06/22/2026
🎉 Congratulations to Breman Fellowship recipient Madeline Garcia!
The Breman Global Health Immersion Fellowship, funded through a generous donation from the Breman family, deepens students’ engagement and approaches to addressing health problems in low- and middle-income countries. The fellowship supports students interested in global health and public service careers by funding field, programmatic, clinical or laboratory research experience.
✈️ Following a competitive selection process, Madeline Garcia, a medical student at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, was awarded the prestigious Breman Global Health Immersion Fellowship. This summer, Madeline will travel to Mexico to examine if and how recent abortion decriminalization rulings translate into access to reproductive healthcare for young women. Stay tuned as she shares her research highlights!
06/15/2026
Another year of Global Health Governance and Diplomacy in Practice has wrapped! Over the course of two weeks, twelve USC students embarked on a whirlwind tour of the 79th World Health Assembly on the ground in Geneva. During the Assembly week, students attended and engaged with policy makers and researchers at a range of side events, pursuing their own research interests ranging from healthy aging to maternal health to mental health in post-conflict settings. Following this, the delegation met with Geneva-based organizations and agencies including WHO, OHCHR, WTO, IFRC, PMNCH, CRR, SRHM, ICJ, and UNAIDS, each of which generously opened their doors to us and offered up amazing speakers who offered a wealth of knowledge and experience in their respective domains.
Beyond this, our delegation benefitted from many other enriching experiences, including:
🌟 Supporting the PMNCH team to host “Lives in the Balance: Financing, Rights, and Action for Women, Children, and Adolescents” — which brought together partners from civil society, government, multilateral agencies, youth movements and the private sector to address the question of how we protect what matters most in a changing world.
🌟 Individual sessions with Dr. Daniel Tarantola, Dr. Venkatraman Chandra-Mouli, and Lucinda O’Hanlon, who generously shared not only their deep global health expertise, but also their storied career journeys.
🌟 Hearing from Allan Maleche and Timothy Wafula of KELIN on their work to tackle human rights violations and address the root cause of health inequalities in Kenya and around the world through their powerful legal work and advocacy.
🌟 A celebratory reception hosted by Eszter Kismödi of Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters to cap off an action packed first week of WHA side events.
… and much more. We are deeply grateful to our wonderful partners who made such an incredible learning experience possible, and to the students who brought their curiosity, passion, and energy to these past two weeks.
