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Alumni are an important resource for current students interested in global health. As you may remember during your time at the UNC School of Public Health, it can be challenging to break into a career in global health. We want to know what you are up to now that you are out there in the world. Please email ogh@unc.edu and share your insights into the world of global health. Our students and faculty would welcome the opportunity to learn from your experiences.
Who's Doing What in the World?Bill Brieger (MPH '75) worked at the African Regional Health Education Center at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, from 1976 until April 2002. While there, he taught MPH courses and conducted research in several areas including primary health care, village health workers, adolescent reproductive health, child survival, and social and behabioral aspects of tropical disease control. Bill still does consultancy, recently returning from a USAID Strategic Assessment missiont to Abuja, Nigeria, where he examined their child survival and reproductive health programs. Bill Burgess (MPH '64) returned
from working in Sierra Leone last October, where he was head of mission
for a International NGO and was responsible for implementing a large
primary care program as well as Lassa fever and nutrition programs. He
also worked closely with the Ministry of Health and Kenema District
Hospital, building its capacity in maternal and child health
in/outpatient and pediatric in/outpatient services.
Colleen Carpenter (MPH '01) traveled to Nigeria in September and October 2002, for her work with Ipas,
a Chapel Hill-based international non-profit that works on reproductive
health around the globe. Colleen works with a team of six Nigerians,
five of whom are based in Abuja, Nigeria, to reduce the consequences of
unsafe abortion in Nigeria. During her visit she co-facilitated a
training of trainers (TOT) for ob/gyms and midwives on using
participatory and empowerment approaches in the training they do in
post abortion care around the country. Anne Goddard (MPH '83) has served as the country director for CARE in Egypt
for the past three and a half years. In this position, she oversees the
total operations of CARE, which are focused on addressing the
underlying causes of poverty affecting the most vulnerable households
in the poorest communities. Steve Hodgins (DrPH '00) has been working as a Johns Hopkins Child Survival Fellow,
based at the USAID mission in Lusaka, Zambia. His work has focused on
malaria, nutrition, childhood illnesses and infectious disease control.
Lisa Langhaug (MPH '96) reports that she is still in
Zimbabwe, now working as the evaluation manager for a community
randomized trial of an innovative adolescent reproductive health
program. The intervention includes a school-based curriculum
incorporating reproductive health knowledge and behavior change, a
program to ensure rural health clinics are more accessible to young
people, and a community program that raises awareness about the
pressures of adolescent. This project is based in Mutare, a city that
borders Mozambique. Mubiana Macwan'gi (PhD '90) is working at the University of Zambia, Institute of Economic and Social Research, as a research fellow in the Health Promotion Research Program. Corrina Moucheraud-Vickery (MPH '05) now works at Duke University as the Program Coordinator for the
Lardja Sanwogou (MPH '79) has only recently retired from the World Health Organization, Regional Office for Africa,
where he served for nearly a quarter of a century. Leaving Rosenau Hall
in 1979, he was recruited to spearhead the yet to be established Health
Education and Promotion Department in the newly established Regional
Public Health INstitute created at the University fo Benin, in the
Republic of Benin, West Africa, by the collective of African
French-speaking countries in collaboration with WHO. Following that
post, he was later deployed to several African countries to serve as
the team leader on many different projects. |
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| Last updated December 19, 2007 |
