Status: Implementation
Goals: This project will train a faculty member to serve as a microbiology instructor at the UEH Faculty of Medicine, which will involve 6 month work at UCSD School of Medicine under the auspices of the Infectious Disease Division. Training will cover lab management, lab-based instruction, reseach methods, and clinical instruction.
Inquiries: Please contact Dr Sanjay Mehta (UCSD) and Dean Gladys Prosper (UEH FMP).
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Status: Implementation
Goals: Starting with a pilot with intention of maintaining year after year, a young physician from UCSF will complete 7 months of fieldwork at a Partners in Health (PIH) site in Haiti. This will allow PIH to strengthen clinical care, establish hospital medicine as a specialty area, and in the future, allow for educational opportunities for Haitian and American residents and medical students. This project will be the model for other medical specialities and sub-specialties to come. For more information, please visit the Fellowship Page.
Inquiries: Contact Dr Phuoc Le (UCSF) and Dr Sriram Shamasunder (UCSF).
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Status: Implementation
Goals: This project aims to improve the quality of emergency care at the Hospital of the State University of Haiti (HUEH) by providing training through an Emergency Medicine Center of Excellence (EMCD). The program’s implementation will be based on a collaborative approach between all stakeholders, including MSPP, NGOs and HUEH management and staff. The project will achieve these goals through five components focused on supporting HUEH:
1. Component 1: Develop an Emergency Medical Care Working Group (EMCWG) for HUEH and Haiti nationally
2. Component 2: Establish an Emergency Medicine Center of Excellence (EMCE)
3. Component 3: Improve emergency response to disaster events
4. Component 4: Strengthen Health Information Systems (HIS) for injury surveillance and emergency medicine
5. Component 5: Provide training courses on international emergency medical standards (train 100 nurses and 50 physicians)
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Status: Implementation
Goals: Develop an oral history training course at the State University of Haiti (UEH). A 1 week intensive course was held in August by Professors Robin Derby, Watson Denis, Teresa Barnett, and Andrew Apter taught the first cohort oral historical methodology, life narrative and interviewing, and kinship mapping of households to determine impact of the earthquake on families in 4 communities. A digital archive has been created and will house materials at UCLA. Further funding will be acquired to provide UEH students with research grants to buid upon archive and colloquia on various themes. A strong academic partnership in oral history has been established.
Inquiries: Contact Professor Robin (Lauren) Derby (UCLA History), Professor Watson Denis (UEH FASCH, FE, ENS, IERAH), Professor Teresa Barnett (UCLA Center for Oral Historical Research), Professor Andrew Apter (UCLA History).
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Status: Concept Design/Funding
Goals:
1. Reconstruct the Plant Pathology Lab: Replacement of damaged equipment is needed to revitalize the lab for education, research, and extension services.
2. Develop a Seed Testing Lab: It would be the first in the nation and will invigorate the agriculture sector. Functions include: sampling and testing for purity, germination, water content, sanitary status. Besides infrastructural development, train the trainer will be the second component enabling the staff to conduct research, serve as extension for the government, and integrate with the curriculum.
Davis will have the unique opportunity to incorporate these labs into its International Agriculture Development educational programs.
Inquiries: Please contact Professor Steven Temple (UC Davis) or Vice-Dean Nicola Carvil (UEH FAMV).
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Poster: Download
Peer-Review Paper: Soon
Goals: The problem of inaccessible medication and the harm and burden incurred by high volume sale of counterfeit drugs must be addressed. This project will conduct qualitative research into pricing and availability of essential medications to impact OPS policy on stockpiling and the Ministry of Public Health’s efforts to implement an essential medications list.
Inquiries: Contact Vice-Dean Dodley Severe (UEH FMP), Dr Lisa Bero (UCSF Pharmacy) or Harinder Chahal (UCSF Pharmacy)
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This project will install equipment at UEH's seven satellite faculties and the main downtown Port-au-Prince campus in order to connect the campus internally. It will allow UEH to offer distance learning to improve efficiency and save UEH costs while allowing the next three to seven years of classes in the provinces to receive quality instruction where they are currently receiving none. This system also provides the opportunity for needed vocational job training as well as linkage to international partners, such as the University of California.
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Goals: Emergency and essential surgical care (EESC) delivers life-saving, disability-averting emergency, obstetrical and surgical care that should be available at the first-referral facilities. This project uses a WHO-developed Situation Analysis toolkit to establish quantitatively the evidence base for capacity of EESC the way it is currently provided, mapping out capacity of 51 health facilities nationally. The intended impact of the research: 1) Provide information that will allow providers to better coordinate care, 2) MSPP to begin the process of developing a policy on EESC, 3) augment WHO's global database for its advocacy efforts, and 4) put in a place an efficient system to routinely measure improvements in EESC capacity-building.
Inquiries: Contact Medical Director Dr Jacques Pierre Pierre (HUEH), Dr Richard Gosselin (UC Berkeley/UCSF), Dr Mackenson Saint-Fort (HUEH), Tu Tran (UCHI)
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This project will establish for the first time an inter-university debate competition within UEH and its peer institutions, Universite Notre Dame d’Haiti and Universite Quisqueya. University students will engage in policy-focused debate, learn communication skills, and focus on issues around core sectors of Haitian redevelopment. This project will also generate project ideas for sustainable development endeavors.
Inquiries: Please contact Ms. Herline Desiral or Mr. William Smelko.
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