicted regions is fascinating to me.
Sri Lanka is a multicultural and multilingual country that has had a long history of armed conflict. Sri Lanka’s rich multiethnic communities that make it a diverse country today were once a source of conflict that led to lasting civil war. In the colonial era, the Portuguese, Dutch, and British tried to colonize Sri Lanka,
On Wednesday, February 11, the Buffett Institute and International Program Development (IPD) co-sponsored a discussion led by Rebeca Grynspan on careers in international development. Rebeca Grynspan is a Costa Rican economist and was formerly a UN under-secretary-general, and the associate administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). She also previously served as the director
Sarah B. Rodriguez teaches in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program and in the Global Health Studies Program at Northwestern University. Global Health Portal blogger Lajja Patel recently spoke with Sarah about her new book Female Circumcision and Clitoridectomy in the United States: A History of a Medical Treatment. Here is an excerpt from the
Last Tuesday, the Evanston Public Library in collaboration with the Village of Skokie, the Erie Family Health Center, and NU International Program Development, hosted a discussion on current health trends in the Evanston and Skokie neighborhoods. The event was titled “In Sickness and in Health” and consisted of a panel of three speakers: Evonda Thomas-Smith,