real change in HEALTH and MEDICINE.
approaching old problems
We build long-term, collaborative partnerships with innovative, local teams around the world. We currently support work in the United States and five countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and South America.
Clinica de Familia
The Clinica de Familia in La Romana, Dominican Republic, is the primary organizing partner for the Institute’s effort to develop local research capacity in the Eastern Dominican Republic. The project works with local partners, including the Eastern Region Health Department, the Universidad Central del Este, and local hospitals and providers to form a community ethics committee and to support health research that benefits the community.
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Our work with Cayetano is three-fold: 1. Partnering to support local community ethics committees in the Caribbean and Latin and South America. Community ethics committees are important for review and monitoring of research on human subjects in their communities and for building local research capacity. 2. Partnering to support research-based, best-practice childhood nutrition programs for under-resourced communities in Lima. 3. Collaborating on the integrated community, climate, and health data tool (see Vine Trust, below).
UTMB Center for Global Health Education
The Center is a pivotal partner in all of the Institute’s global work, contributing both theoretical and real-world, tested expertise and sharing their deep knowledge of local partners and strategies. In addition, the Institute supports Center research projects and medical students.
Vine Trust
The Institute supports the work of the Vine Trust, an international medical volunteering charity, by helping them make connections with medical partners such as Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical Branch, and by partnering with them on research projects. A current collaboration integrates community, climatologic, and health data into a single electronic tool for tracking, predicting, and analyzing health data in resource-constrained environments. Partners on this project include NASA’s Earthdata Ecocast team, University of Texas Medical Branch, and the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia.
INDEICOL
In the Dominican Republic, the Institute has joined the Instituto de Investigacion Colaborativa, which is a collaboration of researchers and institutions working to increase research capacity in the eastern region of the Dominican Republic. Members of the organization, a nonprofit platform for all partners to work together as equals, include researchers, physicians, epidemiologists, and administrators who share the goal of helping the region develop a robust research infrastructure.