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Carla Ventura ’17 is collaborating with the Guyana Ministry of Health to enhance the curriculum of a hybrid professional nursing training program. This initiative strives to elevate nursing education standards in Guyana and broaden its accessibility. The overwhelming response of over 1,712 applicants upon the program's launch far surpassed initial expectations.

Toyese Oyeyemi ’17 wrote about the recent exodus of medical schools from the US News and World Report rankings. He argues that current medical school metrics prioritize privilege over purpose and he advocates for a shift towards emphasizing social mission. Rating schools by their commitment to social mission would encourage measuring performance against the social mission of health education instead of by comparison against others. 

Bram Wispelwey ’20 founded and is co-directing the Palestine Program for Health and Human Rights, an academic hub that engages in a broadly collaborative justice and rights-based approach in the study of Palestinian health through knowledge production, education and multidisciplinary community engagement.