Global Public Service Academy

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Life-Altering Experiences

Global Public Service Academy for Health

Maumee Valley is excited to partner with the extraordinary faculty and undergraduates from Duke University and Johns Hopkins University to become part of the Global Public Service Academy for Health.

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Benefits of Traveling with GPSA

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Develop cross-cultural understanding
Explore community and social issues
Learn about other cultures
Learn basic medical interventions
Participate in a working, immersion experience
Practice second language skills through immersion
Receive daily language instruction
Travel the world helping others

Accepted students to the GSPA program follow a curriculum developed by Duke University for high school students working in the developing world.

Students start their Intensive rotation with a one-week pre-trip session co-taught by Maumee Valley faculty and members of the GPSA faculty. During their travels, students explore the community and social issues while developing their cross-cultural understanding and learning basic medical interventions like measuring blood pressure, blood glucose, heart rate, respiration rate, and temperature. Students stay on-site with local host families, work in medical clinics, and receive daily language instruction.

This incredible opportunity allows students to participate in a working, immersion experience. While the physical and intellectual challenges of a GPSA trip are many, the rewards are great. Past students have vaccinated hundreds of children in Guatemala and Belize, screened thousands of pregnant women for life-threatening eclampsia, and provided training to tens of thousands of children about nutrition and hygiene.

Extraordinary Opportunities

GPSA for Health's program is an intensive experience for students with a passion for career paths such as a medical doctor (MD), nurse (RN, LPN), pharmacist, biomedical engineer (BME, dentist or other health occupations.

Unforgettable Experiences

A GPSA student's experience begins in their arrival city. Students live with a college leader in groups of five or six with a host family. Living with a host family creates the perfect atmosphere to practice a second language and learn from and experience culture in another country.

Hands-On Medical Learning

For clinical service, students are divided into teams led by trained college students (premeds from Duke, Johns Hopkins or similar universities) or faculty. Students learn to facilitate medical interventions and screenings (how to vaccinate, how to measure infant height and weight, how to check for diabetes, how to measure blood pressure, heart rate, etc.) and complete an introductory cultural and language training. In addition, language training is intense (two to three hours, one-on-one per day).

Cultural Exposure

Students not only learn more about healthcare, but they also get to experience a new and different culture, perhaps making some lifelong friends in the process. Participants will be making a difference and starting their medical careers now!

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Learn More Today

Global Public Service Academy

For more information about the Global Public Service Academy program and upcoming travel dates visit GPSA.org.

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