Ifrah Ahmed ‘23 and Hannah Adams ‘23, TDI graduates, were the first MPH students funded by the Center for Global Health Equity to participate in a Co-designed Community-based (CCI) internship abroad. Under the leadership and guidance of Geisel faculty member and Dartmouth alum Dr. Rebecca Laird MED’01, TDI’21, a Board-certified internist and cardiologist, Ifrah and Hannah completed a CCI internship in Kigali, Rwanda, in March 2023.
Amal Cheema MED’24, recent graduate of Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine, reflects on the six weeks she spent completing a global health elective in January-February 2024 at Rwanda’s main teaching hospital Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali (CHUK).
For the past two years, fellows from the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hematology-Oncology Fellowship Program have been engaged in a global oncology fellowship elective in Rwanda.
Steve Bensen, an associate professor of medicine, had long wanted to get involved in global health work. He recently got his chance when he spent two months helping to train physicians and residents at two hospitals in Rwanda.
Dr. Jean-Luc Nkurikiyimfura explains how the Human Resources for Health program is helping to rebuild the country’s health-care system with the help of Geisel and other U.S. medical schools.
For the past two years, Dr. Jean-Luc Nkurikiyimfura has been collaborating with faculty at the Geisel School of Medicine despite working and living thousands of miles away. Nkurikiyimfura, who heads the HIV clinic at Kigali University Teaching Hospital in Rwanda’s capital, is part of the Rwandan Human Resources for Health (HRH) program.
Lars Blackmore reflects on the time his family has spent in Rwanda and the successes of the HRH program.
During his six week stay in Rwanda, Dr. Bruce Friedman brought decades of experience as a physician and educator in cardiology to an audience with a very different background from that of his students at Geisel and DHMC.
Dr. Nick Perencevich (Dartmouth ’69) was the first American surgeon on the ground in Rwanda when the Human Resources for Health program got underway this past summer. He has been a trailblazer here and reflects on his time there as he prepares to leave.
![Dr. Dorey Glenn, MD, uses a tablet to show some of the medical students and residents at King Faisal Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda how bilitool.com can help quickly assess the health of a jaundiced newborn under their care.]](https://geiselmed.dartmouth.edu/cghe/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/12/glenn_bilirubin-feature-650x320.jpg)
Instituting major changes at King Faisel Hospital in Kigali, Rwanda can be a slow and sometimes frustrating process. But Dartmouth’s Dr. Dorey Glenn, who’s working in the hospital’s pediatric department as a faculty member with the HRH program, is learning how to get things done.
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