Alanna Shaikh
| Alanna Shaikh | |
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.jpg) Alanna Shaikh (15439816436).jpg Alanna Shaikh at TED Global 2014 in Rio | |
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Boston University |
| 💼 Occupation | Development specialist |
| 🏅 Awards | TED Fellow |
| 🌐 Website | www |
Alanna Shaikh, MPH is a global health and development specialist. She has worked for NGOs, contractors, the US government and a UN agency in charge of global health programs in East Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East. She is a Senior TED Fellow and has spoken in many TED conferences.[1]
Career[edit]
Raised in Syracuse, New York, Alanna was interested in international development from an early age, and was insprired in part by her involvement as a child with a local chapter of the Model United Nations. She describes aid work as in the broadest sense being about "trying to help everybody in the world reach a healthy and happy standard of living - about giving people the opportunity and potenial to live fulfilling lives".[2]
Alana received her Bachelor of Science in 1996 from Georgetown University's school of Foreign Service. Between degrees she travelled overseas engaging in volunteer work, including an intership at Cairo. She returned to the U.S. to pursue a MPH which she received in 2001 from Boston university. Shaikh then moved to Uzbekistan for another internship, and shortly after received her first offer for a paid job. Since then Alanna has worked for various UN affiliated aid agencies in Uzbekistan and neighboring Turkmenistan. Between 2006 and 2008 she returned to the United States to work for International Medical Corps and Macfadden in Washington DC, before going back to central Asia to work in Tajikistan, including a stretch at its capital Dushanbe. In 2015, she moved back to Cairo, where she's now based. [3][2]
Alanna met her husband while studying in the US. He is also an aid worker - several times he has given up posts when Alanna has needed to move to another country due to her work, and on another occasion Alanna has been the one to follow husband when his job required a change of location. Alanna is the mother of two boys. In addition to her work in international development, she has given health related advice on topics of interest to audiences in the advanced economies. These inlcude the declining effectiveness of antibiotics and on preparing for Alzheimer's disease . [4][5][6][7]
Advice for aid workers[edit]
In addition to working directly on achieving good outcomes in the fields of health and development, Alanna provides gudiance for those wishing to make a contribution to Humanitarian aid. She co-founded both AidSource (a social network for aid workers) and SMART Aid (which helped educate donours and start up projects working in development.)[8]
The New York Times has noted Shaikh's widely distributed advice that those wanting to help out after the 2010 Haiti earthquake would be do better to send money rather than goods, and only to volunteer in person if they have relevant medical expertise.[9][10] Alanna has written more generally about the challenges in the field of international aid, and on how such difficulties can be overcome by the courageous. [11] [12][13] Shaikh has noted for example that the field of international development can be very competitive for new entrants; with sometimes a thousand applicants even for unpaid internships, when only ten vacancies exist.[2]
Publications[edit]
- Shaikh, Alanna. What's Killing Us: A Practical Guide to Understanding Our Biggest Global Health Problems, Amazon Digital Services LLC, 2012
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Senior TED Fellow Alanna Shaikh Discusses Our Global Health in Her New TED Book". TEDFellows. March 29, 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2
Mueller,S.; Overmann, M. (2014). "Introduction : Profiles". Working World, Second Edition: Careers in International Education, Exchange, and Development. Georgetown University Press. ISBN 1626160546. Search this book on
- ↑
Kyle James (November 2009). "Can Tajikistan and 'aiming low' be a model for Afghanistan?". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 08 July 2016. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ Shaikh, Alanna (March 3, 2013). "If Alzheimer's comes for me, I'll be ready". The Telegraph. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ "How to prepare for Alzheimer's". Minnesota Public Radio News. February 27, 2013. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑
Mark Leon Goldberg (March 2012). "So, You Want to Learn About Global Health? Here is Where to Start". United Nations. Retrieved 09 July 2016. Check date values in:
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Nick Macdonald (2011). "'Interview – Alanna Shaikh, International Public Health practitioner'". Getting your first job in relief and development. [Amazon]. Search this book on
- ↑ "Alanna Shaikh". TED.
- ↑ Butler, Kiera (May 14, 2012). "Do Toms Shoes Really Help People?". Mother Jones. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ Strom, Stephanie (20 January 2010). "Teaching Americans What Haiti Needs: Money". The New York Times. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ This world needs brave
- ↑ Scott, Anna (2 May 2013). "Impact evaluation: how to measure what matters". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ McEachran, Rich (24 July 2013). "Fight against malnutrition: businesses can help but only if they do it right". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
Further reading[edit]
- Levenson Keohane, Georgia, Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private, and Public Sectors, McGraw Hill Professional, 2013 ISBN 0071801677
- Lewis, D.; Rodgers, D., Woolcock, M., Popular Representations of Development: Insights from Novels, Films, Television and Social Media, Routledge, 2014 ISBN 1135902631
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Alanna Shaikh on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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