Global Scholars Program - Tulane University

Huge congrats to all our May Global Scholar graduates! 🎓 A special shout-out to our coordinator, Casey. We’re going to miss you so much! Thank you for your hard work and dedication to GSP, wishing you the best in your next chapter! ✨

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us for ‘Packing with a Purpose’ in early April!📦😎
We had a fantastic turnout and are so excited to use these essential packages to support our New Orleans neighbors.💜💚

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us in early April to support the ! We always have such a blast working with their team and helping keep our city green🌳🦎

You've worked hard enough, come hang out for a little while! I heard there will be (optional) salsa dancing!

Salud, the Latinx Affinity Group, and Global Scholars are throwing an end of year party to celebrate the work we've done, and take a little breather from the work we've got left to do.

There will be food and refreshments provided. And dancing. There's basically no reason not to come!

Details:
Friday, April 24 from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM

Diboll Gallery
1440 canal St. Tidewater Building
New Orleans, Louisiana

Going out with a bang for our last meeting of the semester, Thursday April 16th at 12PM in room 1201!!

Come hear from Dr. Emily Sonneveldt, who is the Director for the Center of M&E and Advocacy at Avenir Health, Adjunct Faculty for the Center for Reproductive Health Policy and Programs at Tulane and much more! She'll be talking about her experience and we'll give you all some closing thoughts on the year. Maybe we'll share some excerpts from our upcoming issue of the Internationalist! Who knows, its all to play for.

A little about Dr. Sonneveldt from the Center for Reproductive Health Policy and Programs: Dr. Sonneveldt is the Director of M&E and Advocacy at Avenir Health and the Director of the Track20 Project. She currently leads activities that focus on monitoring of health programs, increased data utilization at the national and global levels, and developing and applying innovative tools and models that support data-based decision-making. She has extensive experience supporting governments to develop, implement, and monitor health policies, including facilitation of goal setting and priority identification workshops that have resulted in policy and priority changes. She has performed district and national level applications of computer models focusing on family planning, safe motherhood, post-abortion care, and the impact of rapid population growth on development. She has worked implementing health programs in Africa and the Balkans and served as a technical advisor for policy, advocacy, and research activities in Africa, the Caribbean, Southern Asia, and Eastern Europe. Her primary areas of expertise are family planning and maternal health. Dr. Sonneveldt has an MPH and a Ph.D. in Public Health from Tulane University.

Thanks to for letting us stretch our green thumbs and enjoy the sun at their beautiful space. Look for our announcement on Friday about the service opportunities we have for after the break!

Thanks to everyone who came out to our most recent events, it's been a very service oriented 9 days!

A special thanks to Jack O'Rourke, and everyone who came out to hear his presentation last Tuesday. For those interested in humanitarian and global health work, his advice was very welcome guidance for those entering into a public health landscape with a far different funding environment than we've experienced before.

Digging composts, moving cinderblocks, taking care of saplings, and contending with a couple unruly ants was a great way to help protect Louisiana watersheds that shield us from salt water incursion and keep families where they are without worrying about the sea coming to meet them. Thank you so much for a wonderful opportunity to get into the weeds (literally and metaphorically) on some great ecological work.

Thanks to everyone who submitted their stories, poems, games, and global health experience to the Internationalist! We're so excited to show you what our students and professors have to share!