Fall 2025 Newsletter
LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
Dear Friends of Global Health Studies at Northwestern,
As the wider landscape in higher education this year has created substantial uncertainty, I want to take this moment to thank all the students, faculty, and staff for the spirit of creativity, collaboration, and resilience they’ve brought to our classrooms, meetings, and wider engagements.
GHS launched its 3rd annual speaker series, bringing Boston Globe investigative journalist and former global health practitioner Mara Kardas-Nelson to give a talk based on her outstanding book We Are Not Able To Live In The Sky: The Seductive Promise of Microfinance (Metropolitan Books, 2024). The book explores the promises and dangers of microfinance, tacking between the history of microfinance as an idea thought capable of pulling the poorest out of poverty, to the realities of women borrowers in Sierra Leone whose lives were largely immiserated due to the high interest on the loans.
