Thank You to Our Donors
Our wonderful donors enable GHS to provide or enhance opportunities for our students and Program every year, while removing financial barriers that might otherwise limit the activities our Program can support.
Over the last six months, donor generosity has enabled the following activities:
With generous support from the Frost Sable and Mabie Funds, this fall eight GHS students (pictured left) – out of more than 30 who applied in the spring – traveled with Associate Professor of Instruction Sarah Rodriguez to the Wellcome Collection in London the week before fall classes. There they spent time doing original archival research at the 
Wellcome – one of the largest history of medicine libraries in the world – about the history of midwifery and family planning. After their return to Evanston, Dr. Rodriguez and the students engaged in discussions about the history of childbirth, the work of NGOs in global health, and the history of concerns regarding birth control. Each student also wrote an original research paper, which for some of them will be the longest paper they write during their time at Northwestern. This was the fifth cohort to participate in this class, and, like previous cohorts, this small group developed a strong bond – over not just London, the history of childbirth, and the joys and pains of writing, but also a love of baking.
With assistance from the Radulovacki Fund, GHS and Accelerated Public Health Program alumna Lyra Johnson (pictured right) traveled to Durban to attend the South African Tuberculosis Conference in June, where she presented her research on TB stigma in Cape Town.
Sponsorship from the Bernick Fund enabled GHS 4th year student Sophia Akinboro to realize her dream to study abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland this fall 2024, where her program focused on the intersectionality of medicine and global systems. The Bernick Fund also supported A’naiya Johnson’s study abroad experience at the Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao, Spain in summer 2024.
The Mabie Family Fund enabled two students to engage in opportunities over the summer. GHS student Kidman Ip to participate in the Partners in Health Engage Training Institute in summer 2024, which focused on Tuberculosis advocacy, as well as training students on global health advocacy, community building, and fundraising. Meanwhile, support from the Mabie family supported GHS student Sanjana Shankar in a summer research internship with the Mothers and Babies team at the Center for Community Health within Feinberg School of Medicine, and their fund also supported NU student group Community Health Corps, which provides accurate health information and CPR training in Evanston and Skokie.
And finally, a huge shout out to the Kirkpatrick and Heisley Stoeckel Funds, which help the GHS Program broadly with a wide variety of initiatives.
We remain deeply grateful to our donors, whose generosity is so central to enabling GHS to enhance learning, teaching, and professional opportunities!