With a heavy heart, I’m said to say this our last stop on this Global Health journey. But I’m happy to announce our final stop is certainly a show-stopper full of food, flamenco, and architecture. Welcome to Barcelona! Barcelona is the second biggest city in Spain, but we did our best trying to explore the…
Author: Ali Kirby
Welcome, reader! My name is Ali, and I am a rising junior at Pitt studying Biology with a minor in Chemistry and certificates in the Conceptual Foundations of Medicine and Global Health. Although I go to school in Pennsylvania, I actually call the Southern Oregon Coast home. After graduating in Fall 2026, I plan to attend medical school and become a physician.
Ali’s Global Health Journey: A New Country and a New Continent
Before my travels to Spain, I had never left the North America continent. Yet on this study abroad trip, I went to not one but two new continents! After a couple of weeks studying global health in Málaga, we traveled across the Gibraltar Strait to Morocco. Immediately after coming to port in Morocco, I felt…
Ali’s Journey Through Spain: Málaga Edition
After a month of waiting at home, excitedly preparing for my 3 week trip to Spain and Morocco, the time had finally come! It was time to travel thousands of miles and leave the North American continent for this first time. Immediately after landing in Málaga, the host city for the my program called Global…