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emoryGHI  > Global Health Student Photography Contest > 2011 GHI Photography Contest
The purpose of the Emory Global Health Institute’s Global Health Student Photography Contest is to encourage students conducting global health projects in low- and middle-income countries to examine the culture and people with whom they are working in order to foster cultural sensitivity. The contest also promotes awareness of global health issues on the Emory campus through the power of photography, and it celebrates Emory students’ success in connecting their interest in global health with the visual arts.

Mr. Robert Yellowlees, a successful Atlanta businessman who has had a lifelong interest in photography, gave a generous gift to the Institute to establish and coordinate this contest. The Institute encourages both undergraduate and graduate students from across the University to submit photographs they take while participating in global health field experiences in low- or middle-income countries.
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emoryGHI > Salim Allana Rollins School of Public Health Picture of a young girl using a community hand-pump to fetch water for her home in a semi-urban village Location: Karachi, Pakistan Every day female members of the communities residing in semi-urban / rural villages located on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan have to fetch water for daily use from the community hand-pump for which they travel on an average at least 2 to 3 miles (one-way). Households in these communities neither have any water supply connections nor other utility (electricity / gas) facilities. This community hand-pump shown in the picture was installed through the efforts of the village elders with funding from a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).
emoryGHI > Salim Allana Rollins School of Public Health Rusted water tank mounted on a donkey cart which is used to deliver water for daily consumption to community households Location: Semi-urban Village of Karachi, Pakistan Water for daily consumption is delivered to community households, in semi-urban villages of Karachi, Pakistan, using rusted water tanks (as shown in the picture) that too against a small fee for delivery. Despite the fact that water samples obtained from such tanks were tested and declared unsafe and unfit for human consumption, this practice of water supply delivery continues unchecked and unabated. As an important action strategy for providing access to ‘Safe Water’ globally, we need to ensure that people across the world, should at least have basic access to clean and safe water in order to reduce the burden of water borne diseases.
emoryGHI > Maggie Bale Rollins School of Public Health Photo 1: Watching over the tobacco harvest Location: Sichuan Province, China This little boy stood near the rickshaw carrying huge baskets of recently picked tobacco to the village center. Tobacco is allowed to be grown in this part of China because the Yi people desperately need a source of income. However, the tobacco is creating a significant public health problem throughout China as the majority of the immense population smoke, leading to a huge burden of chronic disease such as lung cancer.
emoryGHI > Maggie Bale Rollins School of Public Health Photo 2: Lazy afternoon on Qionghai Lake Location: Xichang, Sichuan Province, China These men make supplemental income by taking tourists out onto Qionghai Lake in their handmade boats. The lake is an integral source of food and income for the Yi People, one of the poorest Chinese minorities, living near Xichang, Sichuan Province, China
emoryGHI > Danika Barry Rollins School of Public Health Photo 1: Trinity Location: Oromiya Region, Ethiopia This photo embodies a well functioning “frontline health worker” team in Oromiya Region, Ethiopia. On the left is a newly delivered mother with her newborn baby, in the center is a traditional birth attendant (TBA), and to the right is a Health Extension Worker (HEW). The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health has scaled up over 30,000 HEWs since 2005, to ensure equitable access to primary health care, and a point of referral for secondary and tertiary care at the community level. However, while HEWs have formal skills and resources available to them, TBAs were more trusted by mothers for pregnancy and delivery care. Ethiopia has one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates, and thus coordinated, timely care is essential. Teamwork amongst these different cadres of frontline health workers, including mothers and primary caregivers, can ensure that proper care is given to “every mother, in time, every time.”
emoryGHI > Danika Barry Rollins School of Public Health Photo 2: Community Quality Improvement Location: Oromiya Region, Ethiopia This is a monthly meeting of the Ilam Eferso Quality Improvement Team. The team is composed of community government leaders, religious leaders, elders, volunteer community health workers, traditional birth attendants and Health Extension Workers. The team tracks data on service delivery and outcome indicators, implement change ideas, and monitor progress. Pregnancy identification is key initial step for ensuring early enrollment in antenatal care to plan for delivery, as well as potential pregnancy complications. On the chart here we can see that the team successfully identified a large number of pregnancies in early months, catching up on a backlog of unidentified pregnant women. The team can expect the indicator to have natural variance around a lower number of only the newly identified pregnant women per month. This quality improvement approach empowers stakeholders to implement evidence-based solutions while taking ownership over ensuring care provision.
emoryGHI > Danika Barry Rollins School of Public Health Photo 3: Birth Preparation Location: Oromiya Region, Ethiopia This expecting mother is demonstrating home-based life saving skills for warming and neonatal resuscitation via drying and rubbing the baby’s back. She is using a baby doll to teach these skills to other mothers in their homes. On the left is a booklet of pictorial “Take Action Cards” which aid in the recognition of pregnancy-related danger signs as well as appropriate actions. To the right is a box with a safe delivery kit the woman has prepared. Among other items, it includes clean cord ties, gloves and misoprostol tablets for post-partum hemorrhage; the leading cause of maternal mortality in Ethiopia.
