Join faculty leader Sunil Khanna to learn more about the Botswana Global Health Internship Program that offers OSU students hands-on global learning, cross-cultural training, and community-based work opportunities. This program targets students from diverse academic backgrounds and interests, including public health, nursing, agricultural sciences, engineering, environmental sciences, social sciences, etc. Student interns work as part of a team of interns and professors on projects related to understanding local cultural practices and beliefs, the impact of infrastructure on everyday life and health, education and health infrastructure and services, community food and nutrition, in-clinic and outreach services provided by the local community clinic and health outposts, and related topics.

The Botswana Global Health Internship Program offers students an opportunity to gain a first-hand understanding of community perspectives on health and health care (health needs, social and cultural determinants of health, informal health care, availability and utilization of state-supported health care services, etc.); and understanding how to work with youth and community stakeholders to develop culturally sensitive, locally appropriate, and technologically innovative programming to meet the community needs in several areas, including youth employment and empowerment, children with disabilities, intimate partner violence, alcohol abuse, and sexual and reproductive health.