tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52182735786658224592024-02-20T07:31:41.956-08:00GlobeMed at Brown UniversityGlobeMed at Brown is a student-run nonprofit that is partnered with an organization in Kenya to address issues of sexual health and global health disparities in a sustainable way.GlobeMed at Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17489248927920605882noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-91264847792187148092014-05-13T16:08:00.001-07:002014-05-13T16:08:48.705-07:00Songs/Cheers: A little bit of what U-Tena does bestSo it's been a while since I last posted, but here's a treat as the end of finals approaches...<br />
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On the evening GlobeMed's first-ever East Africa Forum kicked off, U-Tena did a hearty song and dance to get everyone energized for the weekend (I am attempting to rock the tambourine nonchalantly, but it doesn't work out so well). We were lucky to all have been able to attend--it was an honor meeting so many GlobeMed partners, supporters, and GROW interns, and environments like these really hit home the idea of having a GlobeMed family. While the 2014 East Africa Forum will not be open for GROW interns, we know it'll be a wonderful gathering of wonderful people, and we can't wait to see what comes of it!<br />
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Watch the highlights of the 2013 forum <a href="http://vimeo.com/73028210" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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-ElaineGlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-32494917546446131272014-03-18T12:56:00.001-07:002014-03-18T20:35:36.947-07:00FGM in Egypt<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For the first time in Egypt, charges are being laid against a doctor for committing female genital mutilation after a 13-year-old girl, Sohair al-Bata, died after allegedly undergoing FGM at his clinic. Sohair's father is also facing prosecution: her family had purportedly asked for the procedure to be carried out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">FGM has been officially banned in Egypt since 2008, but a majority of the country's women are still subjected to it. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/mar/14/egyptian-doctor-first-prosecution-fgm-female-genital-mutilation" target="_blank">This Guardian article</a> on the case cites the following statistic: 91% of married Egyptian women aged between 15 and 49 have been subjected to FGM, 72% of them by doctors.' It is claimed by FGM supporters that the practice makes women less likely to commit adultery.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There are also millions of women in other countries who undergo such mutilation, a common practice in many African countries and some others in the Middle East and Asia. It is a complicated issue as often women in the societies practising FGM support it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">a <a href="http://www.equalitynow.org/FGM_in_US_FAQ" target="_blank">factsheet</a> on FGM in the US,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and an <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/06/female-genital-mutilation-foreign-crime-common-uk" target="_blank">article</a> on trying to prevent FGM in Britain, perhaps relevant to the US.</span><br />
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third civil war, which started in 2013.
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recent years, stock-outs of ARV’s have had a detrimental effect, both socially
and physically. The stock-out is in part, due to the freeze of funding coming
from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria in response to
funds falling into corrupt hands and being spent irresponsibly. Although this strategy may be more effective
in terms of traceability of funds, it has created lasting damage to the
patients whose condition depends on these drugs. In order to make the current prescriptions of
ARV’s last longer, patients have taken to trying strategies that may in fact
reduce the effectiveness of the drugs and help the virus to become more
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stock-out of ARV’s not only had devastating effects on the health of patients,
but also on the social perception of the doctors and organizations working to
improve health and standard of living in the area. The sporadic and untimely freezing of funds
has generated a difficult but understandable mistrust of the system put in
place. The interpretation of the
situation may also generate problems because people may chalk up the patient’s
resistance to the drug regime as simple “cultural reasons”. This ties in with the discussion we had last
meeting regarding how much of the problems being faced in the crossroads of the
medical world can be written off as a result of cultural difference and which
problems should be analyzed at a deeper level.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-39763712317040719882014-03-15T11:39:00.000-07:002014-03-15T11:39:16.364-07:00The Role of Culture in Medical Treatment<span style="font-family: inherit;">Last GlobeMed meeting, we read a short summary of Anne Fadiman's, <i>The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down</i>. In the book, Lia Lee suffers from epilepsy, but her family's traditional Hmong beliefs and culture conflicts with California doctors' treatment protocols, which ultimately led to an episode that caused her to live the later 26 years of her 30-year-lifetime in a vegetative state. We began to discuss current-day issues we see with cultural differences in medicine. There are language barriers, age barriers, religious differences, knowledge gaps, etc. that can prevent people from getting medical treatment they need, or influence them to take on unnecessary medical treatments.