emoryGHI > Nicole Bennett Rollins School of Public Health Photo 1: "We are gay, black, and greater than HIV" Location: San Francisco, USA This is a photo of the "greater than" campaign in the Castro, a district in San Francisco well known for its dense gay population. A black man waves to a white man, as they walk past campaign materials, surrounded by rainbow pride flags and a poster of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. The "great than" social marketing campaign uses an empowerment approach to prevent HIV among black people across the United States, reminding people that we can fight this global threat, together. Among African-Americans, men who have sex with men (MSM) are particularly at risk for HIV. The CDC estimates that although MSM only represent a small percent of the population, they account for more than half of all new HIV infections. Furthermore, the number of new HIV infections has increased 48% among young, black, MSM. There is an urgent need to prevent HIV among this at-risk community. This social marketing campaign, tailored to gay, black men, is an inspirational starting point.
emoryGHI > Niharika Bhattarai Rollins School of Public Health Photo 1: The Girl in the Red Location: Patna, Bihar, India She wears a red dress. Barefoot, she prances along the banks of the Ganga. Curious, she follows us down the street. She is a street child of Patna. Raised on the street, she comes out in the day to ask for food and money, and disappears at night to a place unknown. But before she does, we trade a handful of lychees for a photo. What is her name? How old is she? Does she have someone taking care of her? She smiles after popping in the first lychee; a smile that conveys a small glimpse of a childhood in a life of hardships and uncertainty. She laughs and runs off never to be seen again; carefree and too young to know the realities of life. Sadly, she isn’t alone but surrounded by other children, each like her.
emoryGHI > Niharika Bhattarai Rollins School of Public Health Photo 2: The Corner Pump Location: Varanasi, Uttar Pardesh, India Washing off the heat of an Indian summer, four young boys are already acquainted with the burden and joys of water. One enjoys the cool and refreshing splash, while the other uses every muscle possible to pump up water. It’s an exhaustive trade-off, but they each get a turn under the corner pump. This image depicts the relationships water creates within communities. More than often, water is exposed as the root of negative health outcomes, but this life force is also what ties people together. Whether it’s lending a hand to scrub a friend’s hair or using every inch of muscle to pump, these boys have a bond that now binds them together – and that’s the power of water.
emoryGHI > Niharika Bhattarai Rollins School of Public Health Photo 3: A Facility Delivery Location: Naubhatpur, Bihar, India 24 hours after birth a young mother, no older than 20, waits with her older daughter and newborn in the maternity ward of referral hospital in rural Naubhatpur, Bihar. Having delivered in a health facility, the mother has not only secured a government based financial incentive, but assurance of proper delivery care, breastfeeding the newborn within one hour of birth, and postnatal care. This mother will go home knowing that she provided the best care available to her newborn and herself, all while giving the older sister a new member of the family to play with.
emoryGHI > Catharine Boice School of Nursing Photo 1: Untitled Location: San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic A mother of premature, 9 week old triplets in rural Dominican Republic demonstrating "Kangaroo Care" on two of her babies while their aunt looks on. Kangaroo Care is a low cost method of care for premature and underweight infants that includes exclusive breastfeeding and 24 hour skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby. Emory University School of Nursing is involved in an ongoing Kangaroo Care research and education project in collaboration with the San Vicente de Paul hospital in San Francisco de Macoris, DR.
emoryGHI > Christine Bourey Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing & Rollins School of Public Health Photo 2: Adolescent Boys Location: Maharashtra, India Here, young boys from an adolescent boys program in Maharashtra, India sit in front of a chalkboard with village health statistics. Whereas many programs exist to empower young women in this region, this program was started in recognition of the vital role that men play in realizing gender equity. The group learns about the health of their community by helping frontline health care workers collect data. They also have a lending group; they use their favored position as males to borrow small amounts of money from their families, which they aggregate and donate to support girls’ education. Most importantly, they discuss gender issues, addressing the feelings that arise as they witness gender-based violence and learning how to advocate for gender equity in their communities.
emoryGHI > Christine Bourey Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing & Rollins School of Public Health Photo 2: Empowered Location: Maharashtra, India Priti is the daughter of a patient in a small hospital in Maharashtra, India. Nine months before this photograph was taken, her mother had arrived to the hospital with 70 percent of her body burned. Her in-laws had poured kerosene over her and lit a match – in front of more than 100 people from her village. Although violence against women is devastatingly common in Priti’s environment, her empowerment radiates through the photograph. This strength and self-confidence reflect not only her natural tenacity and exuberance, which she demonstrated as she danced and sang at her mother’s bedside, but also the self-esteem nurtured by the staff of the rural hospital. On the morning this photograph was taken, Priti had determined that her mother’s oral pain medication was not sufficient. She confidently advocated for her mother, announcing to the doctors: “My mother needs an IV.”
emoryGHI > Christine Bourey Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing & Rollins School of Public Health Photo 3: “I will be 18.” Location: Maharashtra, India Although laws officially prohibit women from marrying before 18 years of age in India, socioeconomic pressures often dictate other practices. Especially for women, economic systems, cultural norms, and underlying gender inequities exert pressures for early marriage. Given the complexity of the situation, inspiring change is often difficult. Although this young woman lives in a slum in rural India, proximity to an organization that has engaged in community-based primary health care for over 40 years provides her with unique opportunities. Over the past decade, the organization has partnered with families in her community, building support for girls’ education and for delaying marriage until physiological maturity. That her family has the foresight and leadership to permit her to continue her education and remain unwed is a source of pride. Following our introduction, she proudly announced, “I will be 18 when I marry.”
Salim Allana
Rollins School of Public Health

