Leadership and Public Service-International Education and Research- Tufts University

Leadership and Public Service

Faculty and students at Tufts contribute to the global conversation within their individual disciplines by providing informed insights and original scholarship to colleagues in academia as well as to leaders in many fields. They contribute to policy decisions, advise the decision-makers, write for scholarly and popular journals, and conduct research to advance the understanding of international issues. Their passion for understanding and influencing global affairs is equaled only by their accessibility and commitment to solving problems across borders.

In addition to studying world problems, our students, alumni and faculty contribute countless hours serving the public by volunteering their time and talent. Worldwide, you can find Tufts representatives engaging in humanitarian expeditions, staffing public clinics and conducting student teaching, to name just a few. The university wholeheartedly supports public service endeavors financially and academically.

Anthropology

Anthropology at Tufts provides students not only with a strong background in critical thinking, analysis, and writing, but also with first-hand experience through original field research. The combination of intellectual community, disciplinary breadth, global and local understanding, hands-on research and public engagement makes anthropology a strong liberal arts major and an excellent preparation for both graduate school and a wide range of careers.

http://ase.tufts.edu/anthropology/about.html

Asian Studies

The Asian Studies major provides students with a strong foundation in an Asian language and expertise drawn from a variety of disciplines. Tufts students who have majored in Asian Studies have pursued careers in international organization, government, business, and teaching.

http://ase.tufts.edu/grall/asian/

Borghesani Memorial Prize

This prize is awarded to second-semester sophomores and juniors who undertake a research project, internship, volunteer activity, or plan of study in any field involving international issues. The prize encourages personal growth and independence, while increasing one's understanding of all peoples and encouraging a commitment to the world community. Past recipients of the prize have traveled abroad in order to study, conduct research, participate in international internships, and become involved in social change movements.

http://ase.tufts.edu/ir/researchOppBorghesani.htm

Center for International Environmental and Resource Policy (CIERP)

Established in 1990 to support the growing demand for international environmental leaders, the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy's mission is to educate students to become policy and decision-makers who will keep environmental concerns at the forefront of the national agenda. Through the Center, students develop the skills necessary to formulate effective environmental strategies and solutions.

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/ierp/

Cuban Experience: Graduate Research Internships in Cuba

This internship is one of many opportunities at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The program enables graduate students across the schools at Tufts to pursue short-term research internships in Cuba in the fields of education, agriculture, health, the environment and cultural studies. Contact the Latino Center for more information.

http://ase.tufts.edu/latinocenter/Index.html

Engineers Without Borders

Engineers Without Borders (EWB) promotes international awareness and responsibility by completing engineering projects designed to improve the standard of living in developing areas. EWB provides a forum and community for engineers and non-engineers alike to learn about developing countries, their cultures, and the development issues facing them. Students have worked on a model green building in Ecuador and water filtration in El Salvador in an effort to build a better world, one community at a time.

http://ase.tufts.edu/ewb

EPIIC

The Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC) program is a carefully integrated multidisciplinary program which, through its innovative and rigorous curricula and projects, prepares undergraduates to lead their communities -- local, national and global. Each year, EPIIC explores one broad global dilemma and provokes students to explore its complexity. High intellectual engagement, passion, and genuine objectivity have been the standard of EPIIC: the cornerstone of Tufts University's international relations education for the 21st century.

http://www.epiic.org

EXPOSURE

EXPOSURE is the Institute for Global Leadership's photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights program, dedicated to mentoring and developing young, knowledgeable photojournalists and documentary filmmakers. EXPOSURE's instructors include preeminent photographers from VII Photo Agency and other distinguished journalists who help run the program's hands-on workshops in Kosovo, Argentina and Philadelphia. These workshops are designed to examine the media's role in exposing the public to important social and international issues.

Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies

The mission of the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies is to create an academic environment for the promotion of greater understanding of the Eastern Mediterranean's rich culture and heritage, and the significant challenges which face this region in the 21st century, focusing on Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and their neighboring countries. The Center acts as a focal point for cross-regional and cross-cultural analysis, providing a forum for the articulation of diverse viewpoints: an effective means of conflict resolution.

http://farescenter.tufts.edu

Feinstein International Center

The Feinstein International Center strives to improve the lives and livelihoods of communities caught up in emergencies, war, and other humanitarian crises. Established in 1996 as part of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, the Center conducts field-based research in complex emergency situations on the politics and policy of helping the vulnerable. It works in partnership with national and international organizations to bring about institutional changes that enhance effective policy reform and promote best practices.

