Tag: primary care

Primary and Community-Engaged Healthcare at the Frontline of Medicine

  Dr. Prasad is the kind of doctor you want treating your family and community. His story began in South India. In 1992, there was a cholera epidemic in the entire district but no one died from the infectious water-borne disease. This was due to the fact that for the past three years, the community

NU Students to be Community Health Volunteers for Erie Family Health Center

Northwestern students are currently attending weekly training sessions for very exciting work that they will begin with Erie Family Health Center. The volunteers will be working closely with Erie Health Center staff in order to promote Erie health information and health care services. Erie Family Health Center delivers high-quality, culturally-sensitive, bilingual health care to more

Alcohol: A Key Concern for the Post-2015 Health Agenda in Ireland

After studying public health in Ireland, I noticed that my professors and authors, whose texts I read, differed from my American public health professors in one major way: the topics of focus differed largely between the two nations. In America, my studies have often tended to focus on obesity, HIV/AIDS, and global development. In contrast,

AMPATH: An Academic Partnership Changing Kenya

Counterpart relationships, a community-based approach and a focus on care above all else is what makes AMPATH a success story. The program, which is a partnership between Moi University School of Medicine and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, and a consortium of U.S. medical schools led by Indiana University, is one of