Haiti: Global Health Fellowship

Organization: Medical Missionaries
Country: Haiti
Closing date: 10 Oct 2014

The Medical Missionaries Global Health Fellowship is a competitive, year-long experience for recent college graduates, graduate students, or professionals interested in global health, underserved medicine, and rural healthcare delivery. Each year, two Fellows are placed at St. Joseph's Clinic, located in Haiti's Central Plateau. The Fellows act as liaisons between St. Joseph's Clinic and Medical Missionaries, the Virginia-based organization that founded and supports the Clinic. Their responsibilities include serving as Medical Missionaries’ eyes and ears on the ground, helping coordinate the Clinic’s operations, and managing many of the Clinic's community health programs, including: community health workers, traditional birth assistants, infant malnutrition programs, maternal and child health programs, water purification, and salt iodization. The Fellows work closely with the clinic staff of doctors, nurses, midwives, and pharmacists as well as with local community health committees from each of the six outlying villages, to implement and improve these programs. The Fellows have numerous opportunities to shadow the clinic staff, work in the laboratory and pharmacy, and are also responsible for coordinating visiting teams of surgeons and physicians. The Fellowship is unpaid, but all fellowship-associated transportation, flights, living expenses, and evacuation insurance are covered by Medical Missionaries. Although no specific prior experiences are required, strong applicants will have outstanding academic and extracurricular records, a demonstrated commitment to reducing health disparities worldwide, and some exposure to living or working in a resource poor setting. Conversational knowledge of French or Creole is a plus, but not required.

How to apply:

Please see http://medmissionaries.org/id208.html for more information and how to apply.The primary application is due no later than October 10, 2014 at 11:59 PM EST, and should be sent to mmghfellows@gmail.com. Applicants are stronglyencouraged to apply early.