http://fic.tufts.edu

Fletcher Global Women Mentor Program

This program is designed to help undergraduates majoring in International Relations explore educational opportunities and define career goals through connections with female role models engaged in private, public, and not-for-profit professions. Fletcher students from the Global Women Group are paired with undergraduates according to regional, academic, or professional interests at the beginning of each academic year.

http://ase.tufts.edu/ir/leadership.htm

Food Policy and Applied Nutrition

Built around a high-quality, multidisciplinary teaching and research curriculum, the FPAN program seeks to equip students with the diverse skills and comprehensive knowledge base needed to make a successful impact on food policy and nutrition intervention worldwide. With its three fields of specialization, FPAN provides conceptual and analytical skills, as well as a solid foundation in applied statistics and research in the technical aspects of program planning, design, implementation, and evaluation.

http://nutrition.tufts.edu/1177953852922/

Ghana Gold: A Corporate Social Responsibility Study Tour

The Ghana Gold program takes 16 students to Ghana for 12 days each January. Students are introduced to Africa through examination of the gold mining industry and a series of interrelated issues, such as globalization and Africa's place in the world economy. Participants will be challenged to think about strategies that may improve the lives of people living in mining communities. Post-tour activities include a spring semester colloquium and plans for civic engagement research.

http://ase.tufts.edu/anw/

Global Development and Environment Institute

The Global Development and Environment Institute (G-DAE) was established to investigate how nations and societies at differing stages of economic development can pursue development in an environmentally and socially sustainable manner. It also seeks to assist the public and private sectors in creating policies that promote sustainability. Through research, curriculum development, a visiting scholars program, conferences, and faculty seminars, the institute offers opportunities for shared activities between the Fletcher School and Graduate and Professional Studies; it also provides employment opportunities for graduate students.

http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae

Global Health MPH Concentration

The Global Health Master's Degree in Public Health at Tufts University School of Medicine is designed for students who anticipate studying, identifying, and solving public health problems in a global environment. It seeks to provide students with an interdisciplinary set of skills; to prepare them to recognize biomedical, social, economic, and other factors that affect health; and to identify, design, monitor, and implement interventions that address health disparities. The concentration takes full advantage of the great breadth of global health-related courses and scholarship at Tufts.

http://www.tufts.edu/med/education/phpd/mph/concentrations

Global Leadership Seminar

The Global Leadership Seminar seeks to raise transcontinental awareness by convening representatives from three continents to discuss contemporary global issues. This seminar fosters dialogue between students, faculty members, and practitioners from Europe, the United States, and Asia. It has two components: a seminar for students from Fletcher, the University of St. Gallen, the College of Europe, and the National University of Singapore, and a seminar for distinguished practitioners of international affairs.

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/global/

Global Masters of Arts Program (GMAP)

The Global Masters of Arts Program at the Fletcher School is an intensive, year-long graduate program that combines three two-week residency sessions with Internet-mediated study and discussions to enable mid-career professionals to find better, more innovative solutions to global problems without leaving their current positions. GMAP helps participants understand the complex and nuanced intersections between the worlds of international business, international organizations and NGOs, and governments. GMAP II expands upon the groundwork laid in the first session, and comprises primarily professionals interested in security issues.

http://fletcher.tufts.edu/gmap/default.html

Hickey-Peyton International Travel Fellowship

The Hickey-Peyton Travel Fellowship was established through an anonymous gift to the Tufts School of Medicine to support students interested in public health research/activities in international settings. It is hoped that, by taking advantage of this opportunity, students will gain a broader perspective on the roles of public health and medical care practice. Fellowships are awarded annually to first-year medical students.

http://www.tufts.edu/med/phfm/news.htm

Innovative Curricula in Water & International Research

The Innovative Curricula in Water & International Research is a five-year NIH-funded "Roadmap" program. Its goal is twofold: to develop and implement a health and water curriculum in the new Tufts University Water: Systems, Science, and Society interdisciplinary program, and to create novel interdisciplinary Internet-based curricula linking Tufts University with East African public health educators, researchers, and institutions.

http://www.tufts.edu/med/education/globhealthedexp.html

Institute for Global Leadership

The mission of the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) is to prepare new generations of critical thinkers for effective and ethical leadership, ready to act as global citizens in addressing international and national issues across cultures. The Institute emphasizes rigorous academic preparation and experiential learning. Students learn through intensive engagement in classes, global research, internships, workshops, simulations and international symposia -- all involving national and international leaders from the public and private sectors.

