About us
This September Rach and I are moving to Rwanda to work with HDI Rwanda for a year. We hope to help set up a model clinic in one of the poorest populations of the country and establish a continuing education program for the medical professionals of the country. Rach will also be working with an organisation called Orphans of Rwanda. See the home page for more information about what we’ll be doing.
RACH
Dr Rachel Hardy-Holbrook has been working at the University of Warwick, UK for the past three and a half years as the Graduate School Skills Manager (see: www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/). Rach established and managed the Graduate School Skills Programme for all PhD researchers at Warwick
Rach was awarded her PhD in electronic publishing business models from Loughborough University in 2005 and directly following that worked as a research associate on a number of research projects including: JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) funded project for the development of an Open Access citation system with Loughborough and Southampton Universities; JISC and CURL (Consortium of Research Libraries) commissioned project for the study of digital content and preservation in the library and archive sector; and the JISC funded PELICAN project (Pricing Experiment Library Information Cooperative Network) which involved the development of pricing models for the delivery of digitised texts to the higher education community.
Rachel has experience in teaching, presenting to both small and large groups at seminars, workshops and conferences, lecturing and teaching lab classes. Rachel was awarded a merit certificate for Young Science Writer of the Year 2001 and has published 15 journal papers over the last 5 years.
Rachel can be contacted on rach@rachandjohn.org
JOHN
John recently graduated from the University of Sydney with a Masters in Internatinal Public health (MIPH). Prior to studying at Sydney he worked in São Paulo, Brazil at a municipal HIV/STI clinic and in Maputo, Mozambique at a juvenile HIV clinic and taught HIV/AIDS awareness to kids in schools
John studied Portuguese at Brigham Young University, USA
He speaks Portuguese, Spanish and Cape Verdean Creole and can be contacted at jtholbrook@gmail.com