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Global Health Track (Family Medicine)
Global Health Track Core Projects
Since 1998, our residents and the Director of the program, Dr. Mori, have visited several countries doing consulting work and clinical rotations. With a strong commitment to addressing health disparities anywhere in the world, our residents experience family medicine as a universal profession relevant in any community or society in the world. Learn more about some of our global health experiences.
| Year | Country | Setting | Sponsoring Organization |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997-1998 | Laos PDR | Surgical care for the war wounded | Health Frontiers/War Victims' Fund, USAID |
| 1998-2000 | Kosovo, Former Yugoslavia | Bedside training for physicians at primary care clinic under civil war in Kosovo | Kinderberg International, e.V./UNHCH |
| 1998-2000 | Yemen | Design and analysis of a health assessment survey in Jibla hospital | Southern Baptist Missionaries |
| 1998-2000 | Ukraine | Family Medicine training | L'viv, Ukraine, USAID |
| 2000-2001 | Prizren, Kosovo | Prizren hospital department of pediatrics bedside round | Kinderberg International, e.V. |
| 2001 | Khon Kaen, Thailand | 1-week intensive refugee medicine training | AAP/Khon Kaen University, Thailand |
| 2000-2013 | Medical Advisory Board | Strategic planning and overseeing all medical projects | Kinderberg International, e.V. |
| 2001-2002 | Honduras | Assessment of participatory management program in reproductive health | JICA/MOH, Honduras |
| 2002 | Peshawar, Pakistan | 1-week intensive refugee medicine training | AAP/PPA |
| 2002 | Peshawar, Pakistan | Technical consultation for nutritional surveillance and primary care training | IMC Pakistan/Ibn Sina |
| 2002-2003 | Afghanistan | Emergency clinic for mothers and children, Kabul and Logar province | Kinderberg International, e.V. (KBI)/MOH Afghanistan |
| 2000 | Damascus, Syria | 1-week intensive refugee medicine training | MOH Syria/AAP |
| 2004-2005 | Afghanistan | Project evaluation for MCH clinic in Kabul and Logar province | MOH Afghanistan/Kinderberg International, e.V. |
| 2005-2008 | Guatemala | Child Health project in Quetzaltenango | JICA/MOH Guatemala |
| 2007-2008 | Nepal | Primary care for disarmed Maoist combatants | GTZ, Germany/Kinderberg International, e.V. |
| 2008 | Vietnam | Provincial Hospital strengthening program | Japanese Bank for International Development (JBID)/JICA |
| 2005-2013 | Afghanistan | Primary care in 3 provinces in northern Afghanistan | KBI/Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Germany |
| 2013 | Tanzania | St. Raphael hospital, Korogwe, Tanga Tanzania and district hospital, public-private partnership (PPP) assessment and training program | Unitarian Church Diocese in Cleveland/Tanga |
| 2012 - Present | Guatemala | Health Education module development and implementation, Panajachel | Mercado Global (MG) |
| 2013 - Present | Thailand | Provincial hospital family medicine strengthening program | Chiang Rai Provincial Hospital |
| 2014 - Present | China | Bedside teaching for inpatient medicine at the 2nd affiliated hospital of Zhejiang University school of medicine | Zhejiang University/CWRU SOM |
| 2015 - Present | Tanzania | Consultant for PPP in Tabora municipal health system and Shinyanga regional health system | Tabora & Shinyanga Provincial governments, Tanzania |
| 2015 - Present | Sudan | Consultant for primary care system/public health, Peace-building in 3 provinces in Darfur, Sudan | JICA |