February 15, 2012 - 11:29am
Dr. Cynthia Riviere – WCMC-GHESKIO and Dr. Arash Rafii Tabrizi – WCMC-Qatar are co-authors on a paper on cervical cancer in Haiti. They provide on-going cervical cancer screening and clinical care to women at the GHESKIO Health Clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Rates of cervical cancer disproportionately... Read More
February 6, 2012 - 8:27am
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Kathryn Bolles, Ph. D., Director of Emergency Health and Nutrition at Save The Children, will be speaking as part of the Department of Pediatrics Grand Rounds at Weill Cornell. She will be addressing the evolution of humanitarian aid using... Read More
February 3, 2012 - 12:00pm
Dr. Halinder Mangat, attending Physician in Neurocritical Care and Assistant Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience and Neurosurgery, recently visited Weill Bugando to conduct training in neurology for Bugando’s medical residents. After rounding on the ICU wards every morning, Dr. Mangat spent every... Read More
January 20, 2012 - 8:27am
Donald McNeil, Jr., a science and health reporter for the New York Times, began his lecture at WCMC with a series of fascinating stories and nuanced insights into the world of global health and working abroad. He depicted his travels from Mogadishu, Somalia to Mumbai, India, detailing stories on the... Read More
December 14, 2011 - 11:28am
Dr. Frank Bia, Medical Director at Americares, gave Global Health Grand Rounds in November. His talk focused on his AmeriCares experience with global maternal health initiatives and their work in Haiti as case studies. Dr. Bia discussed the Gift-in-Kind structure of AmeriCares focusing on the need to... Read More
December 2, 2011 - 5:34am
Weill Bugando held its 4th Graduation Ceremony on November 19, 2011 in Mwanza, Tanzania. The graduating class included 65 MD students, 10 MMED residents, and Bugando’s first PhD candidate. In a country with just 1 physician per 50,000 patients – the lowest ratio of physicians to patients in the... Read More
December 1, 2011 - 8:33am
The cholera outbreak in Haiti – one of the worst in recent history – has presented new challenges to victims of the 2010 earthquake. GHESKIO constructed a permanent Cholera Treatment Center on its downtown campus to combat the epidemic. Between October 2010 and October 2011, 7,108 patients were... Read More
September 19, 2011 - 12:21pm
Mothers’ Clubs:
GHESKIO serves over 300 HIV-positive pregnant women a year. To enhance the care and support given to these patients, the nutrition program organizes Mothers’ Clubs. As part of the clubs, women meet monthly to receive one-on-one medical care from GHESKIO... Read More
September 19, 2011 - 7:55am
The Global Health Grand Rounds form a central part of Weill Cornell's newly established Global Health Curriculum. Free and open to the public, the monthly lecture series serves as a platform for dialogue on contemporary global health challenges with renowned leaders in the field.Upcoming Lectures2012-... Read More
June 15, 2011 - 12:12pm
Louis Wade Sullivan, MD and Katrina Mitchell, MDKatrina Mitchell, MD, a fellow of the Center for Global Health and senior general surgery resident, recently received the Louis Wade Sullivan, MD Resident/Fellow Award for Excellence in Public Health Advocacy at the 2011 Pioneers in Diversity Awards... Read More
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