Sara Fischer is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Government. She was a 2019 Fulbright-Hays grantee and has spent 14 months in Malawi conducting fieldwork for her dissertation. Sara’s research is an ethnographic study of the politics of Malawi’s community health system. Her dissertation describes how development rhetoric is interpreted differently by various stakeholders across the aid chain–from donors to communities–and ultimately impacts program effectiveness. Prior to attending Georgetown, Sara received a Master’s of Public Health degree from the Universities of Sheffield (UK) and Copenhagen (Denmark), and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Penn State University.
