Gender

We made a special effort to recruit more female Mentors this year, and we succeeded. Now, among the 45 Mentors there are 20 women (44%) and 25 men (56%) In contrast, in 2017, only 4 (17%) of our 24 Mentors were women. Among the Mentees, the percentage of men (23%) was similar to that in 2017 (28%). The persistence of this gender disparity among students and young professionals is due to the decreasing number of men and increasing number of women entering the fields of public health and global health across the world.

Geographic distribution

In 2018, our 96 Mentors and Mentees were born in or are currently working or studying in 59 different countries and our reach encompasses 17 time zones, from Vancouver, Canada to Melbourne, Australia:

• Central and West Africa: Cameroon, DR Congo, Ghana, Nigeria

• East and South Africa: Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi

• Middle East and North Africa: Algiers, Egypt, Lebanon, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates

• North America: Canada, Mexico, United States 

• ​Central America: Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama

• ​South America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru 

• ​English and Dutch Caribbean: Bahamas, Jamaica, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago

• ​Western Europe: Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland

• ​Northern Europe: Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom

• ​Southern Europe: Croatia, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain

• ​Eastern Europe and Caucasus: Bulgaria, Georgia, Poland, Romania, Ukraine

• ​Central Asia: Uzbekistan

• ​South Asia: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal

• ​South East Asia: Myanmar, Thailand 

• ​East Asia: China, Hong Kong (CN)

• Oceania: Australia

Academic and Professional Background

As in 2017, more than 70% of the Mentors are physicians. Among the 50 Mentees, the situation is reversed. There are only nine medical doctors (18%) and the remaining 41 young women and men have been trained in the following disciplines:

Economics, Political Science, Informatics, Multilingual Communications, Neuroscience, Dentistry, Nursing, Microbiology, Music, History, Geography, Physical Therapy, Systems Research, Business Administration, Genomics, Innovation and Management, Food and Nutrition, Psychology, Medical Anthropology, Biomedical Sciences, Epidemiology,  Pharmacy, Sociology, Life Sciences, Health Economics, International Development, Management, Policy Analysis, Finance, Health Systems, and Environmental Studies, among others.

Languages

Although English is our working language, MultiPOD Mentoring's Mentees and Mentors are native speakers of or fluent in forty-five languages.
These include the six official languages of the United Nations (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish), three of the newly proposed UN official languages (Bengali, Hindi, and Portuguese), and other Asian, European, and African languages (Amharic, Asante, Bulgarian, Burmese, Cantonese, Catalan, Chichewa, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Fante, Finnish, Ga, Georgian, German, Gujarati, Italian, Krobo, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya, Turkish, Twi, Uzbek, and Yoruba)

We expect to continue to grow, develop and expand MultiPOD Mentoring in 2019 and beyond. Please join us and become part of this global inter-generational effort to make our Earth a healthier and better world.

List of Mentors and Mentees

List of all the Mentees and all the Mentors that participated in the Class of 2018.