Global Heath Training
There are several opportunities for ID fellows to obtain clinical and/or research experiences in Tropical Medicine and HIV-AIDS care in resource-limited countries.
Established sites are the following:
- Beira, Mozambique. In collaboration with the Catholic University of Mozambique (UCM) our HIV/AIDS Progam has just completed the construction of a training center. Peter Millard, MD, MPH, one of the faculty members is the clinical director of this training center located on the grounds of the UCM campus. Its mission is to provide integrated health care (including HIV, TB and malaria) and “hands on training” for health care workers in Mozambique and medical students of UCM. The clinic will open its doors in late fall of 2008. Also, there is a rural site in Mangunde, Mozambique, which is viewed as a model of decentralized HIV care. This project has been the brainchild of Aurelio Gomes, MD, MPH who is a member of our ID faculty.
- Manila, the Philippines. The Philippine General Hospital (PGH) of the University of the Philippines is a very large hospital with excellent training opportunities in tropical diseases. The PGH Infectious Diseases staff is closely linked to the Philippine National Institutes of Health and has a research interest in the development of a dengue vaccine (Dr. Bravo), diagnostic tests for TB (Dr. Destura) and the Neglected Tropical Diseases (Dr. Belizario).
Other opportunities exist in Lilongwe, Malawi (Malaria, TB, HIV), Brisbane, Australia (ESBL), Leiden, the Netherlands (TB diagnosis, restricted use of antibiotics, travel medicine), Palermo, Italy (HCV, Solid Organ Transplant research) and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (HIV, HCV).