November 21, 2012 - 5:54am
(Left to right: Drs. Abdallah Mlwati, Rehema Shedafa, and Awilly Chofle)
Drs. Abdallah Mlwati, Rehema Shedafa, and Awilly Chofle, from Mwanza, Tanzania, are currently completing a 6-week rotation in the Department of Medicine at New York Presbyterian Hospital through... Read More
October 17, 2012 - 12:17pm
The GHESKIO kindergarten and primary school opened its doors in October 2010 on the GHESKIO campus. The school, called “Ecole Maternelle et Primaire de GHESKIO”, teaches children from six to twelve years old whose former schools were destroyed by the earthquake. In addition to the required basic... Read More
September 6, 2012 - 6:33am
Each summer, Cornell University undergraduate students and medical students from WCMC and WCMC-Qatar travel to Mwanza, Tanzania, to complete an 8-week internship in Weill Bugando Medical Center (WBMC). Students have the opportunity to rotate through departments in the hospital with Tanzanian medical... Read More
September 4, 2012 - 11:07am
Drs. Anthony Liwa, Samuel Pierre, Neema Kanyange, and Paulo Rocha
Four international doctors from Brazil, Haiti, and Tanzania recently completed a two-month intensive clinical epidemiology training program at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in their first step towards... Read More
July 19, 2012 - 8:07am
On Monday, July 16th, GHESKIO and Partners in Health announced that the pilot project to vaccinate 100,000 Haitians against cholera successfully reached almost 90% of the target population with both doses of the oral vaccine. Success of the pilot project has garnered government support to integrate the... Read More
June 11, 2012 - 12:15pm
May marked the beginning of construction of a new 35-bed tuberculosis hospital at GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince. Made possible by a generous gift from BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), the hospital will treat patients with TB and MDR-TB. The 2010 earthquake destroyed all three major tuberculosis... Read More
June 7, 2012 - 11:01am
Sean Behan and Dr. Arash Rafii at GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
As a Research Assistant at the Center for Global Health at WCMC over the past year, I have been fortunate to study one of the largest and least studied public health crises facing the women of Haiti. Haiti has... Read More
April 20, 2012 - 11:09am
Four international doctors from Brazil, Haiti, and Tanzania recently completed a two-month intensive clinical epidemiology training program at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC) in their first step towards pursuing a Masters degree. The program emphasizes practical foundations and... Read More
April 19, 2012 - 8:25am
Weill Cornell Global Health Grand Rounds presents
Fighting for a Second Chance:The Need for Global Health Equity in Cancer Care
Seun Adebiyi, JD
Seun Adebiyi is a cancer survivor, a lawyer and is now training to be the first Nigerian athlete in the Winter Olympics. His vision is to build the first... Read More
February 27, 2012 - 9:15am
Drs. Kamiar and Arash Alaei:The Alaei brothers were detained in 2008 and convicted as conspirators working with an "enemy government" to overthrow the government of Iran. Their travel to international AIDS conferences was used as a basis for this charge. The brothers spent over two years in imprisonment... Read More
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