Alumni Spotlight
It’s so gratifying to follow the journeys of our alumni as they build their professional and wider lives. Our alumni have established themselves in medicine, non-profit organizations, governmental positions, consultancies, entrepreneurship, and academia, and several more are still building their professional lives. A few notable shoutouts:
One of our very first GHS minors, Colleen Fant (’08, pictured left during her study abroad in Mexico in 2007), MD, MPH, recently became a Co-Director of 
Northwestern’s Center for Global Pediatric Health. While a GHS minor, she participated in our Public Health in Mexico study abroad program. Her post-GHS professional trajectory took her to Ghana for a year to work on sexual health programming with a non-profit, before going on to medical school and specializing in pediatric emergency medicine.
Meanwhile, several of our class of 2024 alumni have continued to build their academic and professional profiles through the Accelerated Public Health Program at Feinberg School of Medicine.
Mayán Alvarado-Goldberg (’24, pictured right) was named a 2025-26 Luce Scholar, and will travel to Asia on a 13-month
experiential fellowship program learning and working in reproductive health. She hopes to use her training as a labor and postpartum doula to work in a clinic or birth setting, while gaining critical cultural insights that can inform her approach to patient care as an aspiring future physician.
With GHS’s generous support from donors, GHS was able to fund alumni Anthony Engle and Sophia Moreno in their Master in Public Health Applied Practical Experience in Cape Town, South Africa (pictured on the front page). Sophia and Anthony worked at HOPE Cape Town, an organization that provides holistic HIV care to residents of the city. Sophia and Anthony worked on a variety of projects spanning from organizational consulting to the creation of public health educational resources. Sophia and Anthony also collaborated with nurses, doctors and youth at the Community Day Clinics, Middle School and HOPE programs to understand current sexual practices and barriers to safe sex among youth and completed a report on their findings. Lastly, they led a first of its kind data collection in Blikkiesdorp, a temporary housing community. Sophia and Anthony collected data from consented students, analyzed data in comparison to benchmark and national standards and produced a report on these findings. Sophia and Anthony express great gratitude for the support provided by the Global Health Studies Program.