Carly Malcolm

Gaining a Global View

When Carly Malcolm was in high school, she received a month-long study abroad opportunity in Mexico, sparking a love of travel and other cultures. At Clemson University, she developed an interest in global health, and traveled to South Africa the summer after her freshman year to learn about the harms of HIV/AIDS and apartheid. 

An internship at the American Public Health Association helped Malcolm to build her public health knowledge and experience through government advocacy. The next year, another internship at a hospital in Argentina allowed her to shadow a variety of medical providers. 

“I am particularly committed to issues that disproportionately impact women and gender minorities and to addressing these issues through an intersectional and culturally appropriate lens.”

After college, she served as a fellow in Lead for North Carolina—an organization that pairs recent college graduates with local governments—where she continued to explore public health through a podcast she helped develop and co-host, aimed at increasing knowledge of end-of-life resources in her home county of Guilford. Serving in the Peace Corps in Peru, she was a community health promotion volunteer, focusing on interventions to reduce local rates of childhood anemia and adolescent pregnancy. 

Each of these experiences encouraged Malcolm to pursue an MPH at the Bloomberg School to learn more about implementation science and program evaluation. After graduation, she hopes to develop programs to improve sexual and reproductive health, adolescent health and community health, drawing on her public health skills to make sure these interventions are evidence-based and effective. 

“My dream would be that everyone, but specifically girls, women, and gender minorities, have the knowledge, resources, and access to care needed to achieve gender health equity,” she says.