http://www.tuftsgloballeadership.org/

International Institute for Prosthetic Rehabilitation of Landmine Survivors

The International Institute for Prosthetic Rehabilitation of Landmine Survivors is a Tufts-affiliated non-profit organization which strives to help landmine survivors regain their quality of life. The Institute was founded in April 1998 to contribute to the international effort to rehabilitate amputees, especially civilians, many of whom are children.

http://www.tufts.edu/med/IPRLS/home.html

International Relations

Since its inception, the Program in International Relations at Tufts has devoted itself to two intertwined objectives: the promotion of responsible, engaged citizenship through international education and dialogue, and the fostering of intellectual excellence through a curriculum that integrates disciplines in the social sciences, humanities and natural sciences without compromising academic rigor. In the process, it has grown into one of Tufts most popular majors and earned a reputation that extends well beyond the university.

http://ase.tufts.edu/ir/

Journal of Humanitarian Assistance

The Journal of Humanitarian Assistance (JHA) promotes the exchange of new ideas, previously unpublished research and the critical write-up of field experience by field workers and researchers in humanitarian assistance. JHA offers the humanitarian assistance community the opportunity to receive and provide rapid public feedback on cutting-edge ideas. This community includes humanitarian field workers and agency officials, scholars and researchers, government officials and residents of countries affected by crises and disasters, and donor agency officials. The JHA is published by the Feinstein International Center, part of the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.

http://www.jha.ac/

Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance

The Master of Arts in Humanitarian Assistance (MAHA) is a one-year joint degree offered by the Friedman School and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. In conjunction with the Feinstein International Center, the program was designed for mid-career professionals who have significant field experience in humanitarian assistance. Practitioners study humanitarian theories, programs, and policies.

http://fic.tufts.edu/?pid=15&c=16

Mercaz Gil Technical Assistance and Professional Development Center

In his capacity as a senior consultant, Professor Don Wertlieb collaborates with the Municipality Department of Social Welfare in Haifa, Israel, in the design, implementation and evaluation of programs at the Beit Maya Parent Child Center and Mercaz Gil TA & PD Center. The goal is to enhance mental health and social services for challenged and special-needs families. Recently launched action research on resiliency has engaged the University of Haifa as well.

Peace and Justice Studies

The Peace and Justice Studies program (PJS) provides an interdisciplinary structure for examining the paths and obstacles to achieving global peace. The program brings intellectual and experiential inquiry to the fundamental interrelationship of peace and justice. Four overlapping areas are emphasized: the study of the causes of war and the techniques of war prevention; the origins, strategies, and visions of social movements seeking social justice and ecological sustainability; the theory and practice of conflict resolution along a continuum from individual disputes to international diplomacy; and the study of peace culture, particularly the contributions of education and literature in developing the traditions of nonviolence and ethical social behavior.

http://ase.tufts.edu/pjs/

Sustainable Sweden Tour and Internships in Swedish Eco-Municipalities

Sweden is developing a growing number of "eco-municipalities" in which the principles of sustainable development are put into practice at the municipal level. For the past two years, Urban Environmental Policy and Planning students, with help from the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service and Tufts Institute for the Environment, have arranged their own Sustainable Sweden tours and internships in a variety of eco-municipalities. Students then spend the second half of their internship in a U.S. municipality that has the potential to become an eco-municipality.

The Quito Integrated Environment and Policy (QUIEP) Program

This three-year National Institutes of Health-funded program, directed by Dr. Jeffrey Griffiths, represents an international collaboration to encourage research in developing countries on topics that combine the issues of health, environment, and economic development. The goal is to improve understanding of the relationships between these topics and to help guide policy. The program encourages faculty and student exchanges at the Schools of Medicine, Engineering, and Fletcher.

The Talloires Network

The Talloires Network is a collective of individuals and institutions committed to promoting the civic roles and social responsibilities of higher education. It seeks to foster exchange of best practices and encourage collective action. At the initial conference in Talloires, France, on September 17, 2005, participants signed the Talloires Declaration on the Civic Roles and Social Responsibilities of Higher Education, demonstrating their commitment to elevating the civic and social mission of their university.

http://www.tufts.edu/talloiresnetwork

Tufts Uganda Internship Program

In summer 2005, under the coordination of the IR Assistant Director, Tufts interns worked with Friends of Orphans, the United Movement To End Child Soldiering in Uganda, and community leaders in planning, developing, implementing and sustaining a broad range of projects. TUIP was developed out of a student research project, and is a collaboration with the International Relations Program, Tisch College for Citizenship and Public Service, Peace and Justice Studies, and IGL.

