Category: Maeve Kennedy McKean Global Health Award

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Jordan Pai and Kayla Wontumi Named 2025-2026 Maeve Kennedy McKean Global Health Award Recipients

The award honors the legacy of Maeve Kennedy McKean (G/L’09), who dedicated her career to advancing health equity and human rights. McKean served as executive…

December 1, 2025

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Maeve Kennedy McKean Fellow Seeks to Improve Maternal Health Care in Karachi

Each morning in Karachi began early for Saleem. She rose before 7:00 a.m. and drank a cup of chai before making the long commute through traffic to a nonprofit hospital. By 8:00.…

October 27, 2025

Maeve Kennedy McKean Global Health Award

Q&A with Inaugural Maeve Kennedy McKean Fellow Sydney Blackston

As the inaugural recipient of the Maeve Kennedy McKean Global Health Award, your research project this summer focused on the impact of the Canadian wildfires on Indigenous. …

October 25, 2024

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Inaugural Maeve Kennedy McKean Fellow Presents at Global Social Justice Research Symposium

Sydney Blackston (N’25), the inaugural recipient of the Maeve McKean Global Health Award, presented her summer research at the Global Social Justice Summer Research Symposium…

October 9, 2024

Maeve Kennedy McKean Global Health Award

Amara Saleem Named as the 2024-2025 Maeve Kennedy McKean Global Health Fellow

As the recipient of the Maeve McKean Global Health Award, Amara Saleem (SFS’26), an undergraduate student at the School of Foreign Service, hopes to research how differentiated…

October 2, 2024

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Two Fellowship Programs Honor the Legacy and Impact of Maeve Kennedy McKean

On December 8, 2023, members of the global health community at Georgetown University gathered for a luncheon with the family members of Maeve Kennedy McKean (G/L’09), the…

January 18, 2024

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Inaugural Maeve Kennedy McKean Fellow Proposes Researching Indigenous Health Care in Canada

Jointly administered by the Global Health Institute and the Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching and Service, the McKean fellowship honors the legacy of Maeve Kennedy…

August 23, 2023