Prenatal care on the road in Haiti

By Tisha Titus, MD, MPH
After several hours of rapid fire pregnant women in search of their first, and potentially only, prenatal visit, there is one patient for this day that stands out in my mind. I will wonder what has happened to her for months and maybe even years after returning home. I would like [...]

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Check out Morehouse Medical School’s medical trip photos on Flickr!

By Jennifer Browning
Morehouse Medical School students and doctors worked this past week in Haiti with Project Medishare’s medical staff. The group helped Project Medishare conduct mobile clinics in Baille Touribe, Savant Plate, Marmont, and Savanne Perdu where each day they saw between 180-250 patients.
Click here to check out photos from their trip!

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Efforts in care and prevention keep HIV patients from being left behind

By Leo Moore
SAVANNE PERDU, Haiti—As a third year medical student at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), my interests lie primarily in combining clinical practice and public health research in the fight against HIV/AIDS. HIV is currently a major killer in the African-American population in America as well as among the Haitian people. Although [...]

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A little hope in a brown paper bag

By William Moore
MARMONT, Haiti—As a Masters in Public Health (MPH) student at Morehouse School of Medicine with a focus on health education and health promotion, it was important to me to gain experience with educational preventive behavior in a developing world.
Today I only had one opportunity for sex education. One of the very first patients, [...]

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Learning on the job in Haiti

MPH student William Moore helps with triage in Marmont. Photo by Jennifer Browning.

By Jennifer Browning
MARMONT, Haiti—William Moore wasn’t sure what he needed to know during his volunteer trip in Haiti.
“It didn’t kick in till yesterday the importance and the requirements one needs to do a Medishare trip,” Moore said.
Working toward his Masters in Public Health [...]

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Breaking the language barrier for public health

By Ayanna Robinson
MARMONT, Haiti–As an Masters of Public Health (MPH) student, community health advocacy is an area that I pursue with passion. We are trained to be culturally competent with educational materials that are culturally sensitive. Even still, reaching your audience, especially with health education information is not an easy task. It becomes a [...]

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Remembering a little girl in the pink dress

By Dione Occenad
SAVANT PLATE, Haiti—After our first exciting day of clinic, we were ready to get back on the road!  We traveled about 45 minutes to a village called Savant Plate.  We arrived at a small school where many people were anxiously waiting and getting registered by local health workers.  We divided into our separate [...]

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A large crowd greets Morehouse in Baille Touribe for the first day of mobile clinics

By Allison Tucker
BAILLE TOURIBE, Haiti–After many months of preparation, we have arrived in Haiti. As Morehouse School of Medicine’s second student-organized trip with Project Medishare, we arrived in Thomonde from Port-Au-Prince after several hours in the car. We are full of energy and great enthusiasm. After the success of our first trip, there [...]

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