USAID-funded BUILD project launches PHED leadership program
The USAID-funded BUILD project is pleased to announce the first cohort of its global population, health, environment and development (PHED) leadership programme.
Elizabeth (Liz) Tully is a Senior Program Officer at the Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs. She supports knowledge and program management efforts and partnership collaborations, in addition to developing print and digital content, including interactive experiences and animated videos. Her interests include family planning/reproductive health, the integration of population, health, and the environment, and distilling and communicating information in new and exciting formats. Liz holds a B.S. in Family and Consumer Sciences from West Virginia University and has been working in knowledge management for family planning since 2009.
The USAID-funded BUILD project is pleased to announce the first cohort of its global population, health, environment and development (PHED) leadership programme.
This Q&A article is with People-Planet Connection Champion, Dr. Joan L. Castro, M.D., Executive Vice-President of PATH Foundation Philippines Inc., an organization renowned for its dedication to advancing health equity and innovation.
The climate crisis demands nuanced, holistic, and equitable solutions that integrate approaches at the nexus of population, health, and gender, firmly grounded in local knowledge and needs.
This Q&A article is with People-Planet Connection Champion, Edith Ngunjiri, technical advisor for Health and Environment Partnerships at Blue Ventures.
Governments and communities can best adapt to climate change’s impacts with approaches that utilize population data in planning, reinforce agency for women and youth, and draw on local knowledge for contextual solutions.
On May 25, Knowledge SUCCESS hosted a webinar highlighting unique experiences implementing cross-sectoral integrated Population, Health, and Environment (PHE) activities in Kenya and Uganda.
CHASE Africa is a UK-based non-governmental organization that empowers rural communities in Kenya and Uganda through mobile health and family planning outreach clinics, alongside sexual and reproductive health and rights education, and support with natural resource management.
While the world’s wealthiest economies have largely driven greenhouse gas emissions through overconsumption, the effects of climate change are disproportionately felt by low- and middle-income countries, which bear the brunt of rising seas, extreme weather, drought, and desertification.
When I started the Master of Public Health program at Johns Hopkins University, I thought I knew the ins and outs of my specialty. However, for my practical experience, I wanted to steer myself away from the ideologies I had already studied and follow a different path in order to build my competency across the dynamic field that is public health.
The Rwenzori Center for Research and Advocacy, founded in 2010, is a Ugandan NGO that serves women, children, and adolescents in the poorest communities to help them access improved livelihoods, including better health care and education.
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