It was the Monday before Fall Quarter finals when 12 Harris School students boarded a plane for Cambodia and, though most had just finished taking their exams a week early, some were still writing research papers on the seemingly endless flights to Phnom Penh. The added pressure was a small price to pay after devoting the last seven months to studying Cambodia’s health care sector as a part of Harris School’s annual International Policy Practicum (IPP) course, which travels to a different country each year.
The group spent hours talking with representatives from The World Bank, Asian Development Bank, USAID, and the editor of The Cambodia Daily newspaper about, among other things, the challenges of rebuilding the country’s health care sector.
“It’s just a mess,” remembers Elizabeth Vivirito, a student in the class. “We saw that all the time between organizations, and even within an organization, the two hands weren’t talking to each other.”
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