Emory medical student realizes scary realities regarding healthcare in Haiti

By Woon Cho Kim
BATILLE, ,CASSE DISTRICT, Haiti—Three whole days of rural outreach clinics and couple of hundreds of patients later, my mind is absolutely overwhelmed with too many thoughts, reflections, and emotions. Coming to Haiti as a young medical student in training may just be one of the best decisions I have made in my [...]

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Emory students gain perspective of the medical resources and needs in Haiti’s Central Plateau

By Constance Harrell
HINCHE, Haiti—Meeting the Hinche commune’s minister of health was both inspiring and revealing of how much of the international medical work connects with the local health workers. Kathleen, Jen, and Matt, three Gyn/Oncology doctors from MD Anderson who have been running our OB/Gyn clinics on this trip, are starting a new [...]

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Emory medical student finds global health demands patience and persistence

By Sameer Kapadia
CASSE, Haiti—First day of clinic and I started off in pediatric triage. It was wild. I have never felt as much anxiety taking a blood pressure reading as I did taking the first one of the day.
Let me set the scene: it was really hot, me, another med student, and about [...]

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UN food chief commits to 24-hour hunger strike to draw attention to the 1 billion chronically malnourished

By Jennifer Browning
Because Rome’s U.N. Food and Agriculture offices are unheated at night, U.N. Food Chief Jacques Diouf bundled up with a hat, scarf and overcoat over his pajamas and spent the night on a makeshift mattress in an effort to draw attention to the 1 billion chronically malnourished people before next week’s U.N. food [...]

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Don’t forget to RSVP for REBUILD HAITI:MISSION POSSIBLE

By Jennifer Browning
Don’t miss out on hearing Edwidge Danticat read at the REBUILD HAITI: MISSION POSSIBLE event. Today is the final day to RSVP.
The fundraiser will feature Haitian-American writer and 2009 recipient of the MacArthur “Genius Award,” Edwidge Danticat. Danticat is known for her contemporary work of Haitian heritage writing in English from her award-winning [...]

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Multi-task your giving: Raise money for Project Medishare and holiday shop at the same time

By Jennifer Browning
Double your giving spirit this holiday season by doing your shopping online with online partners like GoodShop, iGive, and Donation Street. Instead of bracing yourself for a season of jam-packed parking lots and crowded stores find that perfect something for that perfect someone, and raise money for Project Medishare at the same time. [...]

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Check out Dr. Barth Green during today’s Center for Strategic and International Studies panel discussion

By Jennifer Browning
If you missed the panel discussion “Meeting the Challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti: A Progress Report from the Poorest Country in the Americas.” You can see it in the embedded video above or by going directly to the CSIS site here.

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Watch Dr. Barth Green today in a panel discussion about Millennium Development Goals in Haiti

By Jennifer Browning
Dr. Barth Green, Project Medishare’s co-founder, will be joining UN’s Deputy Special Envoy to Haiti, Dr. Paul Farmer and Haiti’s Ambassador to the United States, Raymond Joseph during the panel discussion “Meeting the challenge of the Millennium Development Goals in Haiti: A progress report from the poorest country in the Americas.”
The panel [...]

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