Mbarara-MGH Anesthesia Collaboration Update

March 2013 Existing and planned projects The goal of the MGH-MRRH Anesthesia collaboration is to improve outcomes from surgical diseases at Mbarara. Improvements in clinical capacity and quality of care will be achieved via the functioning of an academic department, namely though education and research projects. Since the partnership is academic, improvements should be modeled so as to have broader application to other low-income settings. These initiatives will be communicated via ...

New GBD2010 Study Released

On 12.14.12 The Lancet released a special issue dedicated to the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study, the largest systematic study undertaken to describe the distribution and risk factors for disease burden. The study involved the collaboration of 486 scientists from 302 institutions in 50 countries worldwide. GPAS partners had the privilege to contribute to components of the study.

Priority Planning Conference Call – 11.30.12

  Thanks again to everyone involved with the conference and follow-up call. Please contact us if you would like to join future calls.  

3rd Annual Conference on Collaboration in Uganda

Hamilton, Ontario October 18-21, 2012 Below is an outline of some of the many topics discussed at the recent conference, wonderfully organized by InternationalOutreach.ca and sponsored by St. Joseph's Health System, McMaster University, Boston Scientific and many others. This year the conference was 100% small focus group discussions. Summaries of the topics from these discussions are below as well as the key areas ...

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

Over the next 20 years the disease burden from injury is projected to surpass that of all infectious diseases combined. Founded by RoadPeace in 1993 and endorsed by the UN in 2005, the third Sunday in November has been designated as World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims. Read about events worldwide - WDOR.org

Africa Health Placements: Workforce Retention

According to a WHO report published in 2010 (called “Increasing access to health workers in remote and rural areas through improved retention”): “There is a compelling body of evidence from high-, middle- and low-income countries that a rural background increases the chance of graduates returning to practise in rural communities. Some studies have shown they continue to practise in those areas for at least 10 years.” Our collaboration has adopted some of these strategies for increase surgical ...

Stories of road traffic accident victims/patients in Uganda

Report of MGH-MRRH Collaboration Visit

May 2012 Introduction MGH visitors: Paul Firth (MGH Anesthesia); Lars Hagander (Harvard Global Health Fellow, Pediatric Surgeon); Peter Fagenholz (MGH Trauma Surgeon, ICU attending); Mark Preston (MGH Urologist) The purpose of the visit was to begin implementation of electronic data capture, follow-up on prior projects and explore the expansion of surgical and ICU collaborations and capacity building. The group arrived on Monday 7th, and met with Dr Stephen Ttendo (Anesthesia), Dr Gerald Tumusiime (Surgery), and Drs Joseph Ngozi and ...

Trauma Training Course

A few weeks back we helped run a 3 day trauma course similar to ATLS, same topics, all run by local surgeons who were the topic experts. ATLS books from ACS came in handy. Content somewhat modified, as well as the skills stations, for the local context. Have run similar courses here the last few years.   We all know trauma is the biggest burden, and that ...

USTOP Uganda Trip Report | 3/2012

Attached is the trip report from the Fourth Visit to Mulago by USTOP February 17 - March 3, 2012. Some of the topics addressed on the trip include teaching in orthopedics, nursing, anesthesia, and physiotherapy.