Tag: Global Health

MSIH Welcomes the Class of 2025!

MSIH is many things, but if there’s one thing that sets our medical school apart from all others, it’s the diversity of students joining each entering class. Motivated by a yearning to help others, particularly populations most in need, the MSIH student body is made up of people with extraordinary histories. The entering class of […]

MSIH Alumna Spotlight: Noele Nelson, MD, PhD, MPH at the Centers for Disease Control

Today is World Hepatitis Day. The WHO and CDC commemorate this day by raising awareness of hepatitis and educating people about the burden of viral hepatitis infections and the actions we can take to prevent their spread. MSIH Alumna Noele Nelson, MD, PhD, MPH (Class of 2004) serves as the Chief of the Prevention […]

Graduation 2021

On May 23rd, MSIH celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2021 and their many accomplishments. “Despite the hardships of the pandemic, our students graduated on time,” said Prof. Jotkowitz. “Not only that, but they achieved a stellar match rate that has only been surpassed by our legendary 100%, set in 2018. This a testament […]

Global Health Clerkships in 2021

The capstone Global Health experience at MSIH is the final year eight-week clerkship in one of the school’s partner institutions in a Low Income Country. In past years, students have had clinical experiences in hospitals and clinics in Sri Lanka, India, Peru, Nepal, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Ghana, among others. Then comes the pandemic But what do […]

Big Pitch – 2021 – The Pandemic Edition

For five consecutive years, as the climax to their Introduction to Global Health course, first year students enter “The Big Pitch.” Teams present Global Health proposals showing how they’d effectively utilize a $25 million donation. The idea is modeled on an Emory University School of Public Health concept; students study an assigned country, identify a […]

MSIH as the Model for Global Health Partnerships

When Prof. Judith Lasker last addressed MSIH students and faculty, she’d recently published her book, “Hoping to Help: The Promises and Pitfalls of Global Health Volunteering.” In her work, she describes how many charities and NGOs, hoping to help underprivileged populations, were often far from achieving the lofty goals they’d set themselves. Indeed, more often […]

MSIH Professor Noah Liel-Cohen: Bridging the Gap between High Tech and Low Resource Settings

“8400 adopted the naming convention from the 8200 unit of Israel’s elite cyber intelligence corps,” explains Prof. Noah Liel-Cohen, newly-appointed coordinator of MSIH’s 4th year curriculum. “We are a network of Israeli leaders in every field of human endeavour that’s levering our combined knowledge and skills to advance and expand the country’s HealthTech ecosystem. As […]

MSIH faculty and alumni research article published in Frontiers of Public Health

MSIH has a unique way of teaching Global Health. Unlike most medical schools where Global Health education is lecture-based, MSIH adopts a holistic approach by focusing on real patients, their families and communities as part of a practical curriculum. But is this approach better? Do students learn more? How would we know? This question was […]

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