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Rwanda Global Health Delivery Course Reported in the NYT
The New York Times on May 13, 2012, reported on collaborative work in medical education, including the Global Health Delivery course taught in Rwanda by faculty from GHSM, the BWH Division of Global Health Equity, HSPH, and PIH. The article highlights the educational approaches of studying cases and learning from course participants, who are health care workers from developing countries. It also mentions the Department’s new MMSc program in Global Health Delivery.
Jim Yong Kim Named World Bank President
Jim Yong Kim, former chair of the HMS Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and current president of Dartmouth College, was named president of the World Bank on April 16, 2012. Dr. Kim is a co-founder of Partners In Health. (Our header links to the World Bank site; see also the Washington Post.)
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Approaches to Expanding Mental Health Care Reported in Science Magazine
14 May 2012
The report, Who Needs Psychiatrists?, appearing in the March 15, 2012, issue of Science features the work of Byron and Mary-Jo Good and others to develop strategies for improving mental health care in developing countries where psychiatrists are scarce. A slide show accompanies the report.Rwanda Team Shows Strength of Community-Based HIV Treatment
07 May 2012
The Global Health Delivery Partnership Rwanda team published an important report documenting the strength of accompaniment and its effect on clinical outcomes. The report, "Excellent Clinical Outcomes and High Retention in Care Among Adults in a Community-Based HIV Treatment Program in Rural Rwanda," appears in the March 1 issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (Vol 59, No 3).