Grant Smith, of Knoxville, Tennessee, graduated summa cum laude in May 2008 with honors in psychology and a minor in biology. Grant will work with the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC)-Duke University Women's Health Collaboration in Moshi, Tanzania. This brand-new maternal health initiative, spearheaded by Duke physicians Jeffrey Wilkinson and Sumera Hayat, aims to support the KCMC Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in patient care, program development, outreach and capacity-building, and research. In addition to assisting in the implementation of this initiative, Grant will engage in community-based research aimed at furthering the goals of the collaboration. more>>

Corey Sobel graduated magna cum laude in May 2007 with honors in his self-designed major, Writing Conflict: Reporting International and Ethnic Violence. Corey will work with the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) in Northern Thailand. KHRG is a small and independent group documenting the human rights situation in rural Myanmar by working directly with rural villagers who are suffering abuses such as forced labor, systematic destruction of villages and crops, forced relocation, extortion, looting, arbitrary detention, torture, sexual assault and summary executions. In addition to completing a community-based research project for KHRG, Corey will assist with writing detailed human rights reports, coach ethnic-Karen staff in English language report-writing, and oversee KHRG's Podcast initiative. more>>

Sam Swartz, of Durham, North Carolina, graduated magna cum laude in May 2008 with a major in political science, a certificate in global health, and a minor in international comparative studies. Sam will work with the Reduction in Maternal Mortality Project (RMMP) in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. The RMMP is helping to reduce maternal mortality rates by increasing the poor's access to affordable maternal health services, with a focus on improving access to safe abortion care and long term contraceptive methods. Sam will participate in a variety of activities including routine monitoring and evaluation data collection and reporting, as well as operations research projects that examine a variety of issues, such as barriers to access to maternal health services, medical abortion, and voluntary surgical contraception. He will also complete an independent community-based research project targeted at the needs of the RMMP. more>>