http://ase.tufts.edu/pangea/uganda.html

<h4>A Dental Education Delivered to your Doorstep</h4>

<p>Unlike most first-year students at Tufts, the students in the School of Dental Medicine's distance education program -- the first of its kind in the world -- don't get together on campus for study groups. Instead, they remain in constant communication with the school and each other from their homes around the world as they earn their M.S. degrees in craniofacial pain and temporomandibular joint disorder.</p>

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<p>Dr. Jeffrey Griffiths, an associate professor of public health and family medicine, is always on the go. But then he needs to be: he is bent on nothing less than changing the world. What makes him run? "I'd just like the world to be a better place when I go," he says. "And it's fun doing this stuff."</p>

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<h4>A Mission to Help </h4>

<p>During the summer of 2007, Tufts dental student Marjorie Brisard traveled to her native Haiti this summer with a team of classmates and faculty members. For Brisard, the trip was one step toward fulfilling a life's goal.</p>

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<p>Working for the United Nations Mission in Sudan gave two Fletcher School students a unique view into an international peacekeeping operation and a new outlook on the Darfur conflict.</p>

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<h4>Bienvenue à Talloires</h4>

<p>The Tufts in Talloires program allows students to explore a foreign culture -- and themselves.</p>

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<h4>Castle in the Clouds </h4>

<p>Elliot Hirshon (A'05) recalls a trip to Tibet with Engineers Without Borders.</p>

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<h4>Change Agent</h4>

<p>Salome Otami, a Tufts Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development graduate student, hopes to make a difference when she returns to her native Ghana.</p>

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<h4>Connecting Across Continents </h4>

<p>Students in GMAP, a combined residency and Internet-mediated graduate program at Tufts University's Fletcher School, are gaining an interdisciplinary education in global affairs, while making lifelong connections with their classmates from around the world.</p>

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<h4>Deliverance</h4>

<p>Through the organization he founded, LimaKids, Joseph Donroe (A'98, MD/MPH'07) seeks to address both mental health and quality of life issues of orphaned children in Peru's capital city.</p>

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<h4>Depth of Field</h4>

<p>One of several programs offered by the Tufts Institute for Global Leadership (IGL), EXPOSURE is an institute for photojournalism, documentary studies and human rights. It all began when IGL Director Sherman Teichman and undergraduate Matthew Edmundson (A'05) teamed up with acclaimed photographer James Nachtwey.</p>

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<h4>Dr. Chotanga</h4>

<p>Jeffrey Lazar, M03, recalls his seven-week stint at Livingstone General Hospital in Zambia.</p>

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<h4>Growing Strong</h4>

<p>The New Entry Sustainable Farming Project (NESFP), part of the Agriculture, Food and Environment Program at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, was founded in 1998. It now serves about 50 immigrant farmers from Laos, Cambodia, Liberia, Ghana, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, and Kenya.</p>

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<h4>It's All Breaking New Ground</h4>

<p>As the directors of Tufts University's Nutrition/ Infection Unit, Drs. Christine Wanke, MD, and Sherwood Gorbach, MD, explore the link between nutrition and HIV/AIDS.</p>

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<h4>Making Its Mark </h4>

<p>A decade after its inception, Tufts University's Feinstein International Center is making a powerful impact on humanitarian work around the world.</p>

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<h4>Re-engineering a River</h4>

<p>Applying engineering principles to primary disease prevention can help bolster public health efforts, says David Gute, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Tufts.</p>

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<h4>Summer Smarts</h4>

<p>Through Tufts Summer Scholars program, Jamie Chang (A'06) spent a summer in Korea exploring her passion for theater history. With support from her faculty mentor, she studied how contemporary Korean theater incorporates traditional performance forms, such as one-man operas and masked dances.</p>

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<h4>True Blessings</h4>

<p>Sue Higgins, T86, G02, has seen firsthand the difference occupational therapy can make in the lives of adults and children living in Mexico.</p>

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<h4>Welcome to America </h4>

<p>In 2000, Jane Leu (J'91) founded Upwardly Global, a San Francisco nonprofit dedicated to helping legal immigrants find work in their field. Today, with more than a dozen employees and a field office in Manhattan, the organization has assisted immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers from some 65 countries.</p>

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<h4>Welcome To Arada Vieja </h4>

<p>Jonny Crocker (E'07), the former president of Engineers Without Borders, talks about the group's water filtration project in rural El Salvador.</p>

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