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Experience
Current Projects
- 1999 Charles Drew University - JHPIEGO Collaborative Reproductive Health Project
Project Description: The International Health Institute in collaboration with JHPIEGO is training 9 Spanish bilingual physicians and nurse-midwives/nurse practitioners as master trainers in international reproductive health. As part of their training experiences, these trained master trainers will travel to Bolivia, Guatemala, Peru, Jamaica, Honduras, Ecuador, and Brazil to train health care providers, i.e. train the trainers, in international reproductive health techniques.
- 1999 HIV/AIDS Prevention in Angola
Eric G. Bing, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, Principal Investigator
Project Description: To conduct HIV prevention research in Angola that will serve as a basis for instituting programs that will result in decreased mortality from HIV/AIDS.
- 2001 Disaster Preparedness Project for the state of Gujarat, India
S. Balasubramaniam, M.D., Dept. of Surgery, Project Director
Project Description: A collaborative project between Charles Drew University, the Government of India, and the State of California Emergency Services. The purpose of the project is to develop, establish, and implement a Master Disaster Management Plan for the state of Gujarat, India. This plan will be based on the current California F.E.M.A. model and adapted to fit India's disaster response plan. The Master Disaster Management Plan will be documented for purposes of replicating this model in other countries.
The Master Disaster Management Plan will be implemented in 3 phases: Phase 1: This phase will take place in Gujarat, India with the principal stakeholders and result in an agreement of the initial blue print of the disaster preparedness plan. Phase 2: This phase will occur in California and with the Gujarat response team observing the FEMA response plan. Phase 3: This phase will result in the implementation of the Disaster Preparedness Plan in Gujarat, India.
- 2001 Cervical cancer education, screening and treatment in rural Guatemala
Theresa Loya, M.D., M.P.H., Assistant Professor Dept. of Pathology, Principal Investigator.
Project: Dr. Loya has been working to improve the health care in San Marcos Guatemala for the past 30 years. Dr. Loya has received a grant from the Bill Gates Allaince to implement a program will result in a pilot project involving cervical cancer education, screening, and on-site treatment. This project will take place in a rural farming community in Guatemala using partnering strategies with a local community health clinic and a U.S. university based cervical cancer detection and treatment team.
The Charles Drew University has also provided technical assistance in the following countries
- 1987 - 1992 Cameroon Maternal and Child Health Consortium
Program Description: Responsible for design and implementation of a nutrition training program along with a drug supply and management operation. From 1991-92, assisted the Cameroon government in identifying the prevalence of visual impairment in the northern and southern provinces through a population-based survey that included clinical intervention.
- 1986 - 1991 Swaziland Primary Care Health Project
Program Description: Three adult students from Swaziland were placed in the Center for Preventive and Community Medicine for short-term training in health education design strategies as a component for this project. Also conducted were training workshops on health management.
- 1983 Drew African Physicians' Assistant Project (DAPA)
Program Description: 11 refugees from Uganda and Ethiopia trained at Charles Drew University as Physicians Assistants. Based on its historic and successful MEDEX program, Drew University designed a special program focusing on a primary care curriculum with a preceptorships.
Collaborative Projects
- 1990 with technical assistance from U.S.A.I.D/Costa Rica
Program Description: Developed the Project Identification Document System. This system outlined a technical assistance program for improving the cost-effectiveness and management capabilities of Costa Rica's Social Security Institute.
- 1984 - 1994 Health Planning and Information Systems Project, Kenya
Program Description: As a collaborative research project between the Universities of Nairobi, Johns Hopkins and U.C. California/San Francisco provided assistance to Ministry of Health in developing staff capability for program planning and implementation at national and district levels with emphasis on strengthening rural health services. 1984 -1989, provided technical assistance in the development of Kenya's Integrated Rural Health and Family Planning Project. In addition12 Kenyans enrolled in the
Masters in Public Health programs at U. S. Universities in order to strengthen the capabilities of the Ministries of Health, Finance and Planning. Five of the Kenyan administrators also studied at the Charles Drew University in the program entitled "Health Planning and Management"
- 1985 - 1987 Charles Drew University with Johns Hopkins University and the University of Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.
Program Description: A three-person consultant team performed a mid-project evaluation of the management performance of the Health Development Planning and Management (HDPM) project.
Other accomplishments:
Sponsored a series of conferences on Social and Behavioral Sciences and Mental Health in the following countries:
- Italy, 1981
- Somalia, 1979
- Trinidad & Tobago, 1978
- Virgin Islands, 1976
1989 Cameroon, Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, provided direct services and technical assistance in maternal & child health and vision care projects.
Note: Taught courses on the "Management of Glaucoma and Blindness Prevention utilizing laser techniques" in Singapore, China, Cameroon, Israel, St. Lucia, Barbados, Saudi Arabia.
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