Public Health Fellows

Expanding upon our existing Gender and Public Policy Graduate Fellowship Program, in 2009 the Council launched the Public Health Graduate Fellowship Program. This program will place students from top-tier graduate schools of public health in the ministries of members of the Council’s Ministerial Initiative for Health as well as in international organizations for a period of 10-12 weeks during the summer months. With confirmed sites around the world, in developed and developing countries alike, participants have the opportunity to gain firsthand experience and an increased understanding of international public health issues. Working at the forefront of international public health with ministers and area experts will allow the graduate fellows to witness the various ways in which leadership is manifested globally.

Sheila Baxter helped orchestrate the UN “World Population Day,” authored speeches for the Minister of Health, partook in the development of the first HIV support group in the country’s history, coordinated a huge humanitarian mission lead by the US Navy entitled “Pacific Partnership,” and revised and amended many of Western Samoa’s national policies. Sheila Baxter University of California at Berkeley Ministry of Health Apia, Samoa, Summer 2009

Baxter with the Samoan Minister of Health Gatoloaifaana Amataga Alesana Gidlow

2011 Public Health Policy Graduate Fellowship Program

• Juveeza Chadha
  Ministry of Health (Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia)
  
  
• Tiffany Clarke
  Ministry of Health (Apia, Samoa)
  
  
• Charmaine Crabaugh
  Office of the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Margot Wallström (New York, New York)
  
  
• Zeenah Haddad
  World Health Organization, Department of Public Health and Environment Gender Focal Point (Geneva, Switzerland)
  
  
• Dionne Jirachaikitti
  World Health Organization, Department of Reproductive Health and Research (Geneva, Switzerland)
  
  
• Surabhi Joshi
  National Institute of Health and Welfare “STAKES” (Helsinki, Finland)
  
  
• Shirin Kakayeva
  Ministry of Health & Prevention (Dakar, Senegal)
  
  
• Mignon Lamia
  Ministry of Health and Medical Services (Tarawa, Kiribati)
  
  
• Swetha Manohar
  Ministerial Leadership Initiative (Washington, DC)
  
  
• Elisaveta Petkova
  Federal Ministry of Health (Berlin, Germany)
  
  
• Elizabeth Stierman
  World Health Organization, Department of Public Health and Environment Gender Focal Point (Geneva, Switzerland)
  
  
• Erica Trauba
  Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (Monrovia, Liberia)
  
  
• Rachel Vanderkruik
  World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland)
  
  
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Summer 2010 Placements
Summer 2009 Placements