[ARCHIVED] Young Professionals Chronic Disease Network

Jimma university

Ethiopia

University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey

West Bank and Gaza

Islamic University of Gaza

West Bank and Gaza

Islamic University of Gaza

Israel

Islamic University of Gaza

Israel

HEALTH

Israel

Al Azhar University- Gaza

West Bank and Gaza

university

Israel

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

United States

Hospital

India

Aberdeen Women's Centre

Sierra Leone

Nova Southeastern University

United States

NHS Central London Clinical Commisioning Group

United Kingdom

New York University - NYU

Afghanistan; United States

University of Washington School of Medicine

United States

Ärzte ohne grenzen

Germany

STRATFORD UNIVERSITY

United States

I grew up in Switzerland, and graduated with a BSc in Biology and a Masters in Neuroscience from ETH Zurich. I finished my PhD in 2014 in the Department of Health Science and Technology from ETH Zurich. During my PhD Thesis I have worked on public health and nutrition questions investigating micronutrient deficiencies in vulnerable populations in southern Morocco. I joined WHO in 2014 through the Junior Professional Officer program of the UN and have been working in the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health. I've been working with policy and program implementation for more than a year and am currently focusing on interventions for low birthweight babies and effective interventions to improve child development per se. We're currently working on knowledge synthesis to come up with guidelines on how to improve child development. The work that I've been doing with the research and development team of the department has been focusing on coordination of multi-centered randomized controlled trials in India, Pakistan, Zambia, Bangladesh and Kenya. My daily work consists of providing country support with regard to child nutrition and child development.
I'm looking forward to engage actively in this course and with this enthusiastic group of people.

WHO

Cote d'Ivoire; Switzerland

People Centered Internet

Singapore; United States

Hospital

Argentina

UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine

United States

Shyira hospital

Congo, The Democratic Republic of the; Rwanda; Switzerland; United Kingdom

Compañeros en Salud - CES/PIH Mexico; Compañeros en Salud México - (CES)

Mexico

Hospital

Saudi Arabia

EqualHealth

United States

Brown University

Ethiopia; Ghana; Kenya; South Africa; United States

Martha Vega is graduate student at the Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery Program and Paul Farmer Global Surgery Research Associate at Harvard Medical School. Her current research work involves the study of surgical outcomes of mobile surgery in collaboration with the Cinterandes Mobile Surgery Foundation in Ecuador http://www.cinterandes.org/index.php/en/ and the study of access to surgical care in rural Ecuador. She has also collaborated with the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery Health Delivery and Management working group by helping map the location of surgical facilities around the world.

Martha did her undergraduate studies at the University of California, San Diego in Biology as well as Anthropology and Dance minors. She completed her M.D. degree at the Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara / New York Medical College Joint Program. Throughout her medical education, she was actively involved in the health care of disadvantaged communities through mobile health programs and the Christian Medical Society of Guadalajara.

Her aspirations include improving health outcomes and access to surgical care in rural communities around the world. Her particular interest is to work on the implementation of innovative strategies to improve health systems and access to health and surgical services for marginalized people, of particular interest are indigenous communities from the Andes and the Amazon of South America. Dr. Vega was born in Lima-Peru.

Harvard Medical School

United States

muhimbili

Tanzania, United Republic of

Graduate student in biomedical engineering in The Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering at UNC and NC State with a passion for global health.

North Carolina State University; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

United States

La Chaîne de l'Espoir

Cambodia

Zanmi Lasante - Partners In Health

Haiti

DK hospital

Pakistan

n/a

United States

Hospital

United Arab Emirates

Compañeros En Salud - (PIH/CES)

Mexico

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México - UNAM

Mexico

Boston University School of Public Health

United States

Bir Hospital

Nepal

UCSF School of Nursing

United States

HOSPITAL CIVIL

Mexico

Myanmar Medical Association; Pediatrics

Myanmar

Hospital

Pakistan

National Academy of Medical Sciences

Nepal

Institute of Medicine

Nepal

International Organization for Migration; International Organization for Migration - IOM

Nepal

Muhimbili National Hospital

Tanzania, United Republic of

university

Myanmar

Hospital; Postgraduate medical institute/general hospital lahore

Pakistan

WHO

Sierra Leone

I graduated from leading Medical school in Russian Federation in 2001. I saw many barriers and failures of the healing process during education as a student and as a patient and decided to start residentship in “Public health and healthcare management”. After graduation as a Public health specialist I started to work as a coordinator of public health programs in non-communicable diseases in Open Health Institute, which was a succedor of Soros’ Open Society Institute in Russia.
Hopefully, I continued to study. Firstly, I received a grant for 3-weeks course on “Research methods in public health” in Netherlands, later – one year intensive International Master of Public Health program in Jerusalem. International education shoed me just another world of “how to” and “what to”. My thesis about difference in health status of migrants from FSU and “native” Israeli population allowed me to test new skills in epidemiology and critical thinking.
After receiving my MPH I returned to Russia and wanted to apply my skills on 100%. I moved to Siberia as a member of NGO “Partners In Health” and was responsible for all monitoring and evaluation activities of Global Fund grant on Tuberculosis as well as for all adherence activities aimed to decrease default rate from medical treatment. I am proud that we really did it – default rate among enrolled patients with resistant TB decreased to 9-10% and was stable for years.
My directors later found opportunity to expand one of the adherence programs (Sputnik) to other five regions of Russia, and I led this project for two years.
Now I am responsible for all adherence activities in two regions, mostly in cities, but we are expanding our program to the rural settings in 2016.
During 2015 I also graduated from “Business development” one-year professional course in one of the leading Russian institutes (Higher School of Economics). Working on my diploma I learned many new trends in healthcare in USA and Great Britain and was very surprised that many commercials try to do things that I already implemented, and there are so many new. Unfortunately, current development of Russian economic situation, and patients and healthcare staff non-acceptance of new trends do not allow to implement into practice all tools to improve the health of each patient or population in general.

Partners In Health - PIH

Russian Federation