Careers in global health

Am on a small informal panel discussion end of this week at MGH on careers in global health. Kedar, Nupe and Celine helped me put together this initial tree of careers in global health to help me prepare. If you have any thoughts, please let us know on how we can improve this. Thanks -

· Academia

o university based NIH research

o center based (e.g. HIGH) or divisions of Global Health at Hospitals (Penn, Pitt, BWH, MGH, UCSF, WashU, Columbia, etc) a la Salman Keshavjee, Jim Kim

o Maintain an academic faculty position as a hospitalist or consultant essentially at 75% time and spend the rest of time abroad with another institution further down the tree

· Industry

o pharma (e.g. novartis vaccines)

o consulting (e.g. mck, broadreach)

o occupational health (e.g. mining companies, agriculture, environmental health)

· NGO/ Non profit

o country specific (e.g. PHI - haiti/Rwanda, Aurum Institute for Health Research)

o theme based (e.g. MSF, IHI - pt safety / quality)

· Foundations (Gates, Rockefeller, Clinton, KFF, Elizabeth Glaser, Doris Duke, UN Foundations)

o portfolio manager (e.g. circ funding evaluator for gates)

· US Gov't

o Development based entities (e.g. USAID)

o foreign policy based entities (e.g. state dept)

· Multilaterals

o WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA

o WB - looking for docs to help them evaluate country loan proposals and make sure funding is in line with objectives

· Advocacy

o in-country: Treatment Action Campaign, AIDS Law Project, ARASA

o US-based: Treatment Action Group

· Bioethics

· Regulatory/Intellectual property

· Think tanks e.g Council on Foreign Relations