MY CURRENT EMPLOYMENT In June 2016, I was awarded the Global health corps fellowship. Global health corps is a U.S. non-profit organization that offers a competitive fellowship to support emerging global health leaders. The fellowship begins with two-week leadership training at Yale University followed by quarterly retreats throughout the year. During the fellowship, fellows work with high-impact health organizations in yearlong paid positions. Fellows are selected from East Africa, Southern Africa, and the United States. For each Global Health Corps site, one local fellow and one international fellow are matched, to promote cross-cultural awareness and understanding. I am placed at Rwanda Zambia HIV Research Group and my fellowship will end in July 2017. Below is the description of my employment: 1) The employer is Rwanda Zambia HIV Research group; which is a nonprofit organization whose activities focus on ending HIV and …show more content…
I report to the top level manager i.e. the Head of Medical department. 4) I am currently working on two projects. In the first one I am in charge of coordinating the project that involves working in partnership with community pharmacies located in Kigali/Rwanda. Those pharmacies refer STIs clients to my organization. When clients are received, they are tested for both Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV and those who are found to be positive they are provided with counseling and treatment. -The achievements with this project is that based on my idea my organization is accredited to provide Continuing Professional Development trainings to pharmacist by the Rwanda National Council. -Another achievement is that Outreach to pharmacists has improved pharmacy referral of Sexually Transmitted Infections’ patients to my
In general, staff moves up the organization based on experience, seniority, education level and relevancy of skills. Employees are expected to support one another and follow the “Respectful Workplace Policies”. As for interaction with patients, since the new Chief Executive Officer was appointed, the organization has focused heavily on being patient-centred. Patients’ feedback is valued. They are encouraged to participate in the Patient Voices Network to share their experience and give feedback to site
I consider my care staff to be my patient care coordinators, treatment coordinators, and assistants. Doctor’s and Hygienists also need to be meet with to understand their philosophy and what I can do as a Manager to make there day run as smooth as possible. As a leader the staff needs to understand my philosophy, their expectations of other and what I would expect of them short and long term. Further 1:1 meetings in the following 30 days would be set up to further address after observation is completed.
...out sanitation, infrastructure, and hygiene can greatly reduce global health disparities worldwide. In addition, research is another fundamental necessary in ensuring human health quality for individuals. I admire the researchers who commit in finding answers to fight against chronic diseases occurring worldwide. I have significantly respect the researchers who work together in discovering new diseases and treatments affecting individuals globally and not only fulfilling one country’s needs. It is my desire to become one of those researchers in the next ten years contributing in global health and decreasing global health inequalities in order to provide health care equality for every human being living in the world. We need to work together, globally, and collaborate in order to end health inequalities and the pursuit of human equality in the sake of social justice.
“To those people in the huts and villages across the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required,” (Kennedy 2), John F. Kennedy told an inspired crowd and an ambitious nation during his inaugural address on January 20, 1961. The origins for his plan to establish a program to assist developing countries originated about 4 months earlier during an early morning speech at the University of Michigan, where, at 2 a.m., he challenged the students to “contribute part of [there] life to this country”(Kennedy 1). His speech received a thunderous response and within weeks a petition in support of the idea had been gathered with over a thousand signatures. The Peace Corps was officially established by Executive Order 10924 on March 1, 1961. The Peace Corps proved to be a program consisting of devoted individuals serving their countries to fight against poverty and aiding the men, women and children fighting to survive in their impoverished living conditions. John F. Kennedy was motivated to establish the Peace Corps to assist the people in less developed countries, provide disaster relief, and to develop relations with other countries.
Doctors Without Borders work in war zones, places where natural disasters have occurred, where populations have displaced or where hunger and epidemics have increased. Specifically, they work in 80 countries worldwide, in Europe, Africa, and in America (particularly in South America). They choose these places because that is where their help is particularly needed, so their action is not biased in any kind of way. The MSF is prompt to answer to any emergency around the world – it takes about 48 hours or less to reach the country in which they are needed (the trip will depend on the distance and the weather), and the medical machineries will get to the country in about 72 hours. Astutely, every MSF is provided with a pre-packed disaster kit,
How will you contribute to the mission of the National Health Service Corps in providing care to underserved communities?