Picture of a young girl using a community hand-pump to fetch water for her home in a semi-urban village
Location: Karachi, Pakistan

Every day female members of the communities residing in semi-urban / rural villages located on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan have to fetch water for daily use from the community hand-pump for which they travel on an average at least 2 to 3 miles (one-way). Households in these communities neither have any water supply connections nor other utility (electricity / gas) facilities. This community hand-pump shown in the picture was installed through the efforts of the village elders with funding from a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).
emoryGHI > Salim Allana Rollins School of Public Health Picture of a young girl using a community hand-pump to fetch water for her home in a semi-urban village Location: Karachi, Pakistan Every day female members of the communities residing in semi-urban / rural villages located on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan have to fetch water for daily use from the community hand-pump for which they travel on an average at least 2 to 3 miles (one-way). Households in these communities neither have any water supply connections nor other utility (electricity / gas) facilities. This community hand-pump shown in the picture was installed through the efforts of the village elders with funding from a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).
Salim Allana
Rollins School of Public Health

Picture of a young girl using a community hand-pump to fetch water for her home in a semi-urban village
Location: Karachi, Pakistan

Every day female members of the communities residing in semi-urban / rural villages located on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan have to fetch water for daily use from the community hand-pump for which they travel on an average at least 2 to 3 miles (one-way). Households in these communities neither have any water supply connections nor other utility (electricity / gas) facilities. This community hand-pump shown in the picture was installed through the efforts of the village elders with funding from a local Non-Governmental Organization (NGO).
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