Ashti Doobay-Persaud, MD is Faculty Director for the Masters of Science in Global Health and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. She has been a GHDonline Faculty Network member for five years, and has taught GHD's Cases in Global Health Delivery for three.
Migrants and internally displaced people are at high risk for tuberculosis infection and disease. Join GHDonline January 16–20 for an Expert Panel examining ways to prevent, diagnose, and treat TB among migrants and internally displaced people.
Every day, almost 500 women die during pregnancy or childbirth in humanitarian settings. Additionally, nearly sixty percent of preventable maternal deaths take place in regions affected by conflict, displacement, or natural disaster.
For people with terminal illness in rural Guatemala, God and religion are ever present. God is a principal actor in their lives: God provides money and jobs; God provides food; God heals illnesses, either through doctors or in spite of them; God guides one down her path in life and knows the obstacles ahead; God carefully chooses the hour of her death.
Join us for an Expert Panel to explore the impact of language barriers on access to health services, quality of care, and patient outcomes for patients who do not speak the local language.
It’s easy to become numbed by the global diabetes epidemic.
Almost every week, it seems, new numbers are released telling us the situation is bad and only getting worse: 415 million people have diabetes around the world—80% living in low- and-middle income countries—according to the International Diabetes Federation; others respond that these official figures may severely underestimate the diabetes burden; and earlier this year ...
I vividly remember the beginning of my trip to Madagascar to perform reproductive health research. At the end of providing an update to my mentor on my experiences from my first week in Madagascar, he responds, “If arranging (reproductive health) classes for both boys and girls is too difficult, just focus on the girls.” As I hang up the phone, I feel the frown develop on my face. His words did not sit right to me; reproductive health affects BOTH sexes. I tell myself then and there that I will find a way to include both adolescent women and men in my research...
The Lancet Commission on Global Surgery published a report on the state of global surgery in April 2015 reporting the staggering statistic that “5 billion people in the world lack access to safe, affordable surgical and anesthesia care when needed” [1]. I vividly remember working at a busy public hospital in Arusha, Tanzania where this reality was dismally clear. On the labor and delivery ward, we hoped that every patient would have an uncomplicated vaginal delivery because our options if a woman needed a cesarean section for obstructed labor or a D&C for a postpartum hemorrhage were...
Access to health care for undocumented immigrants is, whether you are for it or against it, a popular news topic. However, in parallel with this, and largely unnoticed, is the challenge health care providers face, either treating or navigating care for this population in the clinical environment.
