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Rebecca Weintraub, MD

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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
    Website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/ Type: Medical Institution Country: United States About: 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.
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital, Division of Global Health Equity
    Website: http://www.brighamandwomens.org/socialmedicine/ Type: Medical Institution Country: United States About: 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.
  • Global Health Delivery Project
    Website: http://globalhealthdelivery.org/ Type: Non-Governmental Organization Country: United States About: The Global Health Delivery (GHD) Project is working to systematize the study of health care delivery, to disseminate new learning to practitioners, and improve health care delivery in resource-limited settings.
  • Harvard Medical School
    Website: http://hms.harvard.edu/hms/home.asp Type: Academic Institution Country: United States About: 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.

Language(s)

  • English

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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.

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