As her interest in global health grew, Clark became keen to work in a developing country. Whilst in Dhaka Clark wrote for The BMJ, The Guardian and Grand Challenges Canada. She completed an academic writing residency at Lake Como. Here she investigated the over-medicalisation of global health at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, and wrote a four part series outlining whether global health had become too medicalised, the medicalisation of mental health, the medicalisation of non-communicable diseases and the medicalisation of Universal Health Coverage campaigns.