Stories of IREX

In 2008, Dr. Kemal Goshliyev returned to the Central Skin and Venereal Disease Hospital in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan with a master’s degree in public health and a commitment to improve the institution he’d worked at for over 10 years. The hospital is the leading institution of its kind in Turkmenistan, with the goal of restoring, maintaining, and enhancing health through superior care, and provides assistance to similar hospitals across the country. Dr.

Over the past century, residents of Fargo, North Dakota, have seen the Red River, which flows along the city's eastern border, rise as high as 41 feet during the rainy season. When flooding threatens, the people of Fargo pull together to minimize the damage to their community. This spring, Sirjoddin Eshmatov, a Muskie fellow from Uzbekistan studying agricultural economics at North Dakota State University, was proud to join the community action and contribute to help prevent flooding in the city that has become his new home.