Maternal and Child Health Care

Intern with a non-profit foundation located in the Republic of Kosovo with the foremost goal to save the lives of children and improve the overall sexual and reproductive health of women throughout their lives. This organization strives to develop better policies and systems for the care of women through pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, and care of the newborn.

The organization was established in 2009, with the impetus for creating this new, non-profit foundation emanates from a US-AID funded primary and reproductive health program that was implemented by Doctors of the World, American International Health Alliance (AIHA), AmeriCares, the Dartmouth Medical School, and many other colleagues in Kosovo. They develop health programs and provide resources for gynecology and obstetrics clinics and their care for mothers; neonatology intensive care units and their care for critical pre-mature babies; and pediatric clinics and their care for children suffering from leukemia, heart diseases, asthma, and other illnesses.

Internship Opportunity:

Currently, Isla is seeking an intern studying public health at the undergraduate or graduate school level to do research in collaboration with the host organization's team on safe abortions and the cultural challenges in Kosovo. The Isla Intern will work in cooperation with the organization’s project team responsible for maternal and child health care. In general, this position is structured so that the intern provides research and programmatic support to the organization and their work on issues affecting quality maternal and child health care in Kosovo.

The Isla Intern may also choose to assist and do research on one of the the following focus areas as well:

• The effects of air pollution on health in Kosovo

• The challenge of vaccinating excluded and marginalized groups of people in Kosovo

• Solving the problem of the predominance of and preference for C-section births in Kosovo.