Drs. Bartlett and Fockele received GO Health fellowship awards

Dr. Emily Bartlett and Dr. Callan Fockele received Global Opportunities (GO) Health fellowship awards for their planned global health work with mentors Dr. Sachita Shah, Dr. Herbie Duber, and colleagues. The purpose of the GO Health Fellowship is to provide financial assistance to a graduate student, professional student, or medical resident at the University of Washington so that they may gain valuable international fieldwork experience in global health. 

Dr. Bartlett’s project is focused in Guatemala, a country of 17 million people that recently received approval from the Ministry of Health to start its first EM residency program. The inaugural class of EM residents was enrolled in 2019, making this an exciting time for EM in the country. Dr. Bartlett will complete a baseline educational needs assessment to help guide future development of the program. She will also serve in a clinical educator role while there.

Dr. Fockele will be working with the Taranaki District Health Board, located in the rural western corner of New Zealand's North Island. This team is charged with decolonizing government policy by using the strengths and worldviews of the Maori to address local issues. Dr. Fockele will partner with local physicians and public health officers on an oral history project, where she will engage elders in a local Maori tribe, or iwi, on housing and well-being. This work is one small piece of a much larger coordinated effort by the Taranaki District Health Board to understand how racism and injustice has led to the continued health disparities of the Maori people.