Global Experience: Global Healthcare Explorations
Kenya, Africa
Learning Beyond the Classroom
In GLB355: Global Healthcare Explorations, you'll experience a unique opportunity to explore global healthcare to increase knowledge of cultural concepts as they relate to nursing care and create an increased awareness of culturally competent nursing behaviors through hands-on learning in Kenya, East Africa. Students will engage with foundational Kikuyu language skills as part of their studies.
Students will travel to Kenya, East Africa, and stay at the Brackenhurst Conference Center in Limuru. The conference center includes breakfast and dinner with Western and East African dishes. This course emphasizes interprofessional collaboration between national healthcare workers, mission team members, and students from various colleges and universities. Students will engage in collaborative healthcare delivery and community engagement activities in a cross-cultural setting. A foundational component includes acquiring basic communication skills in the local vernacular, Kikuyu, to enhance cultural competence and effective interaction with the local population. Students will embark on a safari at the Maasai Mara game reserve.
Costs include tuition, flight, and accommodations at Brackenhurst.
May 21, 2026 - June 4, 2026
Travel Highlights
Students will travel to Kenya, where they will volunteer at a rural clinic, offering support and assistance to local healthcare providers.
Experienced Faculty
Meet Your Faculty Guide
In 1993, Donna earned a Certificate in Tropical Medicine and Community Health from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine in Liverpool, England. This training laid the foundation for a decade of service as a medical missionary in Kenya under the auspices of Africa Inland Mission. During this period, Donna worked in two rural mission hospitals, taking on a wide range of clinical and leadership responsibilities, including functioning in a nurse practitioner capacity, serving as a charge nurse, and administering both spinal and inhalational general anesthesia. Donna played a central role in capacity-building efforts through developing and teaching a critical care training course for staff in a newly established intensive care unit and implementing a comprehensive hospital-wide continuing education program at one of the facilities.
Donna Lovestrand
Associate Professor, Nursing Programs
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