Would you like to pursue a career in public and global health but are uncertain where to begin to gain experience? In this conversation, Oliver Johnson, managing director of the Global Health Institute, and Cowan Angell, coordinator of business operations at the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact, provided an overview of the public global health landscape. Johnson and Angell shared valuable insights from their careers and discussed various opportunities students could consider when entering this dynamic field.
This event was open to all current Georgetown University students.
This event was co-sponsored by the Cawley Career Education Center and the Global Health Institute at Georgetown University.
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Oliver Johnson is managing director for the Global Health Institute at Georgetown University. In 2023, he completed his Ph.D. at King’s College London in the United Kingdom, with a focus on strengthening leadership by health professionals in sub-Saharan Africa. He is also a visiting lecturer in global health at King’s College London and an honorary researcher at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. From 2013 to 2015, he was based in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, as the founding director of the King’s College London Sierra Leone partnership, a health systems strengthening program embedded in the country’s main teaching hospital and medical school. From 2015 to 2022, he was based in Johannesburg, South Africa, where he worked with Africa Health Placements, a South African non-profit that focused on the recruitment and retention of health workers in rural government hospitals.
Cowan Angell is the coordinator of business operations at the Center for Global Health Practice and Impact at Georgetown University and a recent 2023 graduate of Georgetown’s Master of Science in Global Health program. She also holds a master’s degree in exercise physiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She first developed an interest in global and public health while working as a Peace Corps volunteer in Uganda, East Africa, where she served as a community health specialist.