Global Health News and Events

MUSC scientist finds adventure in mentoring, scientific discovery From tracking crocodiles near barrier reefs in Belize to evading Hippos in Africa, Louis Guillette, PhD, has had exciting, adrenaline filled experiences most only dream of. However, nothing excites Guillette more than sharing his discoveries and leading the next generation of researchers to defining their cause.	MUSC pediatrics resident advocates for frontline service providers The shortage of primary care physicians in the sixties begot a novel program for mid-level healthcare professionals: physician assistants (PA).
Reflections from Baan Namkem, Thailand: Victoria Way My time spent serving as part of a medical team on a mission trip to Thailand was invaluable. Though I have spent time traveling and serving medically in the past, I had never done anything to this scale.	Featured Scholarly Journal: Michael Cummings, PhD, MPH The Economics of Tobacco Control (Part 2): Evidence from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Policy Evaluation Project
MUSC professor placed on Fulbright Specialist roster Congress recently announced its 21^st Century Cures initiative to accelerate the pace of cures and medical breakthroughs in the US. The goal is to promote an environment through which innovation is fostered among unlikely partners in government, academe and industry. It is now beginning to take hold.	MUSC occupational therapy student: Avoid assumptions about patient background Social determinants of health, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, as well as the health system. These determinants give rise to spread of disease in poor communities with large unmet health needs and large gaps in health and socioeconomic indicators across borders.
MUSC Center for Global Health announces 2015 Faculty Pilot Grant awardees Four Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) faculty members, representing diverse disciplines, received Center for Global Health Faculty Pilot Grants of up to $20,000 for a 12-month period. These grants were offered through a competitive scoring process comparable to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientific peer review.	Special MUSC Lecture - Surgeon Challenges in the Low Resource Environment: Working Through Systems and Quality in Africa Ssebuufu Robinson, MD, FCS Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. Drug Discovery Building, Room 110
Project OKURASE combats education, public health issues through new programs in Ghana Project Okurase is changing the way both healthcare and education are utilized in rural Ghana, West Africa. Cynthia Swenson, PhD, professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), co-directs Project OKURASE, a non-profit organization that addresses devastating effects of poverty, illness and a lack of clean water, infrastructure, medical care and education in a village of roughly 3,500 residents.	MUSC team reflects on Emory University Global Health case competition By Rahoul Ahuja

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