1982: Connie Currier served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana in Mim (Atebubu)/Brong Ahafo; Okoyo/Eastern Region beginning in 1982



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Connie Currier can be contacted at currier3amsudedu

Country of Service: Ghana

Training Group: Akwadum

Cities you served in: Mim (Atebubu)/Brong Ahafo; Okoyo/Eastern Region

Arrival Year: 1982

Departure Year: 1984

Work Description:

Community health - worked to get USAID health clinic staffed, equipped, opened in Mim; worked to get health clinic established in Oyoko

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

After Peace Corps, got MPH at University of Michigan - served as a Population Fellow in Harare, Zimbabwe at the Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council; since 1993 at Michigan State University. Got DrPH from U of M in 2002 - now faculty in Program in Public Health at MSU - have taken students on study abroad to Ghana every summer for the last 8 years!

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

Shaped who I am today in more way that I can say. I encourage all of my students to do Peace Corps, and many of my study abroad students have become PCVs.



Originally posted: 5/19/2011

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