The fourth-year University of Minnesota Medical School student split her time between Ecuador and South Florida before making her home in the Twin Cities. That connection made her recent research as part of the Fogarty Global Health Fellowship even more meaningful.
Harris Martinez spent her fellowship in rural Peru studying the perceptions and expressions of mental health among Indigenous women of the Kukama tribe, who live in townships along the Marañón River, a tributary of the Amazon.
“As an Ecuadorian-American, something that’s been so important to me since I arrived at medical school is making sure I build a career in global health in Latin America,” said Harris Martinez. “The Fogarty Fellowship has allowed me to start that.”
The Fogarty Global Health Fellowship, known formally as the Fogarty LAUNCH Research Training Program, is a prestigious training program funded by the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Fogarty International Center that offers a year of mentored research training to postdoctoral trainees and doctoral students.
The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility is part of the Northern/Pacific Global Health Research Fellows Training Consortium, which operationalizes the fellowship program.
