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James Jude Orbinski OC OOnt MSC is a Canadian physician, humanitarian activist, author, and scholar in global health. [1] Dr. Orbinski began his role as principal of Massey College at the University of Toronto in the 2024-2025 academic year, where he is also Full Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, and is cross-appointed to the Munk ...
Senait Fisseha (Amharic: ሰናይት ፍሰሃ) is an Ethiopian-American physician, lawyer and obstetrician-gynecologist.She specialized in endocrinology at the University of Michigan and received her Juris Doctor from Southern Illinois University. [3]
The UK and European Union have a long history of reciprocal healthcare agreements. The UK's National Health Service was one of the first universal healthcare systems established anywhere in the world, influencing British dominions such as Australia, which then formed reciprocal agreements for their citizens to receive treatment. [8]
In September 2015, Partners In Health inaugurated University of Global Health Equity, a non-for-profit organization offering a two-year part-time master's degree in Global Health Delivery. [53] Construction began in September 2016 on the first phase of a campus located in Butaro. [54] The new campus officially opened in January 2019. [55]
As at December 2015, there are 34 institutions of higher education in Rwanda, 11 public and 23 private. [1] In 2013, the government of Rwanda merged all public universities, leading to one public university, University of Rwanda, with six colleges. [2] [3]
Kofi Atta Annan (/ ˈ k oʊ f i ˈ æ n æ n / KOH-fee AN-an, [1] US also /-ˈ ɑː n ɑː n /- AH-nahn; [2] 8 April 1938 – 18 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. [3]
A hospital in Abuja, Nigeria's capital. In Nigeria, there has been a major progress in the improvement of health since 1950.Although lower respiratory infections, neonatal disorders and HIV/AIDS have ranked the topmost causes of deaths in Nigeria, [1] in the case of other diseases such as monkeypox, [2] polio, malaria and tuberculosis, progress has been achieved.
The organisation operates eleven hospitals and health centres in Yemen and provides support to another 18 hospitals or health centres. [97] According to MSF, since October 2015, four of its hospitals and one ambulance have been destroyed by Saudi-led coalition airstrikes. [ 98 ]