Senior Global Public Health Fellow (SGPHF)

The Senior Global Public Health Fellow will serve to support and encourage new students to adjust to the New York University School of Global Public Health and the ISEE Lab culture, and share valuable experiences with students. Through one-on-one mentoring, interactions and group meetings, fellows will serve as peer mentors, role models, and successfully advocate for the new ISEE lab students. If you are a previous ISEE lab alumni, this role may be of interest to you. Please reach out to gph.isee@nyu.edu for additional information.

Director’s message:

Sustainable mentorship is patient, kind, and transformative. Enduring mentor-mentee relationships are those that are based on a mutual understanding, and celebrate failures and successes alike. Each party has to be intentional and clear about their expectations. Communication should be bi-directional and mentees should feel comfortable and be encouraged to challenge ideas of mentors to bring new perspective, complexity and multiplicity to solutions. A shared lived experience also strengthens the intergenerational bond, which may lead to stronger social support, and is important for promoting physical and mental health.

As I ponder on these two African proverbs, I am reminded of my ‘WHY” I have decided to mentor others. I am a product of a sustainable 20+ years of mentorship from expert public health professionals and I find joy in being able to pass on the gift of mentorship.

“If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together”

And

“It takes a village to raise a child”

We (the public health community) have a responsibility to ensure that the younger generation are nurtured and are challenged to reach new heights and allowed to flourish showcasing their optimal potential.

I challenge everyone who has managed to climb the professional ladder to also pull along others through coaching and ongoing mentorship; this is a key ingredient for community upliftment. I am very proud of our ISEE lab senior fellows for sharing the gift of mentorship.

-Dr. Joyce Gyamfi

Benefits: -Receive certificate acknowledging your participation as a SGPHF at NYU GPH
-Spotlight your achievement in NYU GPH communication newsletters
-Highlight leadership, mentoring, and team work experience on resume
Responsibilities: -Develop and maintain a peer relationship focused on helping at least 1 new ISEE lab student to make a smooth transition, through knowledge transfer and coaching
-Serve as a resource for new students by helping them to identify and address challenges with lab projects or general graduate school questions
-Transfer knowledge and specific skills from mentor to mentee (e.g., statistical analysis via a specific package [R, SAS, STATA], manuscript development, systematic reviews, etc.)
-Attend at least 3 ISEE Lab group meetings per semester (for one year, both Fall and Spring semesters)
-Engage in a project with ISEE mentee, and guide mentee to complete the project within agreed upon timeline (ideally before end of the one-year engagement)
-Meet with mentee at least once per month; 9 times per year (at a minimum)
-Continually engage assigned ISEE lab student based on your availability
Core Qualifications: -Be an ISEE Lab alumni
-Be willing to learn and share information about the ISEE lab
-Demonstrate good interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills
-Have a genuine desire to help new students succeed
-Demonstrate leadership potential
-Be self-motivated with a positive attitude
-Display a willingness to challenge and support new students
-Fellows must make a 9-month commitment to the program
-Fellow and mentee must give a 10-15min PowerPoint presentation at an ISEE Lab group meeting, on a joint project completed at the end of the 9-month program