Global Health Corps is a Win-Win Proposition: Q&A with Mead Over

September 15, 2008

Taiwan Root Medical Peace CorpsLast week’s presidential candidate forum featured John McCain and Barack Obama promising to expand domestic and international volunteer opportunities. CGD senior fellow Mead Over proposes one such opportunity, a new Global Health Corps, in CGD’s latest book, The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President. Modeled after the U.S. Peace Corps, the Global Health Corps would provide developing countries with young doctors and nurses to strengthen weak health systems – and give new American healthcare workers invaluable on-the-job training. In a Q&A, Over makes the case for a Global Health Corps in the next administration.

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