McGill is recognized as Canada's top medical-research university. The McGill School of Nursing has been building a partnership with Highlands Hope nurse-counselors since a visit by the Associate Director of the School, Professor Madeleine Buck, last January.

The first Highlands Hope Fellowship allowed Christina Clausen, a McGill-trained nursing specialist in maternal-child health, to visit and work with Betty Liduke and other Highlands Hope nurses in October and November.

McGill's monthly newspaper, The McGill Reporter has profiled Christina and her Tanzanian visit this month.