Today was our first full day at the hospital. Vijay sent a car to pick us up from the hotel, a welcome treat and no need to leave extra travel time for negotiating with rickshaw drivers or potential breakdowns! All four of us spent the morning at the Chilakalguda facility. First we met with the […] Continue Reading
Two lengthy plane rides and three continents later we made it to India. We were all exhausted, but thrilled to be on the ground and excited for what lay ahead. In an attempt to waste no time we checked into our hotel, dropped off our bags, and immediately head out for some Hyderabad sightseeing. We […] Continue Reading
Hello from Boston Logan airport! Our bags are checked and we are ready for a two-week adventure in Hyderabad, India, working for LifeSpring Hospitals. Our trip is part of a course at MIT Sloan called GlobalHealth Lab. The course was designed to match healthcare providers in sub-saharan Africa and India with graduate students at MIT, […] Continue Reading
By Anjali Sastry and Rebecca Weintraub In 2007, we met Dr Jim Yong Kim as he gathered faculty across Harvard and MIT to envision a new field of study in Global Health Delivery. Dr Kim already had an astounding record to build on: a practicing physician and medical anthropologist, he’d put his smarts to practical […] Continue Reading
Dateline: March 2012 Location: Hyderabad, India by Kate Krontiris and Lina Sayed Kate Krontiris is a graduate student of public policy and business at the Harvard Kennedy School and the MIT Sloan School of Management. Lina Sayed is a second-year MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. They are students of Global Health Delivery, travelling […] Continue Reading
Dateline: March 2012 Location: Kipkaren, rural Western Kenya We have arrived in Chebaiywa! Last week, the clinical staff of Chebaiywa Health Center welcomed us as we began our GHD project. The staff greeted us with a beautiful song and introductions. The warm welcome kicked off an experience that has been truly amazing. On our first day, Michelle, […] Continue Reading
Dateline: mid-March 2012 Location: MIT Sloan By: Deborah Hsieh Hola! The days are counting down until we arrive in Mozambique! Where do I fit if I care about global health, but don’t have medical training? – In class, one of the standout moments was hearing from Bill Rodriguez. On one hand, he acknowledged the need for […] Continue Reading
Dateline: mid-March 2012 Location: MIT Sloan By: MIT Sloan ghdLAB students What would your life be like without a refrigerator, or a stovetop, or somewhere to charge your cell phone? Sitting in Cambridge, Massachusetts it is practically impossible to imagine. While talk of an energy crisis peppers our discussions, our electrified homes and gadgets are […] Continue Reading
Dateline: mid-March 2012 Location: MIT Sloan by David Hilliard In less than a week, I leave to work on a project in a rural health center in Kenya!! My teammate, Pipe, and I are extremely excited to touch ground next week and put our research to work. We are visiting three host sites over the […] Continue Reading
Dateline: Mid-March 2012 Location: MIT Sloan by Marisa Gerla & Mary Anito Our ghdLab project has officially kicked-off and we’re starting to get a better idea of what we will be focusing on. This semester we will we working with the Sustainable Housing Initiative Project, or SHIP, in Mbarara, Uganda, which is a partnership with […] Continue Reading
Dateline: mid-March 2012 Location: MIT Sloan by Thapana “Pipe” Chairoj After realizing how much impact our team could potentially make for our host organization in the long-run, I became excited to put our knowledge and expertise into practice. Currently without any medical record system, Chebaiywa Health Center (CHC) has an ambitious goal of implementing OpenMRS […] Continue Reading
Dateline: mid-March 2012 Lcocation: MIT Sloan By: Sydney Atkins and Julia Kay Preis With our trip around the corner we struggle to strike a healthy balance of excitement and anticipation. Neither of us been to Botswana, and both are excited for our work ahead with Daktari Diagnostic. Daktari is a diagnostic company based in Cambridge […] Continue Reading
Dateline: February 2012 Location: MIT Sloan By: ghdLAB students Last week, MIT’s ghdLAB Special Projects team had the great opportunity to chat with Ophelia Dahl, the Executive Director of Partners in Health. The Partners in Health organization was started by Ophelia and the legendary Paul Farmer and as of today has 15,000 employees in 20 […] Continue Reading
Dateline: February 2012 Location: MIT Sloan by Mary Anito In class last week we had the pleasure of talking to some of the leaders in the global health delivery space. Along with Ophelia Dahl (from Partners in Health; see another ghdLAB post on her) and and Marty Collier (from the Access Project in Rwanda), we were joined […] Continue Reading
Blog post by Alice Hartley “Today we can see that in the poorest places, only integrated approaches—those that take into account water, sanitation, economic opportunity, education and infrastructure along with health—sustainably and adequately address public health needs…Figuring out how to bring the complex matrix of development together requires systems knowledge, financing, and superb management.” –Josh […] Continue Reading
