The Fitzhugh Mullan Health Workforce Institute at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health has announced the 2023 class of Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity (AFHE).

Twenty global leaders dedicated to combating health disparities and promoting equity will participate in a year-long non-residential program starting in January 2023. Fellows will meet in-person and virtually, diving deep on health equity topics, bolstering their leadership skills and building a global community while working with AFHE staff, faculty, and mentors on their health equity projects.

Selected from a pool of more than 400 applicants and hailing from 13 countries, the fellows include Rana al Qawasmi, a Palestinian nutritionist and public health specialist focused on strengthening and developing healthcare status and services for Palestinians; Christy Adeola Braham, a researcher and activist working at the intersection of health, labor and migration. She serves as workers' health coordinator at Women in Informal Employment – Globalizing and Organizing; Shatyam Issur, director of the Collectif Urgence Toxida, which provides harm reduction services to people who use drugs in Mauritius; and Laila Zulema García Ulloa, a pediatrician in rural Chiapas with Partners in Health Mexico.

“The newest cohort of Atlantic Fellows for Health Equity provides inspiration that health equity is achievable. They represent an incredible diversity of sectors, talents and approaches, all with a shared dedication to improving the health of communities around the world,” said Guenevere Burke, director of AFHE and an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the School of Medicine & Health Sciences. “This group will challenge and change each other and the world.”

(Photo credit: Atlantic Health Equity Fellows)