Global Health Service Corps
Kerry has been active in global health for over a decade. In 2011, she started a non-profit Global Health Service Corps which has partnered with the Peace Corps to develop the Global Health Service Partnership. The Partnership will send health professionals abroad to work as medical educators and to help build capacity. The medical educators will serve as force multipliers to create new generations of skilled professionals who can help strengthen health systems. GHSC is also providing loan repayment and other stipends to help support the program's mission of service. She scribed an op-ed on this idea in the New York Times. The program is also partnering with academic medical centers such as the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health.
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