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Duke Geneva Global Health Fellows Program

Duke Geneva Global Health Fellows Program. Blair Golden August 28 th , 2012. What is the Global Health Fellows Program?. C oordinated through Duke ’s Sanford School of Public Policy Consisted of several elements: Geneva-based policy summer internship at a global health organization

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Duke Geneva Global Health Fellows Program

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  1. Duke Geneva Global Health Fellows Program Blair Golden August 28th, 2012

  2. What is the Global Health Fellows Program? • Coordinated through Duke ’s Sanford School of Public Policy • Consisted of several elements: • Geneva-based policy summer internship at a global health organization • 1 week, intensive Global Health course • Consisted of site-visits and small-group lecturers/discussions with global health policy experts • Visits included WHO, GAVI, UNAIDS, Doctors without Borders, Global Fund, UNITAID, DNDi, WTO, others • Cohort of ~15-20 students from MD, MPH, PhD, and residency programs • Program events throughout the summer • Duke program included 4 “course tracks” with approximately ~60-70 participants • Events included career panels, visit to US Mission, networking cocktail, etc.

  3. How I spent my summer • I worked at the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Mental Health Policy Division • Huge draw of the WHO was the organization’s scope, and the huge international internship program • Approximately 300-400 interns each summer from around the world • I choose to work in Mental Health Policy because of the cross-cutting nature of mental illness and the significant disease morbidity

  4. What did I do on a daily basis? • The mental health policy team is very small (4 full time staff members!), so my internship involved “wearing a bunch of different hats” • My tasks included helping develop/write policy papers (writing abstracts, citations, conducting literature searches), helping launch a policy “toolkit” to evaluate mental health facilities (press releases, event planning), and grant writing/editing • WHO has a TON of intern activities during the summer, which I also took advantage of • Lecturers, social events, exercise and language classes, etc.

  5. What is Geneva like to live in? • The city is a global health policy hotspot! • The city is VERY international (albeit smaller than you might think) • Geneva is full of UN interns during the summer • More than half of the city holds an international passport, representing 180 different countries • It’s on a lake near the alps, the average temperature in June is 75 F, and chocolate, cheese and wine are cheap  • French was helpful, but not necessary

  6. Some summer highlights… Paris! Watching Euro Cup with WHO co-workers Hanging out with other Duke program participants on Lake Geneva

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