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Spears isn’t the only student on Marquette’s campus passionate about giving back to her community. Max Mantych, a senior in the College of Health Sciences, said he recently created a branch of Marquette Global Brigades, an international non-profit which develops partnerships with rural communities around the world.

The branch, called Public Health Telebrigade, is a sustainable development volunteer program that is entirely virtual. Mantych, the club’s campus chairperson, said his biggest advice for other students interested in starting organizations was to start the process as early as possible.

Students from STEMCivics Charter School began their 2022-23 school year on a mission to Panama.

Referenced continually by school founder and head Leigh Byron as “the best kids ever”, students returned to Central America as part of a Global Brigades effort. This mission experience is the fourth this year, all at an elementary school in El Limón, according to Byron. Sixteen PURPLEfect students from the Classes of ’23, ’24, and ’26 are tutoring youngsters in English and doing construction work.

Monica Hill found further support and engagement through the Minority Association of Pre-Medical Students group and other on-campus organizations like Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., Neuroscience Research, the IMPACT Program, Global Medical Brigades.

She graduated with a degree in neuroscience and psychology, then pursued a master of public health degree before applying to medical school.

A novel partnership with a microfinance organization offers student finance talent to resource-limited communities in Central America.

Many have written on the wide inequities reflected in student participation in international education programmes, despite years of efforts dedicated to increasing student diversity, staff hires and other approaches. There are practices and programmes in international education, as elsewhere in the academy, that must be critically examined to address racist outcomes and results.

The award provides full funding for the graduate program of the student’s choosing at Stanford University. Uchitel is the seventh Duke student to win the award. She will use the scholarship to pursue an medical degree at Stanford School of Medicine.

The award provides full funding for the graduate program of the student’s choosing at Stanford University. Uchitel is the seventh Duke student to win the award. She will use the scholarship to pursue a medical degree at Stanford School of Medicine.

USciences Global Medical Brigades chapter was scheduled for an in-person brigade to Panama in May 2020 but due to unprecedented circumstances all in-person brigades were suspended. Global Medical Brigades uses a holistic model to meet community health and economic needs, and is almost entirely funded through volunteers’ funds and donations. Due to the pandemic, volunteers could not actively participate to make a difference in urban and rural communities. To continue to ensure people living in communities with limited access to care and healthcare professionals, Global Medical Brigades implemented telebrigades. Medical Telebrigades through GMB are week-long opportunities where students can virtually participate in medical clinics in a developing country. Students have the opportunity to shadow local doctors through a secure telemedical consultation with patients from the respective community. Students have the opportunity to interact with Community Health Workers and are empowered to make sustainable changes in the respective community’s health.

“Global Brigades is an international student-led movement that strives to implement holistic models around the globe,” Negosian said on her website. “In our Telebrigade, we engineered a pipeline for water in Cerro De Agua, a region in Jinotega, Nicaragua that lacked infrastructure for water.”

A Tamaqua woman who is a senior at Villanova University will travel to Panama next month to provide health care services to underprivileged areas.