Each year, Medical Missionaries appoints Global Health Fellows who serve for a year at St. Joseph Clinic in Thomassique, Haiti. They assist the Haitian doctors, nurses and midwives, oversee health-related programs to provide nutritional supplements and potable water, and assist visiting teams of doctors, nurses, and dentists who volunteer to help the sick in Thomassique.

Introducing our 2012-2013 Global Health Fellows!

Medical Missionaries announces the appointment of Danielle Baack and John Power as Global Health Fellows for 2012 - 2013. The Fellows will defer going to medical school for one year to serve the health needs of the poor at St. Joseph Clinic in Thomassique, Haiti.

Danielle and John will begin their Fellowships at St. Joseph Clinic in June 2012. Until then, as they complete their undergraduate coursework, they will be learning Haitian Creole, the language spoken by the people they will be serving at the Clinic.

Danielle Baack will graduate from Arizona State University in May 2012 with a degree in Economics and a certificate in Arabic Studies.

She has also taken many pre-medical courses, including training in biostatistics at North Carolina State University and the Duke Clinical Research Institute, and currently serves as epidemiological research assistant. Previously, she researched screening methods for post-partum depression in an urban pediatric practice in Virginia.

Her current research examines the efficacy of the EPA's Air Quality Index program and the role of information in public health. Danielle is founder and president of the Arizona State University Coalition for Human Rights.

Danielle has volunteered and pursued studies in Hungary, Romania, Morocco, Israel, Palestine, Togo, Ghana and Mexico. She is fluent in French and Arabic.

A 2011 Truman Scholar, Danielle intends to pursue a joint MD-MPH program following her Fellowship.

John Power is a pre-medical student who will graduate from Johns Hopkins University in May 2012 with a degree in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. He currently serves as an intern for Empowerment Health, a non-governmental organization that works to combat maternal and infant mortality in Kabul, Afghanistan.

He also serves as a writer and editor for The Triple Helix, a journal that brings together issues of science, technology, and society.

John spent a summer working in Kibera, Africa’s second largest slum, for the CDC's Global Disease Detection program in Kenya. He has also researched schizophrenia with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine's Division of Neurobiology and the Stanley Division of Developmental Neurovirology.

John grew up in many countries in the developing world including Jordan, the Philippines, Egypt, and Kenya and is fluent in French.

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