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Dr. Rotimi Nettey in Malawi.
Momentum

Bridging gaps in maternal health

May 19, 2025 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology,  Global Health,  Malawi,  obstetric fistula,  Scott Department of Urology

Learn more about the Global Health Network and their efforts to treat women in Malawi living with obstetric fistulas.

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Policywise

Bringing global learnings to our community

February 24, 2023 China,  Emergency Medicine,  Global Affairs,  Global Health,  injury prevention,  medical student,  The Schwarzman Scholarship

Each year the Schwarzman Scholarship, hailed as “the Rhodes Scholarship of the 21st Century,” selects 150 scholars for a fully-funded Masters of Arts in Global

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Policywise

Reboot your thinking about mental health, the future of our health and health security

April 1, 2022 Amy McGuire,  Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Genetics,  Global Health,  Human Geno Sequencing Center,  Mental Health,  public health,  Richard Gibbs,  Sharmila Anandasabapathy,  TEDx

How willing are you to reboot the way you have always done things? Our society is currently experiencing a reboot – challenging basic assumptions about

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Humility, flexibility, and resilience: applying global health experience locally

February 25, 2022 COVID-19,  Domestic,  Global Health,  International,  Pandemic,  Physician,  Resources

The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly affected health institutions, plunging well-resourced health systems into an unfamiliar state of relative resource limitations. The U.S. leads the world in

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Momentum

Global HOPE provides infrastructure for improving pediatric cancer care in Africa

September 30, 2020 Cancer,  Global Health,  Healthcare,  Molly Chiu,  Pediatric Cancer,  pediatrics

Baylor College of Medicine and the Texas Children’s Global HOPE Program are working to improve Burkitt lymphoma outcomes in Malawi and Uganda.

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The Stitch

Creating a path in global surgery

February 11, 2020 Debbie Sugarbaker,  Education,  Global Health,  Medical Education,  Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery,  Surgery

When Dr. Rachel Davis started her general surgery residency at Baylor College of Medicine, she knew she wanted work in the field of global surgery

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Momentum

World Neglected Tropical Diseases Day: Fighting conditions of poverty

January 30, 2020 Global Health,  Healthcare,  Infectious diseases,  National School of Tropical Medicine,  Tropical medicine

Today, the World Health Organization designates 20 parasitic and related infections as neglected tropical diseases. They represent the world’s most common health afflictions of people

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Momentum

Learning to tackle global health challenges

August 21, 2017 Alex Kramer,  Baylor Global Health,  Emergency Smart Pod,  Global Health

This summer, I’ve had the wonderful experience of working with Baylor Global Initiatives as their project intern. Most of my experience with global health has

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Momentum

Open hearts, healthcare challenges and hope in Cuba

July 25, 2017 Baylor Global Health,  Global Health,  Student Life

I recently spent a week visiting the Frank País Orthopaedic Hospital in Havana, Cuba. The visit allowed a glimpse into the inner workings of the

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Hacking solutions for global health challenges

July 18, 2017 Baylor Global Health,  Global Health,  Global Health Hackathon

From a diabetes management app to oxygen in a backpack, hackers from diverse backgrounds joined together at the 2017 Global Health Hackathon to create solutions

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Blood vessels (magenta) intertwined with metastatic medulloblastoma tumor cells (green) nestled within the protective layers that surround the mouse spinal cord. From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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