Day 1: Delhi
Arrive at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, where you’ll meet your guide and transfer to your hotel.

The group’s orientation will prepare students to engage with the community, encouraging them to approach unfamiliar experiences with curiosity, respect, and an awareness of their own assumptions. It also offers an opportunity to reflect on the factors students believe shape access to prevention and care, and how those assumptions may change through encounters with local people and places.

Enjoy a welcome dinner and an introduction to Indian food, culture, and the traditions that shape daily life across the country.

Day 2: Delhi & Agra
Begin exploring Delhi through its civic and cultural landscape. Pass India Gate, Parliament House, and the President’s Palace, and visit Raj Ghat, the memorial to Mahatma Gandhi, as well as Birla Temple and Gurudwara Shri Bangla Sahib.

These sites offer an introduction to the institutions, faith traditions, public spaces, and social networks that shape everyday life in India. As students encounter a city of extraordinary scale and diversity, they may consider the many places people turn for support, information, community, and care.

Continue to Agra. Along the way, observe the roads, markets, vehicles, and communities that connect India’s cities, towns, and rural areas.

Day 3: Agra & Jaipur
Begin the day at the Taj Mahal, the celebrated white-marble mausoleum built by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Its scale, artistry, and enduring symbolism offer a window into traditions surrounding family, care, memory, and loss.

Continue to Agra Fort, a vast red-sandstone complex of palaces, courtyards, mosques, and audience halls that served as a center of Mughal authority. Together, these sites provide historical context for understanding the diverse cultural and social traditions that continue to shape life in northern India.

Continue to Jaipur, Rajasthan’s Pink City. During an evening orientation, prepare for the healthcare and community experiences ahead by discussing expectations for respectful observation, privacy, communication, and engagement across cultural difference.

Day 4: Jaipur
Explore Jaipur’s historic landscape, including Amber Fort, City Palace, Hawa Mahal, Jal Mahal, Birla Mandir, and the city’s vibrant bazaars. Enjoy a cycle-rickshaw ride through the streets and markets, where artisans, vendors, families, commuters, and visitors share the city’s public spaces.

Before entering healthcare and community settings, students will gain a fuller sense of Jaipur’s cultural and social environment. Consider how faith, mobility, food, work, family enterprise, public space, and community belonging can influence everyday wellbeing.

Day 5: Jaipur
Begin the day with a yoga session, introducing one of the many ways health and wellbeing may be understood through routine, physical practice, and balance.

Later, visit a local hospital for an introduction to India’s healthcare system. Through a guided visit and conversation with healthcare professionals, students may gain insight into the roles of public and private services, prevention, vaccination, common health concerns, and public-health initiatives.

This experience offers a foundation for considering how healthcare systems respond to the needs of diverse populations and how factors such as geography, cost, information, and infrastructure may influence a person’s ability to seek care.

Day 6: Jaipur
Return to a local hospital for clinical observation experiences, subject to local protocols and availability. Observe aspects of healthcare delivery, patient-care practices, and the daily operations of a healthcare facility.

Later, participate in a discussion with local healthcare professionals, medical students, or faculty, subject to availability. Conversation may explore the experiences of healthcare providers, professional education, and the ways healthcare is delivered across different communities.

As students listen and compare perspectives, they will be encouraged to avoid simple assumptions about how care “should” be organized and instead consider how healthcare systems reflect particular histories, resources, needs, and priorities.

Day 7: Jaipur
Visit a local organization serving women and adolescent girls for a discussion of health, nutrition, and wellbeing. Conversation may include maternal and reproductive health, anemia, malnutrition, and the cultural or social circumstances that can affect when women seek healthcare services.

This experience offers an opportunity to consider how health is shaped by far more than the availability of a hospital or clinic. Education, income, nutrition, household responsibilities, transportation, stigma, and access to reliable information can all influence a person’s health choices and outcomes.

Later, enjoy a traditional Indian cooking workshop exploring the connections among ingredients, agriculture, family knowledge, food traditions, nutrition, and affordability.

Day 8: Jaipur
Visit a traditional hand block-printing workshop to observe artisans using carved wooden blocks and dyes to create Jaipur’s renowned textiles. Continue to a Blue Pottery studio to learn about one of the city’s distinctive craft traditions.

These encounters provide a window into the relationship between work, skill, income, identity, and community life. As students meet artisans and explore local markets, they may consider how livelihoods, working conditions, environmental surroundings, and economic opportunity contribute to individual and family wellbeing.

Later, gather for faculty-led reflection or independent exploration in Jaipur’s markets and public spaces.

Day 9: Jaipur
Visit an Ayurvedic hospital, wellness center, or educational setting to learn about Ayurveda, one of India’s longstanding systems of traditional medicine. Explore its approaches to health, wellness, diet, prevention, herbal preparations, and balance. Observe selected therapies or wellness practices, subject to local protocols.

Later, travel to a nearby rural village to visit a family home and farm. Through conversation and a home-cooked meal, gain insight into traditional livelihoods, nutrition, and everyday life in rural Rajasthan.

Together, these experiences invite students to consider the many ways people understand health and make decisions about care. They also offer perspective on how distance, transportation, household resources, food systems, and local infrastructure may shape prevention and care outside urban centers.

Day 10: Jaipur
Join health-awareness activities at a local government or community school alongside teachers and staff. Activities may include age-appropriate conversations and demonstrations related to oral hygiene, handwashing, nutrition, basic first aid, safe water, and disease prevention.

The day highlights the role of schools, families, educators, and communities in supporting health beyond formal healthcare settings. Students will see how prevention can be rooted in daily routines, practical knowledge, and locally relevant communication.

Day 11: Jaipur
Use the final full day in Jaipur to bring together the perspectives encountered throughout the journey. A faculty-led discussion, academic exchange, additional community or healthcare visit, or student reflection activity may be arranged to align with the group’s goals and local availability.

Reflect on the experiences of the program: healthcare systems and community care; women’s health and nutrition; urban and rural realities; traditional and contemporary approaches to wellbeing; and the importance of approaching global health learning with humility and respect.

Enjoy a farewell dinner featuring traditional Rajasthani cuisine.

Day 12: Jaipur & Delhi
After breakfast, return to Delhi for your departure flight home.

As the group travels, consider how the program’s experiences may inform students’ future studies, professional goals, and engagement with people and communities whose experiences of health and care may differ from their own.