Jack Fukushima serves as the Curriculum Coordinator for the HEAL Initiative. He received his BA in Public Health from UC Berkeley where he worked on and critiqued a number of global health projects in India, Uganda, and Nepal. At HEAL, Jack works on various projects including managing the creation of a textbook on social theory and medicine, helping to create an online platform for alumni, and maintaining the website. Having studied the many different effects NGOs can have on resource-denied communities, Jack is interested in the concept of community in global health and how it is variously defined around the world.