Rebecca Weintraub, MD
About Rebecca Weintraub, MD
Rebecca Weintraub, M.D., is the Executive Director of the Global Health Delivery Project. Rebecca is an Associate Physician in the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities, a member of the Hospitalist Service at Brigham and Women's Hospital, and an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Co-founder of Jumpstart, the largest part-time AmeriCorps program in the nation, she currently serves as a technical advisor to Ashoka, promoting the work of Health Entrepreneurs. Rebecca graduated from Yale University, Stanford Medical School and completed her medical training at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Role(s) / Profession(s)
- Physician
Organization
- Brigham And Women's Hospital - BWH
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity
- Global Health Delivery Project
- Harvard Medical School
Work Location(s)
- United States
Rebecca's Communities
Language(s)
- English
Recent Contributions
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Rebecca Weintraub, MD started a discussion "MSF TB Day videos “I want a TB test that works for me!”" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
Related to this initiative, it is interesting to note that MSF Access to Essential Medicines produced and published a series of videos focused on TB diagnostic tool for World TB Day. The campaign explains that “the most commonly used diagnostic tool - the microscopy test patients' sputum - has remained substantially the same since it was developed well over a century ago.” The videos tell the stories of Charity, Bharat, Rolandi and other patients describing ...
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Rebecca Weintraub, MD replied to "Community Health Workers in Rwanda" in the Adherence & Retention community.
Hi Karen, Thanks for your question about Community Health Workers (CHW) in Rwanda. Here’s a partial response but hopefully other members of the community who are currently in Rwanda will pitch in and provide insights on their experience in the field. CHW in Rwanda are called Animateurs de santé. As we explained in our GHD case study: HIV Care in Rwanda (not available online for now but check our blog for brief summaries: http://globalhealthdelivery.org/blog/?p=243), the ...
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Rebecca Weintraub, MD replied to "External Quality Assessment of Tuberculosis Laboratories" in the MDR-TB Treatment & Prevention community.
Quality Assurance, particularly for cultures, remains a critical challenge for TB laboratories in resource limited settings. I do not have on-the-ground experience in this arena but several colleagues suggested a few reference documents, links, and articles – see list below. Our team has also invited members of the Supra-National Reference Laboratories to join the discussion, and I hope that members of the community will share their implementation guidelines and experience. I would guess that answers ...
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Rebecca Weintraub, MD started a discussion "Defining LTFU" in the Adherence & Retention community.
Hi all, A recent paper in AIDS Clinical Care (Ndiaye B et al. Characteristics of and outcomes in HIV-infected patients who return to care after loss to follow-up ) showed that LTFU worsens outcomes for HIV patients even if they return to care, with mortality risk 5x higher than patients never lost to care. LTFU was defined as "not showing up for care for at least 1 year" - the study was done in France. ...
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Rebecca Weintraub, MD started a discussion "Surgical practices" in the TB Infection Control community.
Speaking with a colleague at Indus Hospital in Pakistan, she asked if community members have protocols to share regarding how to manage TB IC in high volume surgical suites. Many thanks for your input.
Recent Recommendations
- None at this time.