Global Public Health

In this Brief I analyzed the causes, barriers and solutions to the Diabetes health issue in Ghana. I identified the stakeholder relationships that may be at play and expanded on the interdisciplinary frameworks that could be used to address these issues. Through this assignment I was able to dismantle my bias and gain insight into another type of health system. I was also able to compare and contrast Ghana's health system and the Untied States of America health system and the reasons they may be different due to resources, population, cultures and customs. This was a very exciting experiences, for me. I am Ghanaian-American so it was exciting to see a different part of my culture using my global health lenses. My research raised questions about the operation of health systems and interventions that were address in my future colloquium courses.

For our service day field trip Scholars received the opportunity to visit Second Chance and spend the day doing volunteer work.

Second Chance is a program that gives incarcerated people a second chance. Unfortunately those who are incarcerated and have severed time for their actions are barred from working in certain industries and careers due to their criminal record. Though with this employer they were given a second chance, hence the name. Within their positions they work on gently used and donated furniture and building components to restore it and give these peace's a second chance as well.

Working we these employees I see that they have built a environment and community that is filled with kindness and dedication. I really appreciated this experience, we as scholars got to experience and intervention and see what makes it sustainable, feasible, and appealing.

In this course we used the concepts that what we learned in: family science about the interpersonal relationships, social determinants of health; what global health was and the process of creating an intervention in colloquium 100; how to critique an intervention based on various criteria in colloquium 101 to ultimately create our own intervention in colloquium 200 based on a scenario. This was a very interesting and fun experience. Wit my team and a public health expert we develop a program based on Evolving Minds' evidence and community based program that was sustainable, effective, and feasible in a non-internet connection environment. This was a interesting experience, I was able to objectively see how what makes Evolving Minds' intervention an evidence and community based intervention. Compared to later when I became when I became and Ambassador for Evolving Minds I was able to experience the intervention and determine what components made the intervention effective and sustainable. I got to experience both lenses of implementing an intervention.