Texas Children's Global Health Foundations in Global Health
Foundations in Global Health is open to the Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine community who are interested in learning more about global health. The formal curriculum was developed to address contextual knowledge on major causes of global child and maternal mortality and program development best practices in the field of global health. There are nine lectures per year and each lecture is coordinated by an expert moderator from the field.
Lecture Highlights
Foundations in Global Health (FIGH)
Presenters: Heather Haq, MD, MHSc, Gordon E. Schutze, MD, FAAP, Neel Naik, MD, Stephanie Marton, MD, MPH, Jill Sanders, MD, MPH, FAAP, and Mackenzie DuPont, MD, MPH
Past Videos
Presenters: Victor Mosweu, MSc; Neo Judith Lemme, BTech; Ihonga Kuhepa, BTech; Nestor Uzcategui Araujo, PhD
Presenters: Anna Maria Mandalakas, MD, MSEpi, PhD; Nokwanda Kota, MBChB, MS; Nompumelelo Mzizi, MSPH; Sandile Ndabezitha, MS
Presenters: Rachel W. Davis, MD; Youmna Ashraf Sherif, MD; Nadia Rahman, MPH
Presenters: Ana María Galvis-Fundación Baylor Colombia; Michael Ferm, M.D.
Presenters: Diane Nguyen, PharmD; Heather Haq, MD, MHS; Roland Semakula, MBChB; Nmazuo W. Ozuah, MD; Nick Ettinger, MD, PhD; Susan Torrey, MD - Baylor College of Medicine/ Texas Children’s Hospital
Presenters: Dr. Yoselin Fontalvo, Fundación Baylor Colombia, Rachel Macleod, Maternal Health - Malawi
Presenters: Dr. Anna Mandalakas, Mrs. Tara Devezin Moore, Dr. Clement Gascua Adu-Gyamfi, Dr. Arthur Johnson, Dr. Nokwanda Kota INSIGHT Fogarty Scholars, Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital Access INSIGHT Program Information
Presenter: Dr. Monika Patil Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital
Presenters: Drs. Karla Fredricks, Eric Russell and Padma Swamy Baylor College of Medicine
BIPAI/TCH Global Health Response to COVID-19 Presenter:
Heather Haq, MD, MHS Chief Medical Officer, BIPAI
Delivering Healthcare
Presenter: Jennifer Werdenberg, MD, MPH Pediatric Hospitalist Rice 360 Sr. Global RMNCH Clinical/Technical Advisor
Women’s Health in Malawi
Presenters: Drs. Jeff Wilkinson, Ibe Iwuh, Chikondi Chiweza, and Ennet Banda Texas Children’s Hospital Global Women’s Health
Global Pediatric Surgery
Presenters: Drs. Jed Nuchtern and Bip Nandi Texas Children’s Hospital Global Surgery
US Global Health Trainees: Dos and Don’ts
Presenters: Drs. Heather Haq, Stephanie Marton, and Marideth Rus Assistant Professors, Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine
Quality Improvement in Resource Constrained Settings
Presenters: (1) Drs. Heather Crouse, Binita Patel, Joyee Vachani, and (2) Bryan Vonasek
(1) Baylor College of Medicine
(2) University of Washington School of Medicine and Public Health
Partnership programs for the establishment of sustainable pediatric cardiac programs
Presenter: Dr. Patricia Bastero Medical Director, Simulation, Texas Children’s Hospital
Care of Acutely Ill Patients in Belize
Presenter: Dr. Joy Mackey Director, Global Health and International Emergency Medicine Fellowship, Baylor College of Medicine