AMPATH Ghana

Recruitment
- Ghana-Based: Godwin Vidzro (Project Assistant, Finance) and Sualisu Salifu (Senior Operations Analyst) began onboarding on April 3rd
Clinton Global Initiative 2024 Meeting:
- Preparing for Deeper Dive streaming on May 2 featuring AMPATH Ghana’s Executive Site Director, Laud Boateng
Donations:
- Donation of pediatric mannequins and other items to TTH Department of Pediatrics (from University of Louisville)
- Donation of various medical supplies to TTH (from Afya)
Faculty Engagement
- FLAIR (US Embassy Ghana): Pairing UDS awardees with NYU counterparts ongoing

Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Program:
- Cervical Cancer: Planning ongoing for the launch of a two-week training course on cervical cancer screening (dates of training: 5/14 to 5/24)
OB/GYN
- Had a strategic meeting with co-leads on MFM unit as OB/GYN TL starts to transition out of her role, highlights include:
- Planning for success of CUGH-Hologic women’s health grant
- Possible future trips by TL to continue assisting the development and expansion of the unit
- 3-5-year plan: leverage the MFM unit in order to be able to start a hybrid MFM fellowship at TTH
Surgery
- Planned visit by two faculty surgeons and two trainees in June 2024 with goal is to establish a more formalized clinical partnership identifying key areas where NYU faculty can be of assistance in assisting with surgical clinical care at TTH
- Focusing efforts on the early stages of establishing a bi-directional streaming of surgical cases and educational lectures between NYU and TTH
- Working on obtaining laparoscopic equipment with a future focus on providing a formalized laparoscopic training curriculum
Infectious Diseases Molecular Diagnostic Lab:
- Lab arrived in Accra, Ghana on March 29
- Tax exemptions and FDA clearance granted, final step is completing clearing process
- AMPATH Ghana updated donation SOP with lessons learned from the donation

OB/GYN
- TL mentoring 2 UDS-SOM students on reproductive health-based thesis work
- 2 lectures given to nursing students as part of their NYU Women’s Global Health Elective
Internal Medicine
- Online lecture series is ongoing
- Started a new skills-based and case-based discussion series for the PBL6 students
Surgery
- Currently providing yearly lectures to medical students at UDS on their surgical clerkship (PBL 4 and 6 classes)
- Plan to provide a fundamentals of research course to TTH surgical faculty and trainees
- Plan to provide a lecture discussing how to review CT scans as a surgeon with common pathologies
Medical Student Exchange
- Students have submitted visa applications
- In the process of requesting expedited visa interviews with the Embassy
- Finalized necessary vaccinations needed for medical student exchange program
- Began drafting preceptorship and elective forms for NYU Langone processes
Off-Campus Clinical Education
- The Executive Site Director visited the students at Techiman and conducted an initial information gathering session on the pros and cons of the new program
TEACH
- TSIM
  - Continuing to work with the 10 faculty who attended the NYSIM course to develop and implement simulation into their departments further
  - David Salifu piloted simulation project to randomized group of medical students
  - Presented to Clinical Skills Group on progress of work, included Tania Satnick and neurosurgery team for further partnership in working sessions

Human-Centered Design pilot projects
- Notified HCD Pilot groups on decisions and status of funding
- Set up internal meeting to discuss standards of practice for projects
- Set up in-person meetings with pilot project groups to discuss expectations
ECHO
- Initiated paperwork for NYU Langone as ECHO partner
  - Discussed expanding AMS partnership with TTH as the Hub site
  - Monthly NYU-UDS-TTH-MU-IU ECHO meetings ongoing
  - Discussions with Moi regarding expanding engagement to other clinical areas where Moi has developed resources and experience (e.g. POCUS, cardiovascular sonography, neuro nursing, pharmacy, etc).
  - TEACH Pilot Project (Adam Schwartz) met regarding an ECHO curriculum model for hypertension ECHO (from TEACH pilot project)
  - TEACH Pilot Project (Kottkamp) on AMR met to decide lecture schedule and additional planning for implementation
  - Updated IU and ECHO Global on status of implementation including 1) engaging with pilot projects 2) current timelines
Live Streaming
- Meeting between NYU Long Island, NYU Department of Surgery, and Temple University to streamline surgery efforts and future collaborations
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Surveys in final review stages and planned next steps for implementation in summer 2024

Research Proposals (in development or submitted):
- NYU Climate Change Seed Grant
- NIH R01
  - Tamale Climate, Health, Agriculture, Nutrition, Gardening, and Equity (T-CHANGE) is in scientific review and should expect scientific review in 3 months
Research Projects (Active, ongoing):
- Family Planning Unit
  - Needs assessment finalized and identified two target areas:
    - 1. Need in skills training in advanced FP (IUD placement, difficult implant removals
    - 2. Need to increase awareness and education initiatives in the community, specifically in schools
    - 3. Need to improve referrals between smaller health facilities and TTH
- ACHIEVE data analysis ongoing of qualitative data (semi-structured interviews) with 2 manuscripts in development (survey based data and scoping review data)
- CUGH-Hologic Maternal Health Grant IRB submitted to NYUGSOM and ethical clearance submitted to NHRC
- Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Environmental Health Survey is undergoing initial data analysis with manuscript development to start once completed
- Rapid Ethnography Assessment on Type II Diabetes manuscript development ongoing
- Health and Social Risks of Extreme Heat in Northern Ghana manuscript development ongoing
- Climate Change and Health Equity IRB approval completed, data collection to start
- MACH Ghana global health focused commentary manuscript in development

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