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	<title>Global Health Immersion Programs&#187; Global Health Archives  &#8211; Global Health Immersion</title>
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		<title>CFHI Medical Director Receives Special Award -Final Report From Curenavaca</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 01:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Humility]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Jessica Evert, the Medical Director of Child Family Health International, received the Christopher Krogh Award at the GHEC &#8211; INSP Conference today.
The award, honoring the memory of Dr. Krogh, a founding member of GHEC, who died in 1994 in a plane crash while traveling as a physician for the Indian Heath Service, is given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South-South Collaboration -Second Report From Cuernavaca</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my second report from the Global Health Conference happening in Cuernavaca, Mexico.  The conference is the joint effort of the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC), based in San Francisco, California,  and the Instituto Nacional de Salud Publica (INSP), here in Curenavaca.  I spoke with Lisa DeMaria, Investigadora en Ciencias Medicas of INSP and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South-South Collaboration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 17:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 19th Annual GHEC Conference and the 1st Latin American and Caribbean Conference on Global Helath
Of course, the planning for a conference like this  happens more than a year in advance so as we are gathered comfortably here in Curenavaca, Mexico, having important discussions and sharing of ideas, it is important to look back and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone Pitching in to Help Haiti and Some Old Lessons Re-Learned</title>
		<link>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/cultural-humility/pitchingin-haiti/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Humility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Haiti earthquake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MedShare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[VIDA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is true that Child Family Health International does not have any programs in Haiti.  It is also true that we are part of the world community and, in a situation like this, if there is a way for us to help, we will do all that we can do, as we did in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa &#8211;Local Hospital Takes Courageous Stand Against New Menace</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Experts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical electives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CFHI program site for Healthcare Challenges in South Africa, Global Health Education Program, deals with increasing drug use in the surrounding community.]]></description>
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		<title>New Technology Brings Efficiency and Increases Capacity for Department of Hospital Civil in Oaxaca, Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rotations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CFHI donates computer to Hospital Civil in Oaxaca, Mexico, one of the sites of the Cultural Crossroads in Health Global Health Education Program.]]></description>
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		<title>Learning From South-South Collaboration, April 2010, Cuernavaca, Mexico</title>
		<link>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/ethics/learning-from-south-south-collaboration-april-2010-cuernavaca-mexico/</link>
		<comments>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/ethics/learning-from-south-south-collaboration-april-2010-cuernavaca-mexico/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Experts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain drain]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alliances for Global Health Education: Learning from South-South  Collaboration, has been announced as the theme for an upcoming conference to  be held April 9-11, 2010, in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The joint collaboration  represents the 19th annual conference on Global Health Issues for the Global  Health Education Consortium (GHEC), based in the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFHI Granted Consultative Status at the United Nations</title>
		<link>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/cultural-humility/cfhi-granted-consultative-status-at-the-united-nations/</link>
		<comments>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/cultural-humility/cfhi-granted-consultative-status-at-the-united-nations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Experts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just prior to the opening of the United National General Assembly this year, I was fortunate enough to be at the UN to represent the small but powerful global family of CFHI.  Recently CFHI was granted Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).  This is a great honor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just What Global Health Needs &#8230; Geometry!</title>
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		<comments>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/ethics/just-what-global-health-needs-geometry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 23:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Dr. Calvin Wilson began his plenary presentation at the Sixth Annual Family Medicine Global Health Workshop in Denver earlier this month, he said to the audience of physicians, &#8220;Now class today we&#8217;re going to learn geometry.&#8221;  As he began talking about the vertical approach, and the horizontal approach, Dr Wilson was joking but he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Definition of Global Health</title>
		<link>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/ethics/a-definition-of-global-health/</link>
		<comments>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/ethics/a-definition-of-global-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 08:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health Education]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the lancet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Defining global health has been a challenge. This has been especially true in recent years with the increased interest in science, philanthropy, and politics related to global health. In the June 6, 2009 issue of The Lancet, a multidisciplinary and international panel brought together by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), and led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Equity Should Play a Role in Measuring Global Health</title>
		<link>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/ethics/equity-should-play-a-role-in-measuring-global-health/</link>
		<comments>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/ethics/equity-should-play-a-role-in-measuring-global-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHO Director-General, Margaret Chan, called for greater equity in health to be  considered as part of how we measure progress as a global community.
“Greater equity in the health status of populations, within and between  countries, should be regarded as a key measure of how we, as a civilized  society, are making progress,” [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Experiences and Medcial Education</title>
		<link>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/rotations/international-experiences-and-medcial-education/</link>
		<comments>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/rotations/international-experiences-and-medcial-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 02:17:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Health Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rotations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical electives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clinical rotations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The May-June issue of International Educator, the magazine of the  Association of International Educators (NAFSA), contains an article by Karen  Legget entitled: Teaching Medicine Without Borders.  Ms Legget traces the  movement from &#8220;International Health&#8221; to &#8220;Global Health&#8221; and the impact this is  having on medical education.
She looks at various programs from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CFHI Announces New Effort to Address Brain Drain</title>
		<link>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/cultural-humility/cfhi-announces-new-effort-to-address-brain-drain/</link>
		<comments>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/cultural-humility/cfhi-announces-new-effort-to-address-brain-drain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Humility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Local Experts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brain drain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global health ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health workforce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TrainHealth is an initiative of CFHI that helps to address the health care  worker shortage in the developing world.
CFHI provides opportunities for  health care workers to expand and refine their knowledge, so that they can  better serve their own communities.
Additional training and professional  development opportunities are well documented to help fight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Obama on Global Health</title>
		<link>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/ethics/president-obama-on-global-health/</link>
		<comments>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/ethics/president-obama-on-global-health/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In May 2009,  President Barack Obama issued a statement on global health. &#8220;We cannot  simply confront individual preventable illnesses in isolation,&#8221; the  president said. He continued, &#8220;The world is interconnected, and that demands  an integrated approach to global health.&#8221;
Read more of the President&#8217;s remarks.





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		<title>CFHI Program Spotlight: Sight for All</title>
		<link>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/rotations/cfhi-program-spotlight-sight-for-all/</link>
		<comments>http://globalhealthimmersionprograms.org/rotations/cfhi-program-spotlight-sight-for-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Schmidbauer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Health Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rotations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of CFHI&#8217;s newest programs, Sight for All- Ophthalmology Rotation is unique in that it is based out of just one organization- a local NGO located in New Delhi, India. CFHI participants rotate through the various departments, learning how programs and treatment are implemented to reduce preventable visual handicaps. Participants are exposed to mobile eye [...]]]></description>
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