Global Health Service Corps (GHSC), a non-profit whose mission is to strengthen health systems globally by partnering US physicians and nurses with local educators, has changed its name to Seed Global Health.

Vanessa Kerry, chief executive officer, Seed Global Health said, “We believe our new name Seed Global Health truly captures the scope and mission of our work which is to cultivate stronger, sustainable health systems through training a new generation of physicians and nurses in countries where they are needed most. Our first class of nurses and doctors will be supported by work we have done to fund and prepare for their departure to countries in July.”

“Our name is changing, but not our innovative public-private partnership with the Peace Corps, the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) — the Global Health Service Partnership (GHSP)- and the countries where we work. We are extremely proud to be sending our first class of GHSP volunteers — 33 doctors and nurses — to serve as adjunct faculty in medical and nursing schools in Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda this July. They are truly an impressive group of nurse practitioners, midwives, paediatricians, OB/GYN’s, psychiatrists, anaesthesiologists, family and internal medicine doctors who will work with faculty in the host countries to develop curriculum and help train a new generation of doctors and nurses,” Kerry added.