ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT IPEK BERBEROGLU, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Koç University | İstanbul, Türkiye | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 3
" Travelling is one of my biggest hobbies. However, I didn’t expect this hobby to help me to find my passion in life. I had a chance to witness healthcare access problems across the world. And that led me to start dreaming about and working for a world in which everyone has access to affordable and quality resources that they need to stay healthy. I am thrilled to be part of Millennium Fellowship, and I truly believe that it will help me to not only improve my knowledge and skills but also spread this awareness and address the various SDGs. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Healthcare Without Borders
My project is under SDG 3 and aims to work with local communities in Africa who have no easy access to health care. That community consists of teenage girls aged 12 to 15 who have traumatic backgrounds as early marriage victims and have children. I would like to run a project where we will meet remotely with this community and organize monthly webinars to address common health problems in Africa and their questions from baby care to mother health, HIV to hand hygiene, menstruation to household safety. At the end of each session, I will get a feedback from community members and we will improve our project day by day. These monthly webinars will be a part of our intern doctor’s education curriculum, so the project will be sustainable and structured.
About the Millennium Fellow
Ipek Berberoglu is a medical student at Koc University School of Medicine and currently doing a research year at University of Michigan. She was born and raised in Antalya, Turkey. Ipek has always been passionate about health equity and took part in various volunteer projects to understand and address health disparities in her local community. In addition to her profound interest in surgical fields and research, she would like to pursue a career in global surgery that she can cultivate these advocacies further, and provide improved and equiatable surgical care across the world. She believes that Millennium Fellowship will help to accelerate her progress towards her goals.
