by Pritika Patel | Jan 24, 2018 | 2018, Blog
Written by: Deborah Wilson, RN, MSN, MPH, CRNI Sometimes, you make a choice that sets you on a completely different life path than you ever imagined. In 2014 when Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) asked if I would go on mission to work as a nurse during the Ebola...
by Pritika Patel | Nov 1, 2017 | 2017, Blog
Good morning. My name is Julie Anathan, Associate Chief Nursing Officer at Seed Global Health. I’d like to start by welcoming our guest speakers, Catherine D’Ignazio, Rebecca Michelson, Anna Young and Rebecca Love. Thank you for joining us and providing us with the...
by Pritika Patel | Oct 9, 2017 | 2017, Blog
Since July 2016, I have lived and worked in Malawi as part of the Global Health Service Partnership, a joint program of the Peace Corps, the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and Seed Global Health. GHSP aims to improve clinical education,...
by Pritika Patel | Sep 8, 2017 | 2017, Blog
Emily Hall, MSN, MPH is a family nurse practitioner, Global Health Science PhD candidate and clinical faculty at University of California at San Francisco. She started her work in global health as an RN, joining a group affiliated with her hospital doing work in...
by Pritika Patel | Aug 15, 2017 | 2017, Blog
The usual response I receive when I tell friends that I am going to Colombia, South America on a medical mission, is that of wide-eyed incomprehension followed by “are you safe there?” Granted, Colombia has a notorious past of violence and sophisticated drug...
by Pritika Patel | Jul 9, 2017 | 2017, Blog
Nepal had called me back again. My last visit there was 20 years ago, so I was very curious about the changes that had occurred, especially after the 2015 earthquake. I spent time in the capital city of Kathmandu, the surrounding small towns as well as a mountaintop...