Public Health in Rural Uganda

Immersion trip to Southwestern Uganda

January 1 – 16, 2016

Health is a universal human right, and adequate public healthcare is an important dimension of this universal right. The mission of Global Health Initiative (GHI) is to engage the local Colgate community in emerging global health inequalities, and this winter break, GHI is sponsoring an immersion trip to Uganda that will focus on healthcare access and health outcomes in underserved communities. Led by Professor Ellen Kraly, up to five students will visit a grassroots HIV clinic and local hospital.

Students will spend the first week at the Indigo Foundation, which is a community-based organization that supports at-risk children and young people, all poor, many orphaned and many HIV-positive (https://www.indigofoundation.org). Students will spend a second week at Bwindi Community Hospital, which is a nonprofit hospital that provides health services to local farmers and herders affected by poverty, with an emphasis on child health, maternity and family planning, HIV/AIDS, and TB (http://www.bwindihospital.com). In addition to learning about medicine, healthcare policy, and sustainable development, students will gain a first-hand experience how community-level NGOs are shaping public health. To learn more, please view the GHI GetInvolved page or contact ehuiting@colgate.edu.

The trip is open to all Colgate students and will be fully funded (including transportation, meals, lodging, airfare, immunizations, and visa).

Applications are available online at https://goo.gl/JqNttZ.

Application deadline: November 9, 2015 (decisions will be announced during late November to early December).

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Off-Campus Study and the Center for International Programs are proud to announce a new photo submission contest for students studying abroad on a Colgate study abroad program, extended study, and on an approved study abroad program.

Students on any study abroad program are encouraged to submit a photo in one of three categories: academia, culture, and scenery.  The only rules are that the picture must be PG and that they do not objectify the locals.

Winning pictures will be selected each week by the Off-Campus Study staff, and will be highlighted on the Center for International Programs website (www.colgate.edu/cip) and on the big screens in the Center.

Photo submissions should be sent to off-campusstudy@colgate.edu as an email attachment, along with your name, year, major, location and brief description about the picture.

Although not yet a contest, short video submissions will also be accepted.

In the upcoming future, Off-Campus Study and the Center for International Programs will also highlight sunsets taken from all over the world, and request that interested participants send their sunset pictures, along with descriptions, to off-campusstudy@colgate.edu.

Hannah Fleckenstein ’17 Native American Studies-Psychology Copenhagen, Denmark photo taken in Bergen, Norway

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