A Sustained Partnership between a Haitian Children’s Hospital and North American Academic Medical Centers
Global health initiatives from academic medical centers have rapidly proliferated over the last decade. This paper endeavors to describe our 5-year experience as an academic medical collaborative supporting healthcare delivery, medical training, and research at Hôpital Saint Damien-Nos Petits Frères...
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| author | Michael P. Koster Jackson H. Williams Jacqueline Gautier Renee Alce Bernard E. Trappey |
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| description | Global health initiatives from academic medical centers have rapidly proliferated over the last decade. This paper endeavors to describe our 5-year experience as an academic medical collaborative supporting healthcare delivery, medical training, and research at Hôpital Saint Damien-Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs, the only freestanding children’s hospital in Haiti. Descriptions of the history and current activities of our academic medical collaborative, its partnership and communication structure, its evolution to fill the expressed needs of our host site, its funding mechanisms, and its challenges and opportunities for the future are included. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6e712a81f40c4fbe8d2c49d45b3cd6022022-12-21T17:56:47ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652017-05-01510.3389/fpubh.2017.00122251938A Sustained Partnership between a Haitian Children’s Hospital and North American Academic Medical CentersMichael P. Koster0Jackson H. Williams1Jacqueline Gautier2Renee Alce3Bernard E. Trappey4Department of Pediatrics, Brown University Alpert Medical School, Providence, RI, United StatesDepartment of Pediatrics, East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine, Johnson City, TN, United StatesPediatrics, Hôpital Saint Damien-Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs, Tabarre, HaitiPediatrics, Hôpital Saint Damien-Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs, Tabarre, HaitiDepartment of Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, United StatesGlobal health initiatives from academic medical centers have rapidly proliferated over the last decade. This paper endeavors to describe our 5-year experience as an academic medical collaborative supporting healthcare delivery, medical training, and research at Hôpital Saint Damien-Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs, the only freestanding children’s hospital in Haiti. Descriptions of the history and current activities of our academic medical collaborative, its partnership and communication structure, its evolution to fill the expressed needs of our host site, its funding mechanisms, and its challenges and opportunities for the future are included.http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00122/fullglobal healthcollaborativeHaitipediatricsacademic medical centermedical education |
| spellingShingle | Michael P. Koster Jackson H. Williams Jacqueline Gautier Renee Alce Bernard E. Trappey A Sustained Partnership between a Haitian Children’s Hospital and North American Academic Medical Centers Frontiers in Public Health global health collaborative Haiti pediatrics academic medical center medical education |
| title | A Sustained Partnership between a Haitian Children’s Hospital and North American Academic Medical Centers |
| title_full | A Sustained Partnership between a Haitian Children’s Hospital and North American Academic Medical Centers |
| title_fullStr | A Sustained Partnership between a Haitian Children’s Hospital and North American Academic Medical Centers |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Sustained Partnership between a Haitian Children’s Hospital and North American Academic Medical Centers |
| title_short | A Sustained Partnership between a Haitian Children’s Hospital and North American Academic Medical Centers |
| title_sort | sustained partnership between a haitian children s hospital and north american academic medical centers |
| topic | global health collaborative Haiti pediatrics academic medical center medical education |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00122/full |
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