GHDonline Partners

Founding Collaborators
Partners
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Founding Collaborators

Physician leaders and faculty from leading global health organizations - many with decades of experience as hands-on pioneers in delivering care in resource-limited settings - have joined forces as founding collaborators of GHDonline, the Global Health Delivery communities of practice.

Brigham and Women's Hospital

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) is a 747-bed nonprofit teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School and a founding member of Partners HealthCare System, an integrated health care delivery network. BWH is committed to excellence in patient care with expertise in virtually every specialty of medicine and surgery. Through investigation and discovery conducted at its Biomedical Research Institute (BRI), BWH is an international leader in basic, clinical and translational research on human diseases, involving more than 800 physician-investigators and renowned biomedical scientists and faculty.

The Division of Global Health Equity (DGHE) is dedicated to addressing health disparities through training, education, research and service. The Division focuses on infectious diseases (e.g., HIV and tuberculosis) as well as non-infectious diseases (e.g., coronary artery disease and diabetes) and other health problems of major importance across the globe. Through the hospital’s Doris and Howard Hiatt Residency in Global Health Equity, internal medicine residents in training divide their time between BWH and Partners In Health project sites. This model is now being replicated at other medical schools and teaching hospitals across the country.

For more information, please visit the DGHE website.

The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health

The François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard School of Public Health is the first academic center to focus exclusively on health and human rights. The Center combines the academic strengths of research and teaching with a strong commitment to service and policy development. Faculty work at international and national levels through collaboration and partnerships with health and human rights practitioners, governmental and nongovernmental organizations, academic institutions, and international agencies to expand knowledge, develop domestic and international policy, and build a health and human rights movement.

For more information, please visit the Center's website.

Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School’s (HMS) mission is to create and nurture a diverse community of the best people committed to leadership in alleviating human suffering caused by disease. Students and more than 7,500 full-time faculty in 11 academic departments located on the School's Boston campus, in one of 47 hospital-based clinical departments at 18 Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals and research institutes, or at 30 research centers, divisions, and institutes, advance the School’s mission every day.

Within HMS, the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (DGHSM) works in close collaboration with the GHD project teams, from participating in GHDonline communities to developing the GHD academic platform.

DGHSM is an interdisciplinary basic science department focused on both teaching and conducting research about the social, cultural and moral aspects of illness and health care, with a special emphasis on reducing health disparities and improving the quality of medical care. Central to the mission of the Department is an effort to address significant global health problems affecting resource-poor societies and underserved American communities. Members of the Department develop innovative interventions for dealing with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, mental illnesses, and drug abuse in resource poor settings.

For more information, please visit the HMS website and the DGHSM website.

Partners In Health

Partners In Health, co-founded by physicians Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, serves millions of poor patients in nine countries, providing them with extensive health care and social services that address the root causes of poor health. By successfully proving that providing comprehensive, community-based medical care for complex diseases such as AIDS and tuberculosis is not just possible but essential, the organization has helped bring about significant changes in global health policies and practices.

For more information, please visit the PIH website.

Partners

Some of the best health care delivery organizations in the world are teaming up with GHDonline founding collaborators to improve the dissemination of best practices, resources and tools, and connect implementers with the people they need to improve health outcomes via GHDonline communities.

Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia

Focused on turning the tide in the battle against HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases in Africa, doctors, researchers and health care practitioners at the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia (CIDRZ) have been bringing both short and long term solutions in the field since 2001. Clinical Care is given to patients, using the highest quality services and practices; Research is conducted using international standards, but always informed by local practice; Training is ongoing, increasing the level of knowledge and understanding of both African and expatriate doctors, as well as researchers and health workers.

Internationally acknowledged as a leader in HIV/AIDS treatment and research, maternal-child health care and studies, and cervical cancer, malaria and tuberculosis practice, CIDRZ has remained rooted in local community health care while becoming a world-renown resource for infectious disease understanding and breakthroughs.

CIDRZ's team was among the first to initiate and join the Patient Adherence & Retention community.

For more information, please visit the CIDRZ website.

Commission Nationale de Lutte Contre le SIDA, Rwanda

The National AIDS Control Commission (CNLS) was established by the Government of Rwanda Cabinet on 24 November 2000. It was created by a Presidential decree in 2001. The Commission operates under the Office of the President of the Republic of Rwanda and is charged with:

• Assisting the Government in determining and implementing the national Aids control policy.
• Serving as coordinator for national strategies and for the preparation of action plans for institutions involved in AIDS control activities.
• Raising awareness in the population on AIDS prevention and education activities and steps.
• Mobilizing funds for AIDS control both nationally and internationally.
• Continued sensitization of authorities in the country to support the national policy on AIDS control.

For more information, please visit the CNLS website.

Supporters

Support for GHDonline is also provided by The Leon Lowenstein Foundation, The Schooner Foundation, and private donors.

Organizations interested in partnering with GHDonline should send an email to: partners@ghdonline.org.