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Last year, I took a class on Human Rights for Women and Children in Africa, in which we questioned the foundational definitions of human rights. Part 1 of Article 25 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights states, "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing, and medical care and necessary social service, and the right to sexurity in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control." This sounded great when I first read it; I mean who would disagree with that statement? But then my teacher brough up some things I had never thought about. First, in chapter 3 of <i>Politics of the Womb: WOmen, Reproduction and the State in Kenya</i>, Lynn M. Thomas discuses "the girls who circumcised themselves" after FGM was banned in Kenya in 1956 to satisfy Western (particularly British) human rights views. Then we discussed women who prefer to have at-home births with traditional spiritual (and not medically trained) midwives in certain states such as Chad. Finally, when we were comparing differences between life expectancies in the US and other Western countries with those in many African countries, my teacher posed a question along the lines of, what if people in these cultures would rather die in the way 'fate' had destined them to die than get operations and take medications that might make them live longer, but not necessarily fuller lives?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have struggled to come up with any sort of solution to this juxtaposition. I personally believe that under the law of human rights, Lia Lee should have been given her medication, etc. People with epilepsy can lead semi-normal lives with treatment, and I think that she had the right to be given that opportunity. I do think doctors should have been more understanding of Lee's family's beliefs, and maybe should have tried to come up with a way to gain the trust of Lia's parents so that they would give Lia the medication, but I'm not sure that would've changed her parents' behavior very much. I think it should be a human right for people to choose whether they want to take a medication, seek medical treatment, etc., but this does complicate things when cross-cultural medical treatment is involved. As I said before, I still don't have answers to this question of how to create culturally sensitive treatments that work for certain medical issues. Do we ifnore culture in order to treat someone that doesn't want treatment, because we think it's the right thing to do? Do we completely take away culturally embedded practices and beliefs such as at-home-births or FGM because they may violate our western standards of human rights, or do we find ways to alter the practices to make them a bit safer. I don't know, but I do think that it is an important question to ask.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">-Rebecca</span>GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-38449074991012153392014-03-09T20:28:00.002-07:002014-03-09T20:28:30.993-07:00"I asked five questions in Genetics class today, and all of them started with the word 'Sorry.' "In 1948, the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the UN, specifying that everyone, regardless
of sex, was entitled to the same rights and freedoms. Nearly 50 years later, the 1997 Human Development Report concluded, "No society treats its women as well as its men." Women face inequalities all around the world, such as the continued barring of women from driving in Saudi Arabia, feticide and infanticides in China and India, and the lack of the right to own land in Chile.<br />
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Although conditions are far better in the United States, the patriarchy still exists. In celebration of March and Women's History Month, here are some amazing voices from slam poets around the country. It's interesting to consider the images they paint and how these issues are still prevalent in the Brown community.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOv47njeLHQ" target="_blank">"This Is For You" </a><br />
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-BettyGlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-28887285539142566722014-03-09T17:44:00.000-07:002014-03-09T19:55:59.820-07:002014 GROW Institute in Chicago, Illinois<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;"><i>"GROW is when the GlobeMed mission becomes human. It is when "students" becomes replaced with your names, "communities" with your partner, and your MOU becomes real." -Maya Cohen, Executive Director, GlobeMed</i></span></b><br />
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Hi everyone!<br />
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Over the weekend of February 22-23rd, Ilkania and I attended the 2014 GROW Institute in Chicago, Illinois. It was a weekend of training, inspiration, GlobeMed love, and cold -- that's for sure!<br />
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The weekend kicked-off with introductory remarks from the Director of Partnerships, Alyssa Smaldino, and the Executive Director, Maya Cohen, each speaking about their past experiences as GROW interns in Rwanda and Uganda, respectively. Hearing each of these inspirational women reflect fondly on their time as interns and with such passion about the GlobeMed network (all while being in a room with over a hundred other bright-eyed GROW interns, mind you) sent a shot of adrenaline throughout me. Achieving social justice and improving global health are daunting tasks -- it is too easy to feel inadequate or become inactive in the mission for fear of criticism or failure or because the news keeps telling you how bad of a place the world is. But something Maya said resonated with me. She said: "GROW is when the GlobeMed mission becomes human. It is when "students" becomes replaced with your names, "communities" with your partner, and your MOU becomes real." Maya's positive outlook and sincere investment in achieving health care equality was genuinely touching and moving-- I carried this excitement and energy with me throughout the rest of the weekend.<br />
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Saturday and Sunday consisted of various workshop activities and small-group breakouts focused on creating Partnership Action Frameworks, common goal agendas, and Monitoring and Evaluating techniques.<br />
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One of the main highlights of the weekend was the photo challenge on Saturday night. Led by the wonderful Caroline Nguyen from the National Office, the Humans of Chicago challenge sought to teach GROW interns how to take ethical, aesthetic photos by breaking us up into teams of five, sending us into the city, and giving us two hours to capture a prize-winning photo and caption.<br />
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As for the winner of the 2014 Human of Chicago challenge... Team #1! Each member of the winning team received $20 for their respective partner organizations, which means that GlobeMed at Brown received $20 for our partner, U-Tena, in Nairobi! (Check out the winning photo and caption below!)<br />
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The weekend wrapped up with an inspiring talk on fostering inclusive teams by Dominique Hazzard, the new Diversity & Inclusion Coordinator. Many fellow GlobeMed peers commented on the diversity present in the room, with one student, Breanna Wilkerson from Spelman College, calling the space "revolutionary." After reflecting on my time in the GlobeMed network, I have to agree with Breanna. The 2014 GROW Institute was, hands-down, the most revolutionary, inspiring, and diverse space that I have been in with fellow GlobeMed peers. I am so blessed to be a part of this network and cannot wait to see where the next few years bring us!<br />
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"I talk to cab drivers from Africa - Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya - they tell me that I'm right, that they hate this city too but they can't say anything because they're immigrants."<br />
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<br />GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-55190398769077922412014-03-04T19:20:00.002-08:002014-03-04T19:21:35.705-08:00More on the Grassroots Initiatives for Global Health Conference at MIT<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; letter-spacing: 0px;">As you all already know Marisa, Meygan, and I attended MIT’s Grassroots Initiatives for Global Health conference some weeks back. Marisa wrote a blog post about the specifics of it. I wanted to focus a bit more on the main lessons from the conference and about my personal experience.</span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">To begin with, I would like to mention, again, that I love going to GlobeMed events hosted by other chapters and the national office! They are great for networking with public health professionals I look up to, learning about various issues, and meet great people our age with the same interests. I have also found that talking to others involved with GlobeMed has increased my passion for our mission and I’ve received some great advice about how to improve our chapter from members of other chapters. GlobeMed events/conferences are great for collaborative learning! Moral of this post; attend these events!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">One of the great, new opportunities I learned about is PIH Engage. PIH Engage is a new project launched by Partners in Health that focuses on brining people together to discuss global health issues and to advocate for the social justice and health equity. This program goes hand-in-hand with GlobeMed’s mission to give voice to the voice-less. Check it out, here’s the link <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://act.pih.org/page/content/community-organizing">http://act.pih.org/page/content/community-organizing</a>.</span></span></div>
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GlobeMed at Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17489248927920605882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-47329025528359880422014-03-04T09:31:00.002-08:002014-03-04T09:31:26.930-08:00Lupita Nyong'o and the OscarsSo I'm sure most of y'all were like me and spent your time this Sunday night glued to the tv watching the 2014 Oscars. And if you did this for even 5 minutes you probably saw <i>12 Years a Slave </i>winning every award possible. What you might not know is that Lupita Nyong'o, the winner of "Best Supporting Actress" for her role as Patsey, actually started her career in the Kenyan TV show, Shuga.<br />
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Shuga is actually a show produced by MTV with the goal of using popular entertainment as a vehicle for communicating and promoting messages about healthy sexual behavior among African Youth. Not only was Lupita an actress in the series, but she is also a co-director. After the Oscars ceremony, the president of Kenya went so far as to tweet that Lupita is the "Pride of Africa", demonstrating just how much Lupita means to the country<br />
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If anyone wants to check out this incredibly entertaining TV show- that also has a great public health message- here's the link to the first episode! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jo4l1VJUFkQ<br />
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I know I actually watched some episodes in the U-Tena office this summer and would strongly recommend it!<br />
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- MaggieGlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-80550887982909107882014-03-02T12:53:00.003-08:002014-03-02T12:53:56.328-08:00Some Reflections on Ugandan HIV/AIDS...Hey guys!<br />
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So last week in ghU, Annabel, our lovely coordinator, brought in a TED talk to share (<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/emily_oster_flips_our_thinking_on_aids_in_africa.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/emily_oster_flips_our_thinking_on_aids_in_africa.html</a>). Emily Oster, a UChicago economist, presents data to show that HIV prevalence relies on more than success or failure of prevention campaigns. She focuses solely on Uganda to show the correlation between economic well-being and decreases in HIV prevalence; coffee exports in Uganda increased with decreased HIV levels.<br />
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Our discussion last Tuesday brought up some key points. Clearly, as Oster states, high HIV prevalence should not be completely attributed to prevention campaigns themselves. Cultural and economic well-being should be considered as well. However, the example of Uganda may just be a unique case study that does not provide blanket statements on how other countries should handle the HIV problem.<br />
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This TED talk was filmed in 2007--therefore some of Oster's data is outdated. According to the AIDS Indicator Survey conducted by Demographic and Health Surveys, rates of HIV infection increased from 6.4% to 7.3% from 2004 to 2011. Though this increase may not be as statistically significant as the drop in rates from the 1990s to the 2000s, this is significant nonetheless. Uganda may not be a success story at all. According to Oster's position, one may blame this on the recession in the latter part of the decade. However, this increase was not significant enough to have it linked to such a large economic problem. Uganda is a large portion Christian, and church-goers have voiced negative opinions on prevention campaigns. Stigma and risky sexual behavior (see AIDS Indicator Survey in 2004 and 2011) has also increased.<br />
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Therefore, each case of HIV/AIDS is different, and to solely attribute the prevalence rates to one reason may need some reconsideration. There are many factors, and addressing all the nuances of individual countries might tackle the HIV epidemic more effectively than what Oster has managed to suggest.<br />
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Hopefully this triggers some thought on a relevant public health concern.<br />
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~EricaGlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-71061645567376379602014-02-24T18:12:00.001-08:002014-02-24T18:12:57.154-08:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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Global health news, a new report has been written on attempting to reduce
maternal and neonatal deaths from childbirth in Indonesia, where childbirth
related deaths are still incredibly high. Indonesia signed the Millennium
Development Goals, but it is estimated that they will not achieve these goals
by the target date. The country is spread out over an archipelago of thousands
of islands, and though the country has been greatly urbanized into over 10
megacities, most of the population lives in rural areas in islands where
medical attention is really hard to get. Though there are many midwives in
Indonesia that can attend to women in childbirth, most of them are not properly
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cesarean sections, blood transfusions, and neonatal intensive care. Dr. Adashi,
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GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-13028620628986506402014-02-24T10:33:00.003-08:002014-02-24T10:41:10.348-08:00MIT's Grassroots Initiatives for Global Health Conference (Saturday February 8, 2014)Hi everyone,<br />
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Two weekends ago, Meygan, Ilkania, and I took a day trip to MIT's campus in Cambridge, MA to attend MIT's first GlobeMed and global health conference: Grassroots Initiatives for Global Health.<br />
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Our day began at 10 AM in an auditorium in MIT's Green Building (aesthetically, the MIT equivalent of Brown's SciLi) with opening remarks by members of MIT's GlobeMed chapter, followed by a touching personal story (relevant to global health) by Liana Woskie of the Harvard Initiative on Global Health Quality. While munching Dunkin' Donuts Munchkins and sipping hot coffee, we attendees expressed our inquisitiveness and passion for the subject of global health by asking challenging and complex questions of a panel of Boston-area global health organizations. The members of this panel were Owen Robinson of Haiti Cardiac Alliance (the moderator of the panel), Adam Korn of Save a Child's Heart, Ann Peralta of the Peace Corps, and Partners in Health. After an hour of mentally stimulating panel-audience Q&A, we broke for lunch and small-group discussion.<br />
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The auditorium-sized audience split up into four groups of about 25 people each, and each of these groups went to a smaller classroom for discussion. In my group, I had the chance not only to talk to undergraduate GlobeMed members from other schools, but also to grad students and adults in global health-related careers who hadn't even necessarily known before what GlobeMed is about. Between swapping stories with these attendees, we were fed a tasty Whole Foods buffet lunch and got to hear Amee Amin and Suchitra Kulkarni talk to us about Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: that "(1) everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessarily social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control and (2) motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance; all children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection." Once they finished, Jon Shaffer of Partners in Health told us a little of his background and how his experience as a GlobeMed member has been incredibly beneficial to his work with Partners in Health.<br />
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After a little over an hour in the small groups, everyone returned to the auditorium to watch a screening of <i>Pray the Devil Back to Hell</i> (and a Q&A with the director, Gini Reticker), which was followed by closing remarks by Peter Luckow of Last Mile Health, GlobeMed at MIT, and others. Meygan, Ilkania, and I decided to head back to Brown after the small group discussion, however, so unfortunately we did not participate in this portion of the conference. Still, from what we did get to see of the conference, it was a very fun, educational, and inspiring day –– listening to real global health leaders describe how they got into their work, meeting others in the Boston area who are interested in global health, and seeing the GlobeMed network come together as a community to discuss all that GlobeMed stands for and how we can make the world a better place.<br />
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MarisaGlobeMed at Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17489248927920605882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-7402011383584302562014-02-23T10:32:00.001-08:002014-02-23T10:32:10.664-08:00The New Global Health Security Agenda<div class="p1">
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Just wanted to give you an optimistic update on the global health front. A little over a week ago, Secretary of State John Kerry announced the Global Health Security Agenda. Involving twenty-six countries, various departments of the U.S. government, and American global health organizations, the GHSA is an international effort to improve prevention, reduction, and response techniques to pandemics. Despite the existence of effective antibiotics, the leading cause of mortality worldwide is still infections--bacterial,viral, parasitic--leading to one-third of all deaths. What was equally alarming to me was that the GHSA is also a response to the increasing threat of not only natural outbreaks of disease and the rise of drug-resistant pathogens, but also terrorist attacks that release harmful biological or chemical agents. While the specifics of the agenda are yet to be revealed, it is a hopeful first step that so many leading countries have acknowledged global health security as an urgent priority, and are working together towards eliminating these devastating infectious diseases.</div>
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-Kaori</div>
GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-20640627680517064382013-12-09T18:57:00.001-08:002013-12-09T18:57:30.174-08:00Hi all,<br />
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Today I thought I'd take the chance to introduction y'all to one of my favorite global health NGO's (other than U-Tena of course!) called Nyaya Health. Nyaya Health is also the partner organization for Tuft's Globemed chapter so it's relevant in more than one way. They are a 'for purpose' health organization that dedicates themselves to working for the right to health in rural Nepal. One of the reasons Nyaya sticks out in my mind is because of their dedication to transparency. Nyaya Health founded itself on the principle of "being transparent until it hurts". They want to end the age-old image of the perfect aid organization that is secretly collecting money and allocating large portions to overheads. To do this not only does Nyaya have a public wiki with all financial and day to day activities of its staff, but they also write blog articles about both their failures and successes. Today I want to share with you one of my favorite such pieces, entitled "Walls and Flies" and written by their co-founder Duncan Maru.<br />
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http://www.nyayahealth.org/blog/walls-and-flies/GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-411917449661900172013-12-08T14:36:00.005-08:002013-12-08T14:36:58.711-08:00Kenya's Health Care System<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 16px;">Hey everyone,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; font-size: 16px;">Just thought it would be a good idea to kind of just take a step back and get a little background knowledge about what the health care system is like in Kenya. Just to look at the basis of the system and its main goals and funding, and compare it to our system. I found this link with the general info:</span><br />
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GlobeMed at Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17489248927920605882noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-84090002013694409602013-12-05T10:50:00.001-08:002013-12-05T10:50:09.750-08:00Songs/Cheers: Meeting KuzaHey everyone,<br />
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One of the things I looked forward to most was bringing the Kuza Project back to Brown. I've been a bit slow about it (forgive me), but I'll be starting a multi-part series on some of the highlights and thoughts from our GROW trip.<br />
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To start, I wanted to share a treat from our very first week in Nairobi. After a few days of getting acclimated to our humble home of ~2 months, the six of us set out for our very first Kuza Project event, a gender-based-violence workshop for some of the teens in the community and their parents. Among the teens were some of our very own Kuza girls, and Brienne, Anna and I had the pleasure of meeting them.<br />
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Lydia, Maurine, and Caroline (from left to right in the video below) are 14-16 years old and have been in Kuza for its entire existence. They are talented at so many things: Lydia's a blossoming professional hair stylist (literally--she went to beauty school for it!), and Maurine loves singing. The three of them were generous enough to sing a little song for us after we found out they all love to sing and dance, and they got so excited for us to take this back to you guys. Without further ado...<br />
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If anyone happens to know the name of the song, I'd love to know. It's the one thing I forgot to ask them!<br />
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-ElaineGlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-83920055832316262702013-12-03T15:25:00.001-08:002013-12-03T15:25:48.560-08:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify; text-justify: inter-ideograph;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Chronic Kidney disease (CKD), also referred to as chronic renal
disease, is a progressive loss of kidney function over a period of time. The
natural course of CKD extends from being susceptible to the disease, exposed to
the risk factors and to development of CKD that progresses to End Stage Renal
Disease (ESRD). The fast progression of the illness together with the very high
medical costs associated with it makes Chronic Kidney Disease one of the most
dangerous diseases worldwide. Chronic kidney is now the cause of hundreds of
thousands of deaths every year.<sup>1 </sup>It is highly pronounced today
because of the rapid increase in its prevalence, the enormous cost of
treatment, and most importantly, because of its major role in heightening the
risk of cardiovascular disease and other complications. Especially in
developing nations where the health care system is not very advanced, these
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">It has been suggested that as many as 100 million individuals may
be affected by chronic kidney disease globally.<sup>4</sup> Provision of
care for patients who require dialysis or transplantation is a major and
growing healthcare problem in both developed and emerging nations in terms of
cost, premature mortality and economic impact. It is estimated that over 2
million patients with ESRD worldwide are currently on renal replacement therapy
(RRT), at a global cost of around one trillion dollars.<sup>1 </sup>90% of
all treated ESRD patients reside in the West, as the prohibitive cost precludes
renal replacement therapy in most developing nations. Though there is not an
official registry for renal disease cases in most developing countries,<sup>1</sup> it
is undeniable that its effect is more pronounced in the part of the world where
health care is at its worst.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">Chronic kidney disease is at least 3-4 times more frequent in
Africa than in developed countries. Hypertension affects approximately 25% of
the adult population and is the cause of chronic kidney failure in 21% of
patients on renal replacement therapy in the South African Registry. The
prevalence of diabetic nephropathy is estimated to be 14%-16% in South Africa,
23.8% in Zambia, 12.4% in Egypt, 9% in Sudan, and 6.1% in Ethiopia.<sup>5</sup> The
current dialysis treatment rate ranges from 70 per million population in South
Africa to < 20 pmp in the most of sub-Saharan Africa. The transplant rate in
Africa averages 4 pmp. <sup>5<o:p></o:p></sup></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%;">The unavailability of medical supplies, physicians, technology are
all contributory factors to this reality. There is so much that could be done
to decrease the severity of the problem starting from creating awareness in the
community about the disease and how it can possible be prevented, campaigns for
early treatments are also another options.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-86616137059223933242013-12-01T14:54:00.000-08:002013-12-01T14:54:37.593-08:00Giving the Gift of an Education Thanksgiving has come and gone and the stress of papers, finals and of course the impending holiday season is upon us. In the midst of all that is the end of the semester at Brown, it's hard to think ahead to holiday gift giving. The thought of navigating malls or sifting through the internet in light of all else we have to do is entirely daunting. Which is why I want to introduce Globemed and it's blog readers to an organization that gives the gift of education: the Iqra Fund. <div>
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The Iqra fund(Iqra means 'to read' in Arabic) was created by Jennifer Chabot in 2007 after she spent time doing doctoral research on women's education in Pakistan. Today the Iqra fund is a nationally recognized organization that works with communities and employs local leadership to provide girls with educational opportunities that greatly affect their quality of life and the future of their communities. </div>
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Having worked first hand with the Iqra fund, I've seen the impact they have made on the ground in Pakistan and the way in which they have risen from a small grass roots organization to a powerful voice in the future of women's education in the Middle East. </div>
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This holiday season the Iqra fund is urging us to give the meaningful and unique gift of education. They are accepting donations of any amount and to prove that a little goes a long way they give the example of nine year old Jane who donated $10 with which the Iqra fund was able to purchase texts books and a school bag for a girl in Pakistan. Iqra will make a donation in your friend or family's name and you will be both have the knowledge that you are part of an incredible organization and an extraordinary revolution. </div>
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GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-70624849755313392932013-11-17T15:45:00.003-08:002013-11-17T15:46:08.813-08:00Women's Rights and Health OutcomesLately there has been a lot of discussion about women's empowerment in Globemed at Brown. It is interesting to think about how gender roles and women's empowerment directly and indirectly relates to health outcomes. For example, there has been research done in Lesotho, Africa that describes how many AIDS orphans lack caretakers since that is typically a "women's" role, and therefore men are hesitant to take responsibility for care. Issues such as this one really emphasize the fact that gender discrimination and social norms can be devastatingly restrictive in many aspects of daily life. How can these norms be changed or altered in order to better health outcomes? Are health initiatives more or less effective in areas with strong traditional gender roles? I think it is crucial to look at articles and issues written about women rights and the oppression of women and try to put these events in the context of health. How can this societal judgment harm or extinguish the lives of those who give life?<br />
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An interesting article to try to read through this lens is one titled <a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/04/23/why_do_they_hate_us" target="_blank">"Why Do They Hate Us" by Mona Eltahawy. </a><br />
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- Megan M.GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-31863615891242344222013-11-17T11:43:00.003-08:002013-11-17T11:43:26.628-08:00Public Health Concerns in the Aftermath of Haiyan<div class="p1">
<span class="s1">Last week, the Philippines were ravaged by what may be the most severe typhoon in history, Haiyan. The reported death toll has risen to almost 4,000 people, and many more have been injured, displaced from their homes, or otherwise affected. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">According to <a href="http://www.popsci.com/blog-network/our-modern-plagues/public-health-concerns-typhoon-haiyan-aftermath" target="_blank">this Popular Science article by Brooke Borel</a>, the immediate public health concern is dealing with the trauma inflicted by the storm itself, including preventing or treating infection in injuries sustained. To address this, mobile hospitals are being set up around the country to treat patients on the ground as well as address their daily health issues. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Perhaps more difficult to contend with is the public health dangers associated with the loss of infrastructure. With no clean water or reliable sanitation, Filipinos will be extremely vulnerable to diarrheal diseases, like cholera, and vector-borne diseases, like malaria. Preventing the spread of these diseases will be challenging because they they cannot be defeated with medicine alone. To stay healthy, Filipinos will need safe drinking water, sanitation systems, and new housing, even in the most remote areas.</span></div>
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GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-84812385394993231592013-11-14T15:57:00.000-08:002013-11-14T15:57:08.015-08:00How should we approach aid?International aid is a contentious issue. Between the efforts of NGOs and the at times heavy handed influence of developed nations, the realm of aid and relief work is usually a jumbled mess. Progress tends to be iffy, metrics for tracking development skewed, and consistency in methodology and follow-through shoddy at best.<br />
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This TED Talk is one of my favorites. My senior year Economics teacher presented it to the class during our development studies and used it as a launching point for the Sachs vs. Easterly debate in development economics (give this a Google search if you have never heard of these guys). Ernesto Sirolli provides a compelling thesis for the reasons behind the failure of much of the developed world's aid work in LDCs. He suggests that rather than coming onto the scene with a predisposed idea of what might be the most effective aspect of life to target, the true potential for success in development comes in true cooperation with those in need. A welcoming ear seems to outdo deep pockets when we look toward true progress.<br />
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<a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_want_to_help_someone_shut_up_and_listen.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/ernesto_sirolli_want_to_help_someone_shut_up_and_listen.html</a><br />
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Cheers,<br />
MikeGlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-4828712252438461722013-11-12T17:51:00.001-08:002013-11-12T17:51:58.642-08:00The Increasing Presence of Mental Health in Global Health<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Over the past fifteen year, the
field of global mental health has emerged. International organizations, such as
the World Health Organization, have created departments specifically for mental
health. Prominent health focused NGOs (e.g. Partners in Health and Doctors
Without Borders) have expanded their programs to address mental health and now
employ numerous mental health workers. There are research centers at
universities and hospitals dedicated solely to global mental health. Our
partner, U-Tena, has actually put mental health on their agenda for this year.
This significant push towards understanding and improving mental health has
revealed the significant and prevalence and burden of mental illnesses around
the world. The WHO estimates that mental illness account for 15% of the global
burden of disease and that approximately 4 to 5 million people have a mental
illness. See this recent article on the prevalence and burden of depression for
example of what this research looks like: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001547">http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pmed.1001547</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.
The poor treatment and human rights abuses of individuals with mental illnesses
has also come to light. The famous medical anthropologist, Arthur Kleinmen, wrote
that conditions and treatment of individuals with mental illnesses are “a
failure of humanity” (his 2009 article on this topic: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61510-5/fulltext">http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(09)61510-5/fulltext</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">).
The field of global mental health, however, does certainly have its critics and
there are legitimate concerns about the over use of psychotropic medications
and imposition of western models of mental illness. This article titled “The
Americanization of Mental Illness has more information on this topic: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html?pagewanted=all</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.
While debates rage on about the proper ways to address the issue of mental
illness globally, it is now clear that there is no health without mental health
and that this is an issue anyone interested in global health must confront.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">For more
information on the field of global mental health check out these videos and
articles:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Vikram Patel’s
TED Talk “Mental health for all by involving all”: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/vikram_patel_mental_health_for_all_by_involving_all.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/vikram_patel_mental_health_for_all_by_involving_all.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“Grand
challenges in global mental health”: <a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7354/full/475027a.html">http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7354/full/475027a.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Unseen: Mental Illness’s Global Toll”: <a href="http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/2407.pdf">http://www.cartercenter.org/documents/2407.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">- Daniel C.</span></div>
<!--EndFragment-->GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-50907593585113814842013-11-12T16:53:00.002-08:002013-11-12T16:54:53.316-08:00HCV--silent killer<a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304200804579163523170170660">http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304200804579163523170170660</a><br />
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HCV (Hepatitis C Virus), often called the "silent killer," is a virus that causes Hepatitis C which affects the liver, and may lead to various liver diseases including cirrhosis. HCV is often neglected because it does not have one of the highest rates of infection and mortality rate recorded in the United States. However, considering that the risk groups, such as IDUs (injection drug users), are not included in national surveys, much higher rate of the disease is highly likely. <br />
Especially, baby boomers are under risk, due to high experiment drug uses in the 1960s and 70s and low surveillance of blood supply used in transfusions. <br />
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Push for HCV testing for all baby boomers at doctor's visit may help to catch the "silent killer," and treat it before it leads to liver failure.<br />
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-HwajinGlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-27871006288811966072013-11-11T20:14:00.000-08:002013-11-12T18:20:37.991-08:00Hilltop 2013Hi everyone! This past weekend I attended Hilltop at Columbia, which is a global health conference for students in GlobeMed. I would love to share with you all some of the things I took away from the conference, and how this might help us function as a chapter. I would also like to touch upon some of the main points of the lecturers and how they pertained to the theme of the conference. The theme this year was "Politics, Culture and Business: Expanding the Conversation on Global Health." <br />
