April 15, 2020 - 7:17pm
As New York City reaches what may be the peak of COVID-19 cases, our colleagues in Haiti and Tanzania are preparing for the surge in cases that is yet to come.The pandemic has thus far hit mostly upper-middle and high-income countries the hardest, where even developed health systems face shortages in... Read More
March 27, 2020 - 9:20am
On the ground in Tanzania, Dr. Rob Peck, Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell, is working closely with colleagues to prepare Weill Bugando and the National Institute of Medical Research in Mwanza for COVID-19. As of the morning on March 27th, Tanzania had 13 confirmed cases. All the cases... Read More
March 24, 2020 - 2:02pm
The Center for Global Health faculty are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, Haiti, and Tanzania and our top priority is providing clinical care to patients and their families. In New York, eight of our faculty and staff are working in the hospital treating patients and in the clinical... Read More
March 21, 2020 - 10:54pm
Dr. Jean Pape, Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, and his colleagues from GHESKIO and the Haitian Ministry of Health prepare for the arrival of COVID-19 to Haiti. The Ministry of Health’s National Laboratory has been screening suspected cases, and on March 19, 2020, the first two cases... Read More
March 11, 2020 - 1:41pm
Above: Dr. Vanessa Rouzier with her pediatric clinic staff celebrating the 2019 World AIDS Day in HaitiIn 2019, Dr. Vanessa Rouzier joined the Weill Cornell Medicine Faculty at the Center for Global Health. Dr. Rouzier received her MD from McGill University and completed fellowship training in pediatric... Read More
March 1, 2020 - 12:00am
Haiti has among the highest lead levels in the world. Reportedly, used car batteries (shown left) are melted down and turned into cooking pots (shown right), presenting a potential exposure source for lead.Earlier this week, Caleigh Smith, a research assistant with the Center of Global Health, was... Read More
January 9, 2020 - 9:35am
In Tanzania, the overall unmet need for Family Planning (FP) is high, with greater unmet need in poorer, more rural and less educated women.In a recent paper, Christine Aristide and colleagues analyzed perspectives of rural men and women on family planning and used a theoretical framework to summarize... Read More
December 12, 2019 - 5:02pm
Pictured: Tanzanian co-investigator nurse Ndalloh Paul teaching at an educational seminarUnmet need for family planning is high in sub-Saharan Africa and particularly so in northwest Tanzania, where over one-third of sexually active women do not desire pregnancy yet use no effective form of... Read More
November 6, 2019 - 4:28pm
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is now the leading cause of adult mortality in Haiti, having surpassed HIV in the last decade. Responding to this urgent need to understand this emerging epidemic in Haiti, Dr. Margaret McNairy, Associate Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell, has led several research... Read More
October 8, 2019 - 12:08pm
An intervention to lower post-hospital mortality for HIV-infected Tanzanians has recently begun in Mwanza, Tanzania, led by PI Dr. Robert Peck, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Center for Global Health. The intervention, called DARAJA (meaning “bridge” in Swahili), is being assessed in an NIH-... Read More
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