Founded in 1984 by Dr. Robert Simon, International Medical Corps is a global, non-secular, not for profit, humanitarian organization based out of Santa Monica, California. A signatory of the Code of Conduct of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, IMC operates according to the principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality and operational independence. In accordance with the principle of humanity, IMC has pledged to address human suffering wherever it may be found, to protect the life, health and respect of humans beings; neutrality means that the organization does not take side or take part in political, racial, religious or ideological conflict. The concept of impartiality guides the International Medical Corps to distribute aid on the basis of need alone, prioritizing the most urgent cases with a disregard for nationality, race, gender, religious belief, class or political viewpoint. Their operational independence allows the IMC to work completely independently from the political, economic, military or any other object that donors may have, making the IMC a dunantist organization. The mission of the International Medical Corp “is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in underserved communities worldwide.” IMC operates with the intention of rehabilitating “devastated health care systems [to help] bring them back to self-reliance.”
I believe Tanzania needs to scrap the Western health system in its entirety, and to inundate its populace with information. Tanzania is struggling to fight a Health Care Worker shortage because it ascribes to a Western healthcare system model that has never been proven to work in the African context. The Western healthcare model works on a hierarchical pyramid that requires an infinitum of personnel and technologies to maintain coordination and efficiency, the personnel and technology required to create an national system of real-time health information transfer and transactions is costly even for western nations and usually lack the cultural medical holistic approach African cases need. Although western doctors are seen as more caring than African doctors they are both in a dispassionate system that values numbers over the individual. African patients require a more holistic approach that values treatment success over numbers, doctors have to be trained to be sensitive to cultural norms and community interventions and view their patients with more of a community health outlook than western doctors.
The program united my interest in healthcare and public health coupled with cultivating leadership and management skills. I have gained a broad exposure to the core public health disciplines, a macro-level understanding of the health care system, and honed my professional skills in direct application towards healthcare delivery. Ultimately, I aspire to practice at an urban hospital, and to have a leadership role where I can leverage my experiences and perspective to influence hospital initiatives to help underserved
When you think of a good citizen what do you think of? Naturally we think of someone who is active in their community, and takes responsibility for their actions. So what is a good citizen on a global level? What is Global Citizenship? Well, opendemocracy.net states that,
Access to health care in Ethiopia has left many people without proper health care and eventual death. Millions of people living in Ethiopia die because of the lack of access to the health care system; improving the access to the healthcare system in Ethiopia can prevent many of the deaths that occur, but doing so will pose a grueling and challenging task. According to Chaya (2012), poor health coverage is of particular concern in rural Ethiopia, where access to any type of modern health institution is limited at best (p. 1). If citizen of Ethiopia had more accessibility of the healthcare system more individuals could be taught how to practice safe health practices. In Ethiopia where HIV, and maternal and infant mortality rates are sky high, more education on the importance of using the healthcare system and makin...
As a Social Studies and premedical student, I aspire to lead an international health and development non-governmental organization (NGO). Combining my skills as a physician and practitioner of development, I plan to enhance the health of marginalized, persecuted, and exiled populations. Through direct interaction with government bodies and humanitarian NGOs, I hope to highlight and curb the medical and psychological burdens stemming from human rights violations. Building on my skills as a humanitarian law and refugee tracing instructor, I also wish to train international and indigenous relief personnel to ensure the sanitary, nutritional, and health standards of uprooted populations. Aspiring to bring holistic leadership to the health and humanitarian sector, I must thoroughly understand and know to confront the social, political, and cultural factors linked with poor health. I therefore propose to pursue and academically focussed MPhil in Development Studies preferably from Oxford University or from the Univers...
There are many ways to help improve your health today. Many diseases today could be prevented if we were to take a few precautions in things like changing our daily lifestyle. These lifestyle precautions include changes to your diet and amount of exercise you get everyday. Reports have shown that this could greatly lower you chances of disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that 90-95% of most cancers cases is preventable.
Han - Since early childhood, I developed an insatiable appetite to ameliorate problems and the mantra of “I dream, I build; I think, I do”, quite a sophisticated thinking from a juvenile. An anecdote of this is a long-forgotten memory involving a barbie doll and my kindergarten crush. Circa 2000 around the playground, Emma suddenly started crying frantically. As recalled by her, “We were so short back then, and my barbie doll drop into a something that resembles a barrel and all I could do was just crying”. Seizing the opportunity to impress her and flex my problem-solving muscle, I had a light-bulb moment.
This report is based on the major and specific global health problems in the world. Global health refers to the health of all people in the world which concerns about the health issues that go beyond the borders of each country due to the globalization ( Dyar & Costa, 2013). As well as health issues are referred to the health problems created due to this globalization.