New Partnership Expands Global Health Research, Education Opportunities in Brazil
DGHI has signed an agreement with the Federal University of Sao Paulo and its Paulista Medical School to develop sustainable programs to improve health care delivery to underserved populations in Brazil. The two entities will work together to develop a robust research agenda to better understand the burden of disease on underserved populations across the region and in the Amazon, and evaluate the results of interventions to decrease the burden of disease. Particular areas of common strength and research interest include global mental health, cardiovascular disease, oncology, infectious diseases and ophthalmology.
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 Duke, Partners Open 10-bed Cardiac Care Unit in Kenya
In Eldoret, Kenya on Friday, Duke Department of Medicine Chief Mary Klotman stood by the Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Health and many others from Duke, the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, the Kenyan government and the public, to officially celebrate a new 10-bed cardiac care unit. The unit marks a critical step forward for health care in Western Kenya.
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 The Rwanda HRH Program: Helping Rwandans Get Ahead of the Race
By Brian Robinson
From the beginning of the Rwanda Human Resources for Health (HRH) Program, primary stakeholders, the Ministry of Health in Rwanda and U.S. home institutions - including Duke University-- have envisioned the side-by-side mentoring of Rwandan faculty that enables the transfer of skill from U.S. faculty to their Rwandese counterpart. As with all new programs, those on the ground had to realize that vision is a guide, not necessarily a hard fast rule. All programs have been able to adjust the idea of "twinning" to meet the needs of Rwandan institutions and U.S. home institutions. While there are many forms of successful twinning occurring in Rwanda, the internal medicine department at CHUK (Kigali University Teaching Hospital) is working hard to keep that mentoring model.
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