Africa
Ethiopia
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| Program Name/Location |
Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
| Mother Teresa's Mission |
Thomas Alexander |
2007 |
Evaluation |
Ghana
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| Program Name/Location |
Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
| Baptist Medical Centre |
David Goodman |
2007 |
Evaluation | Presentation |
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Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
| University Hospital, University of Ghana, Legon |
Efua Erbynn |
2008 |
Evaluation |
Kenya
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| Program Name/Location |
Description: |
| Carolina for Kibera |
Established in 2001, Carolina for Kibera (CFK) is an international, nongovernmental organization based in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya. In the United States, CFK is a 501(c)(3) charitable corporation and major affiliated entity and program of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill based at the Center for Global Initiatives.
Named a TIME Magazine and Gates Foundation “Hero of Global Health,” Carolina For Kibera (CFK) fights abject poverty and helps prevent violence through community-based development in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya and beyond. CFK envisions a world where the poor have a voice in their futures and opportunities for healthy growth.
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| Program Name/Location |
Description: |
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Tenwek Hospital
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We provide compassionate, affordable health care to the people in the surrounding area and offer specialty referral services for many of the surrounding provinces and countries. We offer training for medical students, interns, nursing students, dental technicians, laboratory technicians, pharmaceutical technicians, and chaplains, and also provide advanced training for doctors in family practice and surgery. |
| Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
Tiffany Chin
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2011 |
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Malawi
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| Program Name/Location |
Description: |
UNC Project Malawi - MS1 Research
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Identify innovative, culturally acceptable, and relatively inexpensive methods of reducing the risk of HIV/STI and infectious disease transmission through research; strengthen the local research capacity through training and technology transfers; and improve patient care. |
| Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
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Trevor Royce
Jiayin Xue
Timica Campbell, Rebekah Macfie
Oren Mechanic,
Akiniyi Ragwar
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2009
2010
2011
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Presentation
Presentation
Presentation
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| Program Name/Location |
Description: |
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Project Malawi - MS4 electives
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Several fourth year students every year have the opportunity to complete electives at various UNC Project Malawi sites
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| Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
Amy Bryant, Emily Roemer,
Elizabeth Rabold, Carolyn Dicus
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2011
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| Program Name/Location |
Description: |
Project Malawi - Medical Horizons Fellowship
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Each spring, one outstanding MS1 student and one Carolina Covenant scholar will be selected as UNC Medical Horizons Fellows. Both students will spend a month in Malawi observing and participating in various projects/procedures designed to improve patient care for the people of Malawi. All activities will be organized and supervised by UNC Department of Surgery Faculty in collaboration with the NC Jaycee Burn Center. |
| Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
Eli Tate
|
2011 |
Evaluation | Presentation |
| Program Name/Location |
Description: |
Project Malawi
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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation – International Clinical Research Fellowships in Africa. UNC/Chapel Hill is one of six US medical schools offering a Doris Duke International Clinical Research Fellowship for medical students with an international placement site. |
| Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
Bryce Haac
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2011-2012 |
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Nigeria
Program Name/Location Description: ECWA Evangel ECWA Evangel Hospital is a 150-bed general hospital located in Jos, Nigeria. Founded by the Sudan Interior Mission (now SIM) in 1959, Evangel is now under the auspices of the Evangelical Churches of West Africa (ECWA). Student Year Documents/Presentations Aye Otubu 2008 Evaluation
South Africa
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| Program Name/Location |
Description: |
| Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu Natal as part of the NIH / Fogarty International Center Clinical Research Scholars program |
The Fogarty International Clinical Research Scholars Support Center at Vanderbilt University is offering a one-year clinical research training experience for graduate-level U.S. students in the health professions. This is an opportunity for highly motivated individuals to experience mentored research training at top-ranked NIH-funded research centers in developing countries. Africa, Asia, and the Americas are regions of the world that, if accepted, you may find yourself experiencing. |
| Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
| Nancy Hancock |
2007-2008 |
Evaluation |
Sierra Leone
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| Program Name/Location |
Description: |
| University of Sierra Leone, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences |
Research and health screenings in urban areas of Freetown
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| Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
Mariatu Cole
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2011 |
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Tanzania
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| Program Name/Location |
Description: |
International Health
Partners - Tanzania |
International Health Partners is a non-governmental non-profit organization formed to facilitate partnerships from all over the world with Tanzania to improve health care. |
| Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
| Gabriel Cade, Brandon Mitchell |
2007 |
Project Summary |
| Matt Luzum |
2008 |
Evaluation |
| Kristin Alves, Shane Tussey |
2009 |
Presentation |
Brittany White, Daniel McMillan
Jade Jones, Amit Gupta
Sarah Kim, Courtney Grant Natalie May, Sylvia Exum |
2010 |
Presentation | Evaluations | Blog |
| Amee Patel, Dan Magliozzi, Michael Cowherd, Yibing Li, Adrienne Yancey, Amarpreet Kaur |
2011 |
Presentation | Evaluations |
| Program Name/Location |
Description: |
University of Arusha
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Research project on the factors to seek emergency care in low-income countries
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| Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
Michael Kelso
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2011 |
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Togo
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| Program Name/Location |
Description: |
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Affiliated with Duke Gloabl Health, Hope Through Health, and other NGOs
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Opportunity to work in four different Togo cities in a variety of health care settings and on an independent project |
| Student |
Year |
Documents/Presentations |
| Whitney McLeod |
2010 |
Presentation |
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