Leah Shipton, part of AKU's 2015 International Internship Programme 2015 cohort, is one of three winners of the Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium 2017 Student Essay Competition.
Leah’s winning research paper examined the extent to which international human rights instruments are protecting the right to health of Guatemala’s indigenous population. Her essay explores how the health of indigenous people is closely related to the wellbeing of their land making commercial mining activities in their area a direct risk to their wellbeing.
The paper Canada’s Mining Industry in Guatemala and the Right to Health of Indigenous Peoples has been published in the online, open access Health and Human Rights journal published by Harvard University Press and housed at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Leah’s work as a public health intern at AKU's Department of Community Health Sciences in 2015 was her first role as a global health researcher.
The programme enabled her to gain real world experience of the complexities of public health provision in rural and urban Pakistan. She credits the internship with helping her understand how issues of race, religion, gender and class interact with larger social, economic and cultural forces to impact the health, human rights, and security of people in developing countries. She is currently pursuing a master’s in public health at the University of Toronto .
The AKU’s annual International Internship Programme provides an opportunity for international students to gain career-related work experience and an insight to the developing world through a variety of opportunities based in East Africa, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia.
Leah Shipton, part of AKU's 2015 International Internship Programme 2015 cohort, is one of three winners of the Harvard FXB Health and Human Rights Consortium 2017 Student Essay Competition.
Leah’s winning research paper examined the extent to which international human rights instruments are protecting the right to health of Guatemala’s indigenous population. Her essay explores how the health of indigenous people is closely related to the wellbeing of their land making commercial mining activities in their area a direct risk to their wellbeing.
The paper Canada’s Mining Industry in Guatemala and the Right to Health of Indigenous Peoples has been published in the online, open access Health and Human Rights journal published by Harvard University Press and housed at the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Leah’s work as a public health intern at AKU's Department of Community Health Sciences in 2015 was her first role as a global health researcher.
The programme enabled her to gain real world experience of the complexities of public health provision in rural and urban Pakistan. She credits the internship with helping her understand how issues of race, religion, gender and class interact with larger social, economic and cultural forces to impact the health, human rights, and security of people in developing countries. She is currently pursuing a master’s in public health at the University of Toronto .
The AKU’s annual International Internship Programme provides an opportunity for international students to gain career-related work experience and an insight to the developing world through a variety of opportunities based in East Africa, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia.