The U.S. Peace Corps this week marked 50 years of work in Malawi with the launch of its Global Health Service Partnership program, “a three-year effort to increase human resource capacity for the country’s health sector,” VOA News reports. The program — a public-private collaboration of the Peace Corps, PEPFAR, and Seed Global Health — is “the first of its kind by U.S. Peace Corps in Malawi” and “will provide health experts to teach in public colleges and universities,” the news service writes (Masina, 8/27). “Eleven of the 30 volunteers sworn in at the White House in July as the first class of Peace Corps’ Global Health Service Partnership program will serve their one-year assignments at local health care institutions in Malawi, including the University of Malawi’s College of Medicine, Kamuzu College of Nursing, and Mzuzu University,” a Peace Corps press release notes, adding, “The new volunteers will serve as medical and nursing educators, working alongside local faculty to train the next generation of health care professionals” (8/23). In related news, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting examines the challenges of practicing medicine in rural Malawi (Messac, 8/27).