What is the Global Health Center?
In an increasingly interconnected world, the mission of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Global Health Center is to promote the ideal of health for all. Our goals and objectives encompass the domains of education, research, and service, which intersect and overlap in all of our actions. The Global Health Center serves as a central coordinating structure for all of Einstein's global health activities, through which they can be integrated to bring out their synergies, with the ultimate goal of reducing disparities in health and alleviate human suffering.
Global Health Research at Einstein
Einstein Researcher will help lead South African Research Institute for TB and HIV
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of KwaZulu-Natal partnership led by William Jacobs, PhD
A groundbreaking partnership between the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) in South Africa will establish an international research center focused on making major scientific contributions to the worldwide effort to control the devastating co-epidemic of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV and on training a new generation of scientists in Africa. HHMI, a non-profit medical research organization that ranks as one of the nation's largest philanthropies, has committed $60 million to the initiative over the next 10 years.
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Global Health Education at Einstein
Einstein Students Have Success with The Breast Care Ecuador project
The Breast Care Ecuador project was a huge success. Dr. Lesley Taylor along with medical students Patricia Leun, Allison Tan, Summer Holmes, Yelena Sorokin, Olivia Nelson, Natasha Shapiro, and Sean Ryan saw over 1000 patients and educated the village of Gualaceo, Ecuador. “We performed over a hundred ultrasounds, biopsies, and saw a huge range of benign and malignant breast disease. Many of the women never had a breast exam by a doctor, didn't know how to do a self breast exam, and never had a mammogram."
Recent Global Health Events at Einstein
January 19, 2010: GHC Benefit for Haiti Earthquake Victims
December 7, 2009: Dr. Paul Farmer was guest speaker at the Annual Global Health Day Symposium.
Video of Dr. Farmer's talk: http://www.einstein.yu.edu/home/mu_video.asp?id=395
and Q&A: http://www.einstein.yu.edu/home/mu_video.asp?id=396
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