News and Stories
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In Mexico, PIH Team Fights Misinformation Around COVID-19 Vaccines
Even as COVID-19 surged in Chiapas in July, many vaccination centers were empty, due to misinformation about the vaccines—a reality that Compañeros En Salud is determined to change.
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Delivering Care, Support As COVID-19 Surges In Mexico
As the third wave of COVID-19 sweeps across Mexico, cases are on the rise—and the patients filling Chiapas' hospitals are younger.
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Emergency Medicine Graduate Among First Responders to Haiti Earthquake
Immediately after the 7.2-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, Dr. Dyemy Dumerjuste and his colleagues quickly assessed the situation from Port-au-Prince. And shortly after, he was on a helicopter, as part of the first team to evacuate survivors from the Nippes department, a devastated region in the South near the epicenter of the Aug. 14 earthquake.
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In Sierra Leone, Shining a Light on Pediatric Mental Health
In May, clinicians at the PIH-supported Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital opened the facility’s, and the country’s, first child and adolescent mental health unit and are already improving families' lives.
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Chicagoland Vaccine Partnership Brings Vital Health Services, and Trust, to Neighborhoods
The Chicagoland Vaccine Partnership brings together community-based organizations, public health experts, government officials, and philanthropists to focus on closing stark health equity gaps that have become more apparent during the pandemic.
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How a ‘Little’ Modeling Tool Made a Big Difference Building a COVID-19 Response Workforce
Dr. John Welch faced a hiring challenge. It was April 2020, and the director of Partners In Health’s COVID-19 response in Massachusetts was on a tight deadline to determine how many people would be needed to launch an ambitious, statewide contact tracing workforce to help bring the newly raging pandemic under control.
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'Women Need To Be Represented': UGHE Graduate Reflects On Her Passion For Health Access, Gender Equity
UGHE graduate Gloria Rukomeza reflects on her academic journey and her commitment to advocating for women in global health leadership.
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Emergency Care Key to Earthquake Response in Haiti
PIH's director of emergency and critical care discusses clinicians’ primary concerns following an earthquake, how they rapidly respond, and why such tragedies also can have a lasting impact on the lives of those not immediately injured.
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PIH Response Team: “People are Suffering,” Health Centers “Completely Collapsed” in Haiti
PIH teams traveling through affected areas this week said the damage is staggering after the Aug. 14 earthquake, with thousands in need of food, water, and shelter
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Earthquake Patients Airlifted to PIH's University Hospital
At least 30 people injured in Saturday's disaster have been brought to the world-class facility in Mirebalais, built in response to Haiti's earthquake in 2010.