We have just arrived on the internal medicine ward at St Therese Hospital in Hinche, a regional district hospital in Haiti’s Central Plateau. Despite its position as a district level hospital, the ward has few resources for diagnosis or treatment, and the resources it does have may be available only intermittently. And yet into this environment come patients with severe illness, often at late stages of presentation. (more…)
Alexandra’s interests include Global and Community Health, and she is an advocate of the right to health care for all people. A believer in health education, she has worked to develop community health programs in India and Ecuador, as well as developing interactive e-Learning for the medical and scientific industry in the US. She received an M.A. from San Francisco State University in Integrative Health Education and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis on Neuroscience. She completed residency in Medicine and Pediatrics at Tulane University in New Orleans. (more…)
We collected at SFO, ready for a 10 day trip to Haiti, to join a group from Harvard for a Global Health Bootcamp. Despite some typical airport delays, missed flights, and sprinting through the airport, our fearless program directors navigated our safe and timely arrival in the newly rebuilt airport of Port Au Prince. (more…)