We heard many fun stories about chasing rats in guest house bedrooms and treating mosquito bites, as well as the serious work of collaborating with the local partner for the project: The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR). For my cohort, one of our professors hosted a potluck in which the second-year students shared their recent experiences in the Philippines with us first-years.
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My cohort participated in a three-week trip to the Philippines.įrom the first academic quarter in the fall, Global Health students are anticipating the ICD trip, even though it’s several months down the road. ICD provides students with a real-world setting to apply their knowledge and skills, thus, giving us a taste of a career in global health. For the ICD course, students travel to a foreign country to practice the skills learned in the Interventions class. The ICD course is a culmination of the Intervention in Community Health and Development course - one of the major classes for students of Global Health during the first three quarters of the academic year. When I got my acceptance letter for admission in the Global health MPH program at Loma Linda University School of Public Health in 2015, the Integrated Community Development course, more popularly known as ICD, was something I was particularly excited about. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” –St Augustine Written by Suhail Hashim, MPH Global Health student