Gynecology and Obstetrics

• Number of positions
  • U.S.: 2 (1 physician and 1 School of Nursing PhD student)
  • LMIC: 2 – 4 (1 – 2 physicians and 1 – 3 nurses or midwives)

• Ethics and professionalism
• Inter-professional practice, collaboration and partnering
• Clinical knowledge and skills
• Research: focus on implementation science
• Sociocultural, gender and political awareness
• Globalization of health and health care and health systems
• Health systems and capacity strengthening
• Programmatic development, implementation, management and evaluation

Fellows will achieve the following objectives through individual scholarship, group-based program implementation and direct mentorship during the two-year program:

• Develop knowledge, skills and attitudes essential to the provision of complex clinical care that addresses disparities in health care access and outcomes with women living in lower resource settings.
• Gain experience in women’s health program design, implementation and evaluation, including an understanding of funding avenues, partnership, capacity building, quality improvement and sustainability.
• Build cultural and ethical competency in women’s health practice, education and research.
• Develop knowledge and experience in diverse research designs and methods applicable to programs to address the needs of women in lower resource settings, with a focus on implementation science.
• Provide opportunities for networking, partnerships and bidirectional collaborations in teaching and research with women’s health faculty members, program implementers, trainees and policy makers from sites in one or more developing countries.
• Develop multidisciplinary and inter-professional collaborations to advance women's health care, education and research.

Over the course of the two to three-year program (physician fellows 2 years, nursing fellows may extend to 3 years), fellows will participate in conferences, journal clubs, online learning exchanges, and self-paced learning through a library of online courses to address core competencies. The US-based physician fellow will also have clinical responsibilities at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital. The US-based nurse and physician fellows and the LMIC fellows will be integrated into ongoing Jhpiego projects and are also encouraged to work together to develop and implement research projects in focused countries.

View our Program Timeline PDF for a full breakdown of objectives by year.

Depending on the project, fellows can anticipate spending 1 to 2 months per year in a specific country as part of the program. The below countries have Jhpiego/JH offices or programs and one of these will be chosen jointly by the fellows and core faculty for their focused work: