Global and Domestic Health Initiatives

Partnerships

Partners in Health: Strengthening health systems globally, Partners in Health works to save lives, to revitalize communities and to transform global health.

Sites include: Haiti, Lesotho, Liberia, Malawi, Mexico, Navajo Nation, Peru, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.

Affiliations

Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity: The Center for Integration Science in Global Health Equity aims to accelerate the just redistribution of resources in the interest of global health equity by identifying integrated units of operational effectiveness in health care delivery and scaling their implementation through collective action. Website in development - coming soon.

COPE: Partnering with communities to eliminate health disparities and improve wellbeing of American Indians and Alaska Natives. COPE is based in Navajo nation where staff work in community partnerships on issues such as AIDS, cancer care, nutrition, and health system strengthening.

EqualHealth: Supporting quality medical and nursing education in Haiti with the goal of attaining a healthy Haitian population. EqualHealth takes a partner-driven approach developing medical and nursing education initiatives, impacting providers and educators today and developing tomorrow's healthcare leaders.

Global Health Delivery Project: Training and connecting professionals to deliver value-based health care. GHD provides open-access case studies, educational opportunities, and online communities for collaboration.

Last Mile Health: Last Mile Health saves lives in the world's most remote villages. The organization specializes in the development and management of professionalized Community Health Workers who bridge the gap between hospital and remote villages, bringing critical services to the doorsteps of people living in the last mile in Liberia.

Wuqu' Kawoq | Maya Health Alliance: Working in Guatemala’s most impoverished communities to solve pressing health care needs. Wuqu’ Kawoq overcomes barriers to health, uniting medicine, culture, and language.

Multi-Regional Clinical Trial Center (MRCT):The MRCT Center engages diverse stakeholders to define emerging issues in global clinical trials and to create and implement ethical, actionable, and practical solutions.

NCD Synergies: Collaborating to build health systems fighting non-communicable diseases of poverty among the bottom billion most impoverished population globally.

PIVOT Works: Partnering with communities in resource-poor areas combining access to comprehensive healthcare and rigorous research to save lives and break cycles of poverty and disease.

Possible: Delivering high-quality, low cost durable healthcare in rural Nepal. Working with the government's existing infrastructure, Possible delivers healthcare at a hospital, network of clinics and through community health workers.

Seed Global Health: Strengthening health education and delivery in areas with dire shortages of health professionals. With the Peace Corps and PEPFAR, Seed sends US physicians and nurses abroad as educators to work with local faculty to expand capacity and enhance the quality and breadth of education, building strong, sustainable health systems.

Social Medicine Consortium: Fighting for health equity through education, training, service and advocacy, with social medicine at its core. The Consortium engages diverse geographic, professional, racial, and class perspectives in this critical work.

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