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We are always looking for creative ways to tell a story.  If you are an NU FSM student who would like to contribute your photos or stories to this page, please email the Center for Global Health's Communications Manager, Adela Mizrachi, at a-mizrachi@northwestern.edu.

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students that have completed global health rotations come back with some amazing stories, videos and photos. Here are just a few.

Allison's Journey in Uganda - FSM M4 student spent a month in Kampala, Uganda.  This is a blog about her experience. 


Naraneta Crossing - blog by Nicole Marie Rose Araneta while taking time off between years three and four to live in Guatemala, where she is studying Spanish, volunteering with a clinic, and learning from the doctors, midwives, teachers, and people of Xela.


Then Caleb Thought - blog by Caleb Hsieh while doing his global health rotation in Kampala, Uganda at Makerere University


The Marabou Stork - blog by Nina Lu while doing her global health rotation in Kampala, Uganda at Makerere University


A Bridge to Kacllaraccay - blog by Joe Brown while working an independent project in Kacllaraccay, Peru.


Dr. Maxwell Akanbi, a doctor from Nigeria, talks about medicine and health in Nigeria:


Jefferson Jones, a 4th year medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses his one year rotation at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia:


Sara Patrawala, a 4th year medical student at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, discusses her one year rotation at the Charite in Berlin, Germany:


Cristiana Hentea, currently an M4 at FSM, discusses her 6 week rotation in Uganda as an M1:

This page last updated May 2, 2013

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