Global Health News and Events

A world beyond Grey's Anatomy: Reflections from Ashley Hall students Tackling HIV and diabetes in Tanzania. Battling Ebola on the front lines of West Africa. Fighting global tobacco. These aren’t the typical topics most high school students learn about in their ninth grade biology class. But Allison Sill Bowden isn’t your typical teacher at Ashley Hall. “Our class is currently studying about bacterial and viral infections, but I was eager to expose my students to some of the most pressing health	MUSC Global Health Symposium November 3-4, 2015 Tuesday, November 3 Location: MUSC Drug Discovery Building Auditorium DD110 8:00 am Registration and Coffee 8:30 am Welcome Mark Sothmann PhD, Provost and Vice-President of Academic Affairs, MUSC John Vena, PhD, Chair, Public Health Sciences, MUSC Michael Sweat, PhD, Director, Center for Global Health, MUSC
MUSC Advocate Takes on Sickle Cell Disease The developed world has a surplus of knowledge, expertise and technological innovation at its disposal. Just in the past year the world did not know it would have an Ebola vaccine with a 100 percent efficacy rate or a disease detecting pill created	An Inside View of Medical Mission in Honduras By Shakira Lynn On May 16, 2015, I began my journey back to Olancho, Honduras on my third mission trip with Mercer on Mission. As the nurse practitioner with this group my primary role is to assist with the assessment and treatment of patients; however, I also work with students to help guide the flow of clinic and patient care. This year our group consisted of nursing, pharmacy, medical,
Student Reflection from the Field: Elizabeth Bernard It is difficult to begin to describe how truly wonderful my trip to Uganda was. As I sit to write this reflection, I am still in amazement that I was able to have this experience, see the sites and patients that I saw, and meet so many magnificent people. It provided more educational and personal growth than I could have ever imagined. I met so many remarkable people along the way, including the clinic team that I	Reflections from Thomonde, Haiti: Melissa Hite By Melissa Hite Joining Service Learners International (SLI) as a first year in medical school was not an easy decision, as there were many enticing opportunities for that “last summer of life”; however, I valued its foundation as a student-led organization that allowed a deeper level of involvement in the trip planning and also allowed continuity in a global project for the duration of medical school. My
MUSC nurse exposes family to mission work in Mombasa, Kenya By Matthew Husband Residents of the developed world rarely think about the lower levels of basic need found in Maslow’s Hierarchy. At its nadir, the hierarchy explains a requirement for things like water, food and shelter—physiological maintenance factors - that come easy in higher-income countries. Travel to East Africa, however, and you will see the daily energy expense of meeting these most basic of needs.	New Haiti orthopedic surgery residency rotation and education exchange provides bi-directional training opportunities You do not need to look beyond the western hemisphere for stories of national resilience in the developing world. Rudolph Richeme, MD provided an appropriately timed overview of the state of healthcare in Haiti and the unwavering resilience of its people during a lecture as part of a residency rotation and exchange program directed by the South Carolina Orthopedic
Global Health Clinical Elective in Tanzania Block 8 (January 28-February 22, 2019) RFA Scholarship and Placement Limited to Two (2) Fourth-Year Medical Students Application Deadline: June 12, 2018 at 5 pm EST Earliest Anticipated Award Date: July 20, 2018 The MUSC	College of Medicine Global Health Elective in Tanzania Course Description This course is a four-week clinical elective in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and designed for fourth-year medical students with a genuine interest in global health and in caring for underserved populations. This

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