March 2024 Report

AMPATH Kenya:

• Spring Kenya Program: 24 travelers students, faculty, residents, and fellows will go to AMPATH Kenya between March and June.

• Rob Neely’s June surgery team members was shared with our team to begin orientation and logistical prep. He has eight members on this team, including Emily Farkas. Several are returning from previous visits to AMPATH for surgeries.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

• In March the BUAP Facultad de Medicina Dean Dr. Luis Vazquez de Lara and Dra. Lis Rosales Baez, Associate Dean of Research and Post-Graduate Studies, will visit Dell Med and UT in Austin for the first time. Their time will includ meetings with Dell Med and relevant UT leadership, team dinner, a Global Health faculty reception, a leadership dinner, and a strategic planning session with our team.

EDUCATION:

• Monthly seminars:
  • o February 22, 2024 5-6:30pm CT Dr. Flor Lucia Morales Morales of BUAP and Dr. Carlos Mery focused on pediatric cardiology. 107 people attended. Click here to view the recording.
  • o March 21, 2024 6-7:30pm CT Dr. Jaime Justo Janeiro of BUAP and Dr. Michelle Lubetzky of UT will focus on kidney transplants. Click here to register.
  • o April 18, 2024 6-7:30pm CT. Dr. Daniel Limon of BUAP and Dr. Greg Fonzo of UT will focus on the the therapeutic use of THC and psychedelics. Click here to register.

• Grand Rounds: Monday March 25 12:30-1:30pm CT. Liberty Wickman from Partners in Health will present “Exploring Applied Decolonial Theory to Address Remnant Coloniality in Global Health.” Click here to register.
• Global Virtual Exchange Elective in Migrant Health: In February 2024 we launched the global virtual exchange elective in migrant health. Twenty-three (23) BUAP and UT medical students are participating in the course co-taught by Dr. Rebecca Cook (UT) and Dra Marta Elba Gonzalez Mejia (BUAP).

RESEARCH:

• SOPs: We continue to complete the relevant SOPs.
• Working Groups: Our team continues to support the eight Working Groups to meet and plan their community projects.
• AMBIA Round 3 Seed Grants: One application was awarded the AMBIA grant and we shared the Review Committee’s feedback with all five grant applicant groups to support future funding opportunities.

CARE:

• In mid-February 2024,, our team participated and helped lead the BUAP Facultad de Medicina participation in a BUAP University-wide outreach event in a peri-urban community, the Junta Auxiliar de San Pedro Zacachimalpa, Puebla. The multidisciplinary team from the Facultad de Medicina provided health services to 167 people and health promotion to 600 people. Also, 30 people attended training and 100 medical supplies were provided.
• February 22-23, 2024 we completed promotor(a) training workshop in breast cancer for promotor(a)s in Colonia Agrarista and San Francisco Xochiteopan. The workshop with 28 female trainees was led by the AMPATH/MAPAS México pasantes with coaching from the Clinical Team Leader. The three-hour workshop included several interactive components including role-play and hands-on practice with a breast model to practice exams.
• March 13 and 14, 2024, we led our third multidisciplinary AMPATH/MAPAS México health outreach that serves two of the three pilot communities. Over the two days, 86 BUAP (students, interns, residents and faculty) representing eight diffirent disciplines provided 241 clinical consultations (90 adults and 151 children) and reached 231 individuals with health education/health talks. We placed a heavy emphasis on NCD and obesity screening, integral consultations for patients with NCDs, and increasing early cancer detection for breast, cervical, and prostate cancer.
• CHEER Eco-Stove Project: we completed baseline data collection in the CHEER eco-stove project at the end of February and presented in the CHEER seminar series on March 20, 2024.