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The main takeaway I got from the combination of lecturers and group forums was that the global health discussion is moving in a different direction. The use of the private market to make global health projects possible is something that we are seeing more and more. The first speaker was Mark Arnoldy, the executive director of Nyaya Health. Nyaya is an non-profit that works in Nepal to provide healthcare for those who cannot access it. It does so by using the basic infrastructure already there and building upon it. For example, it works to improve small clinics that are closer to people in rural areas than the major hospital. Another interesting event was a panel of people who work in global health, but also in the business world. The connection of for-profit organizations and non-profit global health organizations was discussed. The notion that businesses can be making a profit while a non-profit also helps to promote health equity is just now being discussed.<br />
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The really great element to the conference was meeting people from GlobeMed chapters from around the Northeast as well as a few people from Wisconsin. My fellow hosted student was actually from the University of Michigan. We had plenty of discussion about our own chapters and how they differed/compared. Overall, I was very impressed by other chapters as described by their representatives. They had some really great ideas for how to raise money, how to unite our chapter, and how to make our name known on campus. I am going to list some of the ideas I jotted down here so that we can all take a look and see if any would be appropriate for Brown:<br />
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-5k (people from many chapters have done this but it may be a bit much for PVD)<br />
-bar crawl (mentioned by a Tufts student)<br />
-Color wars (basically throw paint at each other)<br />
-Gala for GlobeMed<br />
-Karaoke night<br />
-Hosting a party at a club downtown<br />
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These are just a few of the ideas I got from the conference! It was a great experience and I think if you get the chance to attend at least one national conference during your time in GlobeMed you should take it! I think that it gave me and Betty a chance to bond and I ended up making a friend all the way from Michigan. If nothing else, it was a networking opportunity. If anyone has any questions about my experience feel free to talk to me!<br />
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GlobeMed Love,<br />
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Leah RivardGlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-91026699159143797332013-11-05T16:48:00.002-08:002013-11-05T18:37:41.850-08:00Improving health and standard of living 1) <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/ernest_madu_on_world_class_health_care.html" target="_blank">http://www.ted.com/talks/ernest_madu_on_world_class_health_care.html</a><br />
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2) <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mwenda_takes_a_new_look_at_africa.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mwenda_takes_a_new_look_at_africa.html</a><br />
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3)<a href="http://www.ted.com/playlists/67/the_quest_to_end_poverty.html" target="_blank"> http://www.ted.com/playlists/67/the_quest_to_end_poverty.html</a><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I found these TED talks to be interesting, because they relate to the topics we have been talking at our weekly meetings. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">In the first video Ernest Madu uses the Heart Institute of the Caribbean in Jamaica, as an example of what can be done in Nigeria to improve the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. He points out that efficient treatment is possible and does not have to be expensive. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">In the second Andre Mwenda suggests that the international world not just view Africa as a charity case, but should help the continent become self-efficient. The continent needs opportunity and has potential. Africans need wealth, in order to treat the causes that create disparity. </span><br />
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">In the third video Jacqueline Novogratz explains Jane's escape from poverty. Jane lived in a</span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> slum outside of Nairobi, but was able to provide for her family and move into low-cost housing. </span><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">This third link also has 7 other videos, which all relate to the quest of ending poverty. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #3f3f3f; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span>GlobeMed at Brown Universityhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08247918922179470994noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5218273578665822459.post-77553711957439131632013-11-05T12:36:00.001-08:002013-11-05T12:40:21.758-08:00Got Community?This past Sunday, our Community Builders organized a small group of staff to decorate a box that will be used to collect winter clothing donations for the needy. Brown students will get to see our handiwork outside the doors of campus's main dining hall and donate their unwanted clothing to a good cause.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Camille and Megan adorn the clothing donation box with drawings of winter<br />
clothes and other winter-themed items like snowflakes and snowmen :)</td></tr>
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So far this semester, Community Building has done a wonderful job planning events to get staff to know each other. Several weeks ago, the Community Builders prepared a scavenger hunt that pitted the staff (divided into 3 teams) against each other in heated competition to hunt for campus's primary landmarks (and others that were not so well-known or obvious!). In two weeks, the Community Builders will hold a movie screening and potluck meal so staff can gather and socialize one more time before the Thanksgiving break.<br />
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GlobeMed at Brown is just as much about creating community among staff as it is educating staff about global health issues and fundraising for our partner, U-Tena –– so thank you Community Builders for all the fantastic work you're doing!<br />
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Marisa M.GlobeMed at Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17489248927920605882noreply@blogger.com0