A Sustained Partnership between a Haitian Children’s Hospital and North American Academic Medical Centers

Global health initiatives from academic medical centers have rapidly proliferated over the last decade. This paper endeavors to describe our 5-year experience as an academic medical collaborative supporting healthcare delivery, medical training, and research at Hôpital Saint Damien-Nos Petits Frères...

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Autores principales: Koster, Michael P., Williams, Jackson H., Gautier, Jacqueline, Alce, Renee, Trappey, Bernard E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017
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Public Health
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5447667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28611976
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00122
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author Koster, Michael P.
Williams, Jackson H.
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description Global health initiatives from academic medical centers have rapidly proliferated over the last decade. This paper endeavors to describe our 5-year experience as an academic medical collaborative supporting healthcare delivery, medical training, and research at Hôpital Saint Damien-Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs, the only freestanding children’s hospital in Haiti. Descriptions of the history and current activities of our academic medical collaborative, its partnership and communication structure, its evolution to fill the expressed needs of our host site, its funding mechanisms, and its challenges and opportunities for the future are included.
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spelling pubmed-54476672017-06-13 A Sustained Partnership between a Haitian Children’s Hospital and North American Academic Medical Centers Koster, Michael P. Williams, Jackson H. Gautier, Jacqueline Alce, Renee Trappey, Bernard E. Front Public Health Public Health Global health initiatives from academic medical centers have rapidly proliferated over the last decade. This paper endeavors to describe our 5-year experience as an academic medical collaborative supporting healthcare delivery, medical training, and research at Hôpital Saint Damien-Nos Petits Frères et Soeurs, the only freestanding children’s hospital in Haiti. Descriptions of the history and current activities of our academic medical collaborative, its partnership and communication structure, its evolution to fill the expressed needs of our host site, its funding mechanisms, and its challenges and opportunities for the future are included. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5447667/ /pubmed/28611976 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2017.00122 Text en Copyright © 2017 Koster, Williams, Gautier, Alce and Trappey. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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