Healthy Head Starts Trip to the Navajo Nation

[Danny Wilson]

Hey HCGHR!

It was great to meet so many of you at our first general meeting this afternoon. This list is not typically one for spam, but I wanted to personally let you know of a trip I did my freshman j-term to New Mexico. It served as a unique introduction to global health at Harvard. Despite being in the United States, the trip confronted several global health problems that we face domestically. A big topic of conversation in the global health community focuses on the creation of "an other" -- and in global health, we often run the risk of seeing global health problems as problems "we" (well-off westerners) don't have but that "others" do. This trip dispels that notion. 

I've attached the blurb and the application. If you have any questions, email the address here or me personally. I'm no longer affiliated with the trip, but it's too important of an experience not to share with a group like ours. 

Enjoy the fleeting slices of sunlight (and explore Oktoberfest in the Square) 

-- Danny 

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Healthy Head Starts: PBHA Alternative January Break!

 

PBHA Alternative January Break is a PBHA program and an expansion of the popular and long-running Alternative Spring Break program.  This year, we are offering a unique trip that combines Health, Teaching and Service!  

 

Participants of Healthy Head Starts will work with the Indian Health Service and Navajo Nation Head Start Programs to educate families and help physicians provide critical medical care to kindergarten-aged children.  We are traveling to the Navajo Nation in New Mexico. Some aspects of the program include:

 

Working with physicians to screen children for potentially deadly diseases

 

Creating medical records for the Indian Health Service

 

Delivering critical medical supplies (glasses, hearing aids etc.)

 

Educating parents on unique issues of child health that affect Navajo Children

 

Working with kids!

 

The Program will take place January 20th-27th 2013. 

Participant Fee is $175.

 

Please fill out the attached application by Sunday, October 14th at 5 PM and return to ajbnew...@gmail.com

 

Any questions? Please email ajbnew...@gmail.com.