We are excited to announce that Barbara Bush will give the keynote address at the second annual END7 Student Advocacy Day on Tuesday, March 1. Ms. Bush is the CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps (GHC). GHC is a leadership development organization focused on building the next generation of global health leaders. GHC competitively recruits highly talented 21 to 30-year-olds from across sectors, geographies, and backgrounds and through a yearlong paid fellowship places them in high-impact positions with organizations on the front lines of global health equity in Malawi, Rwanda, Uganda, the United States, and Zambia.
Ms. Bush has previously worked and traveled with the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Capetown, South Africa, UNICEF in Botswana, and the UN World Food Programme. Ms. Bush is a member of UNICEF’s Next Generation Steering Committee and is on the Board of Directors of Covenant House International, PSI, Friends of the Global Fight for AIDS, TB, and Malaria, and the UN’s Global Entrepreneurship Council. She is a Draper Richards Foundation Social Entrepreneur, a World Economic Forum Young Global Shaper, and a fellow of the Echoing Green Foundation. She was named one of Glamour Magazine’s Women of the Year in 2011 and one of Newsweek’s Women of Impact in 2013. Ms. Bush graduated from Yale University with a degree in Humanities in 2004.
President George W. Bush launched the United States Agency for International Development’s Neglected Tropical Disease Program in 2006. The Program has since delivered more than 1.3 billion NTD treatments in 32 countries. At the END7 Student Advocacy Day closing reception in the Longworth House Office Building, Ms. Bush will share a reflection on shaping the next generation of global health leaders. We are honored to have her join us and meet END7 student leaders from across the United States after they meet with their representatives in Congress to advocate for funding for the USAID NTD Program.
RSVP now for the 2016 END7 Student Advocacy Day at bit.ly/END7StudentAdvocacyDay. All U.S.-based undergraduate and graduate students are invited to attend. See photos from the 2015 END7 Student Advocacy Day on .