Trainee Advisory Committee

Co-Chairs

Ayesha Ali, University of Health Sciences-Pakistan

Hannah Stewart, The University of Texas Health Science Center-Houston

Members

Abena A. Otchere-Darko, African Forum for Research and Education in Health

Alenna Beroza, Medical College of Wisconsin

Alicia Yang, Arnhold Institute for Global Health

Amoo Oluwaseun Paul, Pneuma Research Institute

Bernard Owusu Agyare, Georgetown University

Bismark Baafi, BRAC University

Bona Dzekem, University of Chicago

Chukwuagoziem Iloanusi, University of Uyo

Cynthia Lamisi Anaba, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Darwin Del Castillo, University of Washington

Kaylee H. Paulsgrove, Washington State University

Kumar Abhishek, Dr. Baba Saheb Ambedkar Medical College and Hospital

Madhushree Zope, University of Alabama-Birmingham

Olivia Yale, University of California

Rachel Maina, Aga Khan University

Ramsha Zainab Malik, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen

Sima Sharma Tiwari, North Eastern University

Shukanto Das, University of Edinburgh-UK

Sydney Bertram, Medical University of South Carolina

Tomás Delgado Manea, University of Southern California

Trainee Advisory Committee Application

The Trainee Advisory Committee (TAC) accepts new applications annually. Applications generally open in the Fall. There will be an informational webinar beforehand for those interested in applying. Follow us on Twitter (@CUGH_TAC) and Facebook (@CUGHTAC) for the webinar date, registration details, and for more information on when the application season opens this year.

Campus Representative Program

Team lead: Sarah Matthews

The Campus Representative program allows trainees outside of TAC to become liaisons between their institutions and CUGH through bidirectional information sharing of institution needs and interests as well as CUGH resources. Campus Representatives become the voice of active global health efforts at their institutions, work with TAC members, network with one another, and provide key perspectives to the greater CUGH community. Campus representatives also receive free individual CUGH membership while they serve in this role. Currently, Campus Reps are able to partner with TAC through its advocacy project. See the section on “Student and Trainee Advocacy Interest Assessment Project” for more information.

How to become a Campus Representative

Applications to be a Campus Representative (CR) occur annually around mid-August. Follow us on Twitter (@CUGH_TAC) and Facebook (@CUGHTAC) for more information on when and where to apply.  Note that there is no limit to the number of students from an institution that can serve as a CR. The 2020 call for CRs is open. Complete the form to apply.

Webinars and Presentations

How to Become a Campus Representative

How to Inform, Inspire, & Mobilize the Public to Save Lives and Save Our Planet

CUGH Young Global Health Professional Network (CYGHPN)

To allow an opportunity for early-career global health practitioners and students to network worldwide, CUGH has created the Young Global Health Professional Network. Its purpose is to provide such a global network where students and young global health professionals can connect, share interests, advice, and opportunities. Membership is free and open to anyone under the age of 40 by December 31st of the current year.

Student and Trainee Advocacy Interest Assessment Project

Project lead: Sarah Matthews

We believe that supporting and developing advocacy efforts is a key part of making change in our local community, state, country, and globally. Whether this is through petitions, educational gatherings, or reaching out to officials, part of making effective change is contributing to change on the policy level. However, as we are only 25 individuals, we do not believe it is possible for us to conceptualize the advocacy issues that mean the most to students from around the world. The aim of this project therefore, is to collect information from global health students and trainees (internationally and domestically) on their priority issues in order to inform advocacy efforts. The goal is to produce data-driven results of the top global health issues to present to the A&C committee/CUGH in order to inform efforts and communicate trainee priorities. Volunteers from TAC and Campus Reps will be invited to participate.

Student Ethnic, Academic, and Gender Diversity in Global Health Project

Project Lead: Priscilla Auguste

The CUGH TAC aims to promote ethnic, academic,and gender diversity among students/trainees in global health. Currently, our membership is 64% female, comes from 22 different institutions, 9 different countries, across 3 continents and study nursing, medicine, public health, and other diverse academic backgrounds. However, we still believe that we can do more to engage students across the globe as we strongly believe that there is a place for everyone and every academic field within global health. We therefore are making it our goal to expand our outreach to students/trainees from all over the world to contribute to global health work through one of the following ways: 1) becoming active at their own institution and/or local community 2) joining the Trainee Advisory Committee to aid us in providing a diverse student/trainee voice to CUGH 3) joining the Campus Representative Program (CRP) so that we can keep student global health programs in institutions all over the world connected in a vast network that aims to make each individual student program stronger. To meet these goals TAC has begun measuring diversity within its organization and the CRP in order to monitor growth. We also endeavor to modify our marketing programs in order to welcome and target a broader audience to join global health organizations through one of the three above mechanisms.

Student and Trainee Contribution to the COVID-19 Response and Recovery

Project Leads: Tommaso Ivan Pomerani and Ryan Hodgeman

When COVID19 began to emerge as a worldwide pandemic, students across the world found themselves benched in various ways as it became necessary to transition to online learning experiences. Rather than sit back on the side lines, we watched as students all over found various ways to contribute to the efforts of the growing pandemic. We strongly felt therefore that it was necessary for us to give honor and celebrate what these students were doing, specifically highlighting the positive impact their work has had on their community. We are doing this through social media marketing and through a written and possibly video recorded collection of submitted stories.

Underrepresented Minorities Student Advocacy Group

Project Oversight: Priscilla Auguste

Team Lead: Emma Herbach

The Underrepresented Minorities Student Advocacy Group is a 1-year conjoint effort of seven students (Both TAC and Non-TAC members) who came together to discuss issues of diversity in secondary and post-secondary institutions. Work involved laying out the issues and researching and discussing solutions. The resultant paper entitled “Promoting Health Equity by Increasing the Representation of Minorities in Secondary and Post-Secondary Education in the United States".  

Check out the resource on the resource library page. 

Student Debt Advocacy Group

Project Oversight: Priscilla Auguste

Team Lead: Shangir Siddique

The Student Debt Advocacy Group is a 1-year conjoint effort of eight students (Both TAC and Non-TAC members) who came together to discuss issues of student debt in post-secondary and graduate institutions. Work involved laying out the issues and researching and discussing solutions. The resultant paper entitled “Implications of Student Debt in the US and Multidimensional Solutions to Address It”. 

The resource can be found on the resources page.