East African planning, design, architecture and engineering team FBW Group has been appointed to masterplan the expansion of the University of Global Health Equity (UGHE) in Rwanda.
The UGHE development in the Burera district of the country will build on the work of the university in producing much-needed, high-quality health professionals.
And it is latest in a series of large-scale education projects FBW, which is celebrating a quarter of a century of operations in East Africa, has been involved in across the region.
The first phase of the 250-acre Butaro campus was opened by the Partners In Health organisation in 2019.
Brianna Ngarambe
Brianna Ngarambe is a graduate of Purdue University and holds a Bachelor of Science in Health Science. During her time at Purdue, she was involved in promoting racial equity through actively recruiting underrepresented minority students to the university and maintaining a strong connection with these individuals as a mentor. While at university, she was Vice President of ACCLAIM, an organization aiming to promote leadership in multicultural and international students. In her role, she hosted panel discussions and prepared events for university staff and students in the College of Health and Human Sciences.
Prior to her current role as Administrative Assistant to the Vice Chancellor at the University of Global Health Equity, Brianna worked as Nurse Assistant and Medical Secretary at Roland Assisted Living in South Bend, Indiana. Through both roles, she cultivated a passion for social justice in the form of equal access to comprehensive, quality healthcare regardless
2021 Geisel Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
15th Annual Geisel MLK Health Equity Celebration Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhumane. - Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Statement of Purpose –
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the inequities that have long existed within health and society. Across the years, many have pointed to the current system and pushed for a more inclusive future. A future that is made more urgent by the current health crisis. As aspiring medical professionals, we the students of the Geisel School of Medicine, would like to ask, where do we go from here? What does healing look like for those most marginalized in healthcare? What can we do so that all of our communities can begin to heal? How can we remain vigilant as the effects of the pandemic continue?
The East African
Friday December 25 2020
Passengers at a bus station in Kigali, Rwanda on March 22, 2020. Covid-19 has forced organisations and governments to timely think and act creatively about interventions that can be tailored to contain the spread of the virus. PHOTO | FILE | AFP
Summary
Frontline health care providers around the world have gone too long unrecognised and uncompensated, and only through a global pandemic have their efforts become widely valued as critical not only to physical and mental wellbeing, but the health of our economies and wider sectors.
Covid-19 has forced organisations, governments, ministries of health and centres of disease surveillance and control to timely think and act creatively about interventions, programmes and projects that can be tailored to contain the spread of the virus and, ultimately, reduce life loss.
PIH in Images: 2020
From homes to hospitals, on rough roads and steep slopes, from capitals to rural communities, these moments in time give a glimpse of how PIHers around the world joined together this year to respond to COVID-19, continue lifesaving services across all of our health care areas, and show that health is a human right
Posted on Dec 23, 2020 Health workers with Socios En Salud, as PIH is known in Peru, work in full PPE to provide vital care and support in Lima.
Photo by William Castro Rodriguez for PIH
In 2020, PIHers around the world joined in a unified fight against an unknown virus, visiting patients at homes, health centers, and hospitals, to provide care and social support as COVID-19 spiraled into a pandemic.