Global Health Partner Sites | Academic Year 2024-2025

Below is a list of the Selected GHP Sites for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.  Additional information will be provided at the GHP Introduction Sessions which will provide an opportunity for interested students to learn more about these sites from UMass Chan faculty and students.

 Kenya

• • Advisor: Dr. Ann Moorman (Infectious Disease & Immunology)
    • Sites: 1. Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) in Kisumu or 2. Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH)- Public referral hospital, Kisumu
    • Projects: KEMRI - research -- anti-malarial immunity to naturally acquired infections in children; endemic Burkitt lymphoma; JOOTRH - other field and hospital-based projects, clinical shadowing
    • https://www.kemri.org/ and http://www.jaramogireferral.go.ke/
    • Language: English

India

• • Advisors: Dr. Nisha Fahey (Pediatrics) and Dr. Apurv Soni (Medicine)
    • Site: Charutar Arogya Mandal (CAM), Karamsad, Gujarat
    • Projects: prevalence of atrial fibrillation in villages of CAM, storytelling
  • Advisor: Dr. Anindita Deb (Neurology)/Dr. Soaham Desai (Neurology, CAM)
    • Site: Charutar Arogya Mandal (CAM), Karamsad, Gujarat
    • Projects: shadowing in neurology clinic at CAM, clinic-based research project, screening for parkinsonism
  • Advisor: Dr. Apeksha Tripathi (Family Medicine)
    • Site: GSMC/KEM Hospital in Mumbai, India
    • Project: A 4 week summer immersion experience at GSMC/KEM Hospital in Mumbai, that will include shadowing in various disciplines and opportunity to create your own project.  

• • https://www.umassmed.edu/oume/international-medical-education/gh-opportunities2/SATHI/
  • Language: Gujarati/Hindi preferred (not required, medical staff speaks English)

Dominican Republic

• • Advisor: Dr. Douglas Golenbock (Infectious Disease)
    • Sites: Instituto Dominicano de Estudios Virológics (IDEV- Domincan Institute of Virological Studies) – NGO in- and out-patient clinics, Santo Domingo
    • Projects: viral diseases, HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases
    • Language: Spanish preferred

Bolivia

• • Advisor: Dr. Douglas Golenbock (Infectious Disease)
    • El Instituto para el Desarrollo Humano (IDH) – nonprofit clinic
    • https://www.idhbolivia.org/index.php/nosotros/sobre-el-idh
    • and https://www.umassmed.edu/oume/international-medical-education/gh-opportunities2/umms-idh-partnership/
    • Projects: public health research, shadowing opportunities
    • Language: Spanish (required)
  • Advisor: Dr. Richard Moser (Neurosurgery)
    • Solidarity Bridge – NGO
    • Projects: public health research, shadowing opportunities
    • Surgical subspecialties, cardiology, pediatrics
    • Language: Spanish (required)

Malawi

• • Advisor: Dr. Brian Lisse (Family Medicine & Community Health)
    • Site: Kasungu District in Northern Malawi
    • Project: Work with Dr. Lisse’s NGO, Bridges to Malawi, on a community development project and shadowing in local clinics in Malawy
    • Bridges to Malawi – Our Bridge to Improve the Lives of Rural Malawi Families
  • Advisor: Dr. Don Hangen (Orthopedics)
    • Site: Blantyre in Southern Malawi
    • Project: Under mentorship of Dr. Hangen, students will assess and contribute to capacity building in the surgical program in Blantyre, Malawi.  

Vietnam 

• • Advisor: Dr. Hoa Nguyen & Dr. Rajani Sadasivam (PQHS)
    • Site: Northern Vietnam - urban and rural locations
    • Project: Vietnam based work on HIV patients who smoke and looking at smoking cessation through text messaging intervention.

Sites within the USA where GHP students have done Global Health Immersion Experiences

• Worcester Refugee Assistance Program (WRAP). Worcester, MA
  • Hannah Duehren. Global Health is Local Health: Expanding Student Opportunities in Worcester and Abroad. Poster Presentation, 2017.
• African Community Education (ACE).  Worcester, MA
  • Gisele Njinda. Poster Presentation, 2014.
• Phallacies Inc. and the Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence (ATASK).  Boston, MA
  • Yevin Roh. Poster Presentation, 2015.

Contact Us

• If you have questions, please contact IMEP-GHP at this email address:  IMEP-GHP@umassmed.edu
• The IMEP-GHP Team is the UMass Chan faculty & staff that implement the International Medication Education Program (IMEP) and the Global Health Pathway (GHP)

Updated OCT 7 2024 | cjb