Global Healthcare Education Scholars

Olanya Denish

Olanya Denish is a licensed clinical officer from the village of Kalongo in the Agago District of northern Uganda. Denish helped co-found and run the Northern Uganda Medical Mission Clinic (NUMEM), and currently serves on the board.

Oyoo benson

Oyoo Benson was born in the Northern Ugandan village of Lunyiri in 1986. After becoming a licensed clinical officer in Uganda (roughly, what is called a "physicians assistant" in the U.S.), Benson co-founded the Northern Uganda Medical Mission (NUMEM), which opened the NUMEM Health Center in Pader, Northern Uganda, in May of 2013. Benson currently serves as the executive director for NUMEM while studying to become a physician at St. Augustine’s University in Kampala, Uganda.

Atiya Patrick Kasagara

Patrick was born in the Akonyibedo village in county of Aswa in Gulu. Patrick helped to co-found the Northern Uganda Medical Mission (NUMEM), where he served as the Chief Clinician for the first three years of its existence, and currently serves on the board.

Ajok Monica

Prior to returning to school this past year Monica worked as a Comprehensive Nurse in Northern Uganda from 2013 – 2018. During that time she was the only Comprehensive Nurse working at the Kilak Health Centre in Pader District, Northern Uganda. Monica is now attending Lira University in Northern Uganda where she is enrolled in the university’s midwifery program. Upon completion of her degree, Monica will be a certified midwife and will continue her efforts to improve the health of women and children in Northern Uganda.

oryem bosco

Bosco has been working to promote the health of the communities of Northern Uganda as an Enrolled Nurse for the past five years, four of which were at the NUMEM Health Centre in Pader, Northern Uganda. Bosco is now returning to school so as to receive certification as a Comprehensive Nurse (which would carry significant more responsibilities, duties, and capabilities than those of an Enrolled Nurse in Uganda – such as the capacity to be the lead clinician with authority to diagnose and treat patients at a Level 2 Health Center). 

Oyet Patrick

Patrick has been working at improving the health of his local community since graduating from Gulu School of Clinical Officers in 2013 as a licensed Clinical Officer (roughly the equivalent of a Physician's Assistant in the U.S.). Among other activities, he co-founded and continues on the board of directors of the Northern Uganda Medical Mission, which runs the NUMEM Health Centre in Pader, Northern Uganda. Patrick has also undertaken other endeavors to provide for the health of individuals living in even more remote regions of Northern Uganda. For instance, on occasion, Patrick collects what he can to purchase medications and supplies and will rent a room in remote communities and, as a licensed Clinical Officer, administer health care to any local residents that require it. 

Help support the education of Northern Uganda's medical workforce. These scholars were awarded partial tuition scholarships by the Ugandan Government. The remaining costs of tuition, roughly $2,000 per year, and living expenses approximately an additional $2,000 per year, are covered by Asteroidea. 

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