ANNUAL REPORT

2018-2019

The University of IowaGlobal Health Studies Program

TABLE OF CONTENTS

STUDENT STATISTICSenrollment numbersPage 2

FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTpublications, research, & the GHS conferencePage 5

STUDENT ENGAGEMENTresearch, internships, & awards Pages 3-4

INTRODUCTIONletter from the GHSP directorPage 1

The University of Iowa Global Health Studies Program (GHSP) offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the complex factors influencing health and disease locally and around the world.

INTRODUCTION

As the Global Health Studies Major heads into its fourth year we take a moment to recognize the work students and faculty have been doing to make this a successful program. We are very proud of the work our students and faculty are engaging in both locally and around the world. For over two decades, the Global Health Studies Program has been a leader of interdisciplinarity at the University of Iowa—grounding inquiry in the humanities and social sciences. Like our growing number of majors, our minor and certificate students continue to challenge disciplinary boundaries to prepare themselves to be global actors. Global Health Studies students graduate with incredible experiences led by a faculty that mentors and challenges them to achieve. I invite you to take a look at some of our accomplishments from the 2018-19 academic year.

Mariola Espinosa, PhDDirectorGlobal Health Studies ProgramDivision of Interdisciplinary ProgramsThe University of Iowa

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GLOBAL HEALTH STUDIES PROGRAM2

GHS STUDENT STATISTICS

135majors

71

64

45%of majors identify as

underrepresented minorities

32%of majors are first-

generation college students

82minors

7certificates

bachelorsof science

bachelorsof arts

GHS Major Aida Mengistu

blogged for IES during her

internship in Cape Town and won an Editor’s Choice Award.

GHS Major Sabereen Mohamed won a 2019 Gilman International Scholarship to study health and disease in South Africa.

GHS Certificate student Maegan Tyrrell curated

photos taken by refugee-identifying women in

Iowa City which reflected on food and community.

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CLAS DEAN’S ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

STANLEY AWARDS FOR INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH(SPAIN & INDIA)

MHIRT INTERNSHIPS(ROMANIA)

HONORS IN THEGHS MAJOR

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OUR STUDENTS ARE:LEADERS IN

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

ENGAGED IN INTERNATIONAL AND

LOCAL GLOBAL HEALTH

SUMMER 2018MYSURU INTERNS

Three Global Health Studies students completed internships with the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement in Mysuru, India, in the summer of

2018. They then went on to additional achievements in 2018-19:

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OUR STUDENTS ARE:

The GHSP conducted a successful GOLDRush fundraising

campaign in the fall of 2018. With the generous contributions

of our donors and the South Asian Studies Program’s Ananthamurthy Fund, we

supported four Global Health Studies students who completed 8-week internships with SVYM in

the summer of 2019.

SUMMER 2019MYSURU INTERNS

Anger Dok (top) earned a prestigious Boren Scholarship to complete language study and an internship in Tanzania.

Kuann Fawkes (middle) and Laura Villarreal (bottom) won 2019 Center for Diversity and Enrichment (CDE) Student Leadership Awards.

BOREN SCHOLARSHIP

CDE LEADERSHIP AWARDS

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OUR FACULTY ARE:

Dr. Ted Powers (GHS/Anthropology) published “Echoes of Austerity: Policy, Temporality, and Public Health in South

Africa,” in Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (Issue #83,

Spring 2019), an issue of the journal which he also co-edited.

Dr. Alberto Ortiz Díaz (GHS/History) presented his research, “‘Awakening

the Living Dead’: Rehabilitative Corrections in Puerto Rico’s Oso

Blanco, 1930s-1950s,” as part of the UI Anthropology Lecture Series.

Dr. Mariola Espinosa (GHSP Director/History) continued her research on the history of yellow fever as a spring 2019 Obermann Center Fellow in Residence. Her work was also profiled by the Daily

Iowan (4/16/19).

LEADERS INTHEIR FIELD

GHSP Acting Director Dr. Waltraud Maierhofer (right) and GHS Instructor Christine Brunner Luse co-taught the fall 2018 Global Health Conference, “Humanity, Equity, and Technology: The Right to Health in a Changing World.” Award-winning Ugandan journalist and women’s health advocate Brian Mutebi (left) presented a keynote address to the 130 students enrolled in the course.

PREPARING STUDENTS TO ADDDRESSREAL WORLD HEALTH ISSUES

Global Health Studies ProgramDivision of Interdisciplinary Programs

(319) 384-1328globalhealthstudies@uiowa.edu

clas.uiowa.edu/global-health-studies/

Global Health Studies Program Annual Report designed by Lauren Himan

Text set by Ashleigh MonacoCopyright 2019 by the University of Iowa