Operational Update: Over Past Week, $5 Million in Insulin for Syria, 25-Ton Charter for Nepal Covid Response and More
Direct Relief also provided India with $17 million worth of donated Covid-19 therapies from Eli Lilly, which cleared customs this week and will be used by hospitals treating Covid-19 patients.
A pharmacist with Syria Relief and Development stocks shelves during medical response efforts. Direct Relief supported the group with $5.5 million worth of donated insulin products over the past week. (SRD photo)
Over the past seven days, Direct Relief has delivered 311 shipments of requested medical aid to 44 U.S. states and territories and 14 countries worldwide.
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Gabrielle Plucknette-DeVito Caroline Easton, professor of biomedical sciences, opened a behavioral health clinic on campus last fall. She sees the clinic as a community resource.
RIT’s behavioral health program is expanding in new directions with a clinic on campus and federal funding to deliver addiction treatment in rural communities in upstate New York and New Hampshire.
These partnerships and services create momentum for the Priority Behavioral Health & Clinical Psychology Internship led by Caroline Easton ’90 (biotechnology), professor of biomedical sciences.
The program was funded in 2018 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration to fill a shortage of mental health professionals, especially with addiction expertise, in the Rochester area.