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 MARYAM YOUSSEF ALHOUSSEINI, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW AND CAMPUS DIRECTOR FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Lebanese American University | Byblos, Lebanon | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 2
" Being part of Millennium followship will improve my leadership and help me gain the required skills to be able to execute my project that will be of positive impact to my society as well as have a social impact that will help me reach more young people at schools and universities so that I can motivate them to follow the UNAI principles and SDGs and trigger their interest in working towards a better and more equal world. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Healthcare for All
My project healthcare for all is a project that targets society as a whole, since it aims to reduce health disparities and create health equity. The idea of this project came out when I was doing my community pharmacy internship at one of the poor neighborhoods in Lebanon. At that time, it was devastating to daily see the disappointment of people leaving the pharmacy unable to get their medication due to drug shortages or even the economic crisis Lebanon was and still is going through. What was even harder to witness was that people who required diagnosis for some serious conditions couldn’t afford it and so were dependent on the pharmacist to treat their condition. Moreover, I noticed a lot of people were afraid to get the generics even if they couldn’t afford or find the brand medications just because they didn’t have enough health knowledge or even had some misconceptions about generics. From here was born the idea behind my Millennium Fellowship project which works towards advancing SDG3: good health and well-being in addition to SDG 10: Reduced inequalities
About the Millennium Fellow
Maryam Alhousseini is a enthusiastic, dedicated and perseverant pharmacy student at the Lebanese American University. She aspires young people at her age to work towards reducing health disparities and motivates future healthcare provides to work towards better and more equal healthcare.
