May 31, 2011 - 7:17am
Dr. Jen Downs with some of the women who participated in her study.
On May 24, 2011 Dr. Jennifer Downs won first prize in the Department of Medicine's 20th Annual Investigator Award Event. Dr. Downs, a recent graduate of the Weill Cornell Master's program in clinical epidemiology and health... Read More
April 27, 2011 - 12:11pm
Students at the newly opened Ecole Vocationelle GHESKIO (GHESKIO Vocational School) will train for 6 months in construction trades.
The Ecole Vocationnelle GHESKIO (GHESKIO Vocational School) has enrolled its first class of 200 trainees from tent cities in Port au Prince. One of GHESKIO's goals for... Read More
March 30, 2011 - 8:46am
Dr. Jill Blumenthal (PGY-3 Internal Medicine) completed a rotation at Weill Bugando in Mwanza, Tanzania in January 2011.
Dr. Jill Blumenthal and Dr. Raja Taunk at Weill Bugando Medical Center
During my last week in Tanzania, I had the pleasure of meeting a visiting anesthesiologist from the... Read More
February 1, 2011 - 12:06pm
Neurosurgical Missions in Tanzania
Neurosurgical diseases have a dramatic impact on society and on economic conditions in developing countries but, unfortunately, are not on the radar screen of governmental or private health or support organizations. In East Africa traumatic brain injuries,... Read More
January 24, 2011 - 8:16am
March 17, 2011
"Poverty and Disease in the Developing World: Lessons from Sub-Saharan Africa"
Dr. Estomih Mtui: Associate Professor of Anatomy in Cell and Developmental Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College
Qatar Global Health Club: Estomih Mtui from Cornell Global Health on Vimeo.
February 2... Read More
January 12, 2011 - 6:14am
A Haitian family living in GHESKIO's tent camp. The three young boys are being treated for tuberculosis.
In the twelve months following the earthquake, we continued lifesaving HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis treatment for thousands of patients, provided humanitarian relief to 7,... Read More
October 4, 2010 - 6:39am
By Dr. Christina Gagliardo, now a pediatric infectious disease fellow at Children's Hospital of New York Presbyterian, Columbia University Medical CenterDr. Gagliardo and a new friend at Weill Bugando 1/29/10 through 3/14/10, Weill Bugando Medical Center, Mwanza, Tanzania Having done some work in... Read More
October 3, 2010 - 7:40am
Mr. Shaibu Hussen, 40, from Kigoma Msimba, was attacked by a crocodile on May 2nd, 2010. Mr. Hussen is a farmer who grows tomatoes and other vegetables. He lives in Msimba but goes to Mgumili village where his farmland is.
On that day, Mr. Hussen was next to his farmland fishing in Lake Tanganyika.... Read More
October 1, 2010 - 8:06am
Dr. Jean Pape, founder and director of GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and professor of medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, received a Clinton Global Citizen Award from former President Bill Clinton during a ceremony in New York City on Thursday, Sept 23.
Dr. Pape, honored for his leadership... Read More
September 20, 2010 - 1:26pm
November 3, 2010 at 4pm in Uris AuditoriumPanel on WCMC/NYP Response to Haiti Earthquake Perspectives from:Patrice Severe, MD, senior physician, GHESKIO in Port-au-Prince, HaitiSatchit Balsari, MD, MPH, Emergency Medicine at NYPDebra Tupé, PhD, MPH, MS, OTR/L, Assistant Professor of Occupational Therapy... Read More
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