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In celebration of a decade of Global Health Studies at Northwestern, IPD is organizing a day of events on May 8th. Please join us as we welcome back Global Health Studies alumni to speak on a panel about their careers since graduating from Northwestern. Lunch will be provided.

RSVP at Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/events/921950344496408/ 

Panelists:
- Amee Amin (WCAS ’14 – Cultural Anthropology/Global Health Studies)
- Hira T. Khan (WCAS '11 – Psychology/Global Health Studies/Cross-Genre Creative Writing)
- Hannah Badal (WCAS '10 – Political Science/Global Health Studies)
- Emery Alden Mathieson (WCAS ’11 – Political Science/Legal Studies/Global Health Studies/Chinese)
Moderated by Professor William Leonard.

Panelist Bios:
Amee Amin is the Executive Director of Article 25, a people's movement for the right to health of more than 15,000 activists across 65 countries. Amee is also a Visiting Research Fellow in the Dept. of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and she has a REAL Change Organizing and Advocacy Fellowship with the RESULTS Educational Fund. Previously Amee worked at the GlobeMed National Office as a student. She earned her BA in Cultural Anthropology and Global Health at Northwestern University in 2014. @amee_aa, @article_25, join25.org

Hannah Badal is a fellow on the Research and Evaluation Team in the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Prior to coming to CDC, Hannah worked in HIV surveillance, cancer treatment and prevention, women's health, and health education for adolescents. Hannah earned her MPH from Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education, with a certificate in Socio-contextual Determinants of Health. She is also a Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES). While at Northwestern, she was in Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators (SHAPE), Peer Health Exchange, CaribNation and studied abroad in Mexico City. She loves running, food, music festivals, and the San Francisco Giants.

After Northwestern, Hira T. Khan took her passion for global health and social justice to the University of Illinois at Chicago for a Masters of Public Health. Hira completed her practicum at a support group for young men at risk for or living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya. At UIC, Hira also participated on a project in Haiti to promote engagement in disaster risk reduction. It was in a graduate assistantship at the UIC Institute for Health Research and Policy that Hira became involved in health communications, providing support for a tobacco research project by managing the group’s website and presence on social media. Currently, Hira is a social science analyst with the Department of Veterans Affairs at the Edward Hines, Jr. VA Hospital. She divides her time between research and communications, working to improve healthcare for Veterans with complex chronic illnesses and coordinating online seminars and publications for VA researchers. www.linkedin.com/in/hiraTkhan

Coming in to Northwestern, Alden Mathieson was interested in the intersection of business, medicine, technology, and politics. He felt the Global Health Studies program presented a great opportunity to blend these interests together and found his coursework fostered a passion for improving the health of others. Following his graduation, Alden began a Masters of Public Health at Emory University, while simultaneously working at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Global Disease Detection and Emergency Response branch. He now lives in Washington, DC working at a healthcare startup named Evolent Health in the analytics department. At Evolent, Alden leads the use of geospatial analysis to design and optimize entire hospital systems, all with the focus of improving patient outcomes. Blending his public health knowledge with sophisticated analytics, he works to implement population health initiatives and identify new ways to improve care, lower costs, and boost efficiency. https://www.linkedin.com/in/emerymathieson

For more information on all our May 8th celebrations, please visit: http://www.northwestern.edu/globalhealthstudies/about/decade.html