Unite for Sight, a non-profit organization founded by a Yale student that provides eye care to medically underserved people around the globe, will hold its fifth annual International Health Conference on April 12 and 13, at Yale.The conference will bring...
When nurse Denise Walsh arrived at Redemption Hospital in Liberia, Africa, which is now just emerging from years of civil war, the basic systems that help hospitals run smoothly and effectively were nowhere to be found. Most beds were empty - except in...
The Yale School of Public Health is partnering with Tsinghua University in Beijing to provide management and leadership education for 500 underserved women in China working in the healthcare field. The partnership, beginning in 2009, is part of the...
Healthcare is something that everyone around the world needs, but in some parts of the globe, there are few or no resources available to deliver that necessary care. Finding ways to reduce those disparities in healthcare — particularly among women,...
With the help of a 35-foot donated van, Dr. Fred Okuku is about to bring breast cancer screening home to Uganda.Okuku is a third-year resident in internal medicine at Makarere University in Kampala, Uganda. He visited Yale for six months this year because...