Notes From Global Health's Mission Team in Ghana
June 29, 2009
The NYIT Center for Global Health team arrived at their home base at the Rohde Foundation site in Oworobong, Kwahu South District of Ghana, after a 36-hour trip, most of it by plane, but several hours by motor vehicle to this mountainous remote village.
The team led by Edward Cho, D.O., Assistant Director for the NYIT Center for Global Health consists of Agana Homchaudhuri, Catherine Kelly, Christine Taormina, Courtney Briggs, Edward Papa, and Joshua Rein, all of whom are second year NYCOM students.
They are in Ghana to spend one month doing a global health fieldwork practicum to satisfy the requirements of NYIT's Certificate in Global Health program, delivering health care and putting theoretical knowledge into practice. The team will conduct research: Evaluation of Mothers, Providing Care Program and its Effectiveness in Reducing Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in Ghana, a project approved by NYIT's IRB.
The team spent Sunday working in a clinic at the local hospital, some few hours from Oworobong, and will open the Rohde Foundation Clinic today. They are all well and excited to begin their mission.
This is the first team of NYIT's Center for Global Health participating in the Certificate program, which hopefully in the future will consist of students and faculty in medicine, health professions, engineering, architecture, business, and education. The rationale for a diverse group of candidates and faculty is to enhance the individuals understanding that the delivery of effective health occurs through a collaboration of multiple fields and to create innovative global health solutions.