Happy Birthday, Child Family Health International! 2012 marks the 20th anniversary of CFHI' s transformative Global Health Education Programs and Community Empowerment. This milestone gives us a chance to celebrate and to look back on the impact of CFHI.
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On this 30th anniversary, World AIDS Day gives us a time to pause and take in the enormity of this disease that has ravaged so much of humanity. There will be much written today about how we are turning a corner and that the epidemic is showing signs of coming to an end. It is [...]
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Today the editors of USA TODAY added a Special Section to their national newspaper called Sharing in the USA. This is an annual attempt to focus on charitable giving. Included in this section is a list of national charities that have earned the Seal of the Better Business Bureau as an Accredited Charity. Of all [...]
"Global Health Ethics is once again in the forefront of discussion with the recently published Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics chapter emphasizing the relevance of biomedical, clinical and public health ethics within the global medical and academic community. Child Family Health International's (CFHI) Evaleen Jones M.D., Jessica Evert M.D., Scott Loeliger M.D., and Steven Schmidbauer co-authored [...]
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Heads of State vow to “achieve social and health equity.” Students respectfully ask for more specifics. Last week, Heads of State, Ministers, government representatives, and leaders of different sectors met in Rio de Janerio at the WHO World Conference on Social Determinants of Health. (Writing and discussions about social determinants of health can often get [...]
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Today is World Food Day. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has issued a report that should be on the ‘must read’ list of anyone interested in global health. There is some good news but also some disturbing news that should act as a wakeup call for the world community. Staple food prices are [...]
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Voices of empowerment from women in rural Northern India About an hour outside of the north Indian city of Dehradun, the terrain starts to change as you begin to enter the foothills of the Himalayas. Paved streets give way to winding dirt roads, some seemingly carved into the incline of the mountain like the etches [...]
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Dr. Rajagopal Dispenses Needed Medicines and a Healthy Dose of Respect. After a meeting with CFHI’s Founder, Dr. Evaleen Jones at Stanford University, Dr. Rajagopal (Dr. Raj), the Founder of Pallium India agreed to become one of CFHI’s newest partners in India. CFHI India Coordinator, Ms. Hema Pandey, and I had the privilege of [...]
What is Competency Based Education? Competency-based education (known as CBE) has been all the rage in medical education for nearly a decade. Competency in this realm has been described as the “habitual and judicious use of communication, knowledge, technical skills, clinical reasoning, emotions, values, and reflection in daily practice for the benefit of the individual [...]
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We at Child Family Health International (CFHI) are deeply honored to be featured in the Everyday Ambassador blog post by Kate Otto. Kate's own accomplishments in global citizenship and smart diplomacy are considerable for anyone, especially for someone at such an early point in her career. She is a great example for students today who [...]
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Happy World Health Day, April 7, 2011! Each year on the anniversary of the founding of the World Health Organization, we celebrate World Health Day. This year the WHO is using the observance of World Health Day to promote the understanding of a serious issue and to work together to combat it. The issue is [...]
“We are approaching a new highpoint in the prevalence of US residents who were born outside the country.” This is part of a message on the Director’s Blog of the US Census Bureau website that is aimed at the marketing industry, at advertisers of goods and services, but we at CFHI believe it is also [...]
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A Post From CFHI's Medical Director: I’m just returning from conducting a workshop at the NEGEA Regional Conference. NEGEA is the Northeast educator’s chapter of the AAMC - a gathering of the people who oversee medical student and resident education. Just like many in global health medical education, they are grappling with how to get [...]
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CFHI and SNMA have teamed up to present this new and specialized program that offers participants the opportunity to participate in a 2-week global health program in the city of Oaxaca Mexico! The Student National Medical Association (SNMA) is the oldest and largest, student-run organization focused on the needs and concerns of medical students of [...]
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CFHI is happy to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the start of the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. As a member organization of the Building Bridges Coalition and the International Volunteer Programs Association, CFHI joins with other member organizations in issuing the following letter inviting you to sign the Service World Declaration. You can [...]
In October of 2009, fresh from a visit to South Africa, I wrote an entry to this Blog called The Roots in Grassroots –Ukwanda Rural Health Program. I was so impressed with the intentional efforts of the University of Stellenbosch to successfully bring primary health care to Avian Park, an underserved community in the rural [...]
As part of the official visit of President Hu to Washington, First Lady, Michelle Obama spoke to a captivated audience at Howard University saying that when you go abroad, “you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world.” While Mrs. Obama was trying to promote a campaign to increase the [...]
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World AIDS Day gives us a chance as a world community to stop and get some perspective on this epidemic that has been with us now for three decades. In the past this day served as a day for us to remember with dignity those we lost to this horrible disease and as a day [...]
Global Health TV, based in London, recently visited one of CFHI's Community Health Projects in India. The Catch Them Young Program is a health education program directed at youth ages 12-19 in a rural area outside the city of Pune. This is one example of a typical CFHI Community Health Project that originates at the [...]
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Global Health: a Humanitarian Crisis? With this urgent theme, the Canadian Society for International Health (CSIH) is holding its annual conference here in Ottawa. Recognizing the progress and successes in the arena of Global Health, one of the messages of this conference is to not forget the crisis of the billions of people around the [...]