Over the past 23 years, Child Family Health International (CFHI) has transformed over 8,000 participants’ lives through our Global Health […]
Read moreOver the past 23 years, Child Family Health International (CFHI) has transformed over 8,000 participants’ lives through our Global Health […]
Read moreAlana D’Onofrio participated in CFHI’s program Exploring HIV & Maternal/Child Health in Kabale, Uganda in September 2014. She is an aspiring physician assistant […]
Read moreScholarships and funding initiatives are key to making real strides in south-to-south participation in global health internships and reducing their exclusivity as the domain of the wealthy. Crowdfunding is also growing, and is a powerful tool that should be considered by WHO and other global health internship providers to improve equitable access to global health and other professional internships abroad.
Read moreOver the past decade, the number of American students in health fields going abroad has nearly tripled, with many opting for programs that take them out of the classroom and into clinics and hospitals. But as participation has increased, so, too, have educators’ concerns.
Read moreAn article profiling Child Family Health International – CFHI’s Global Health Education Programs in the current online edition of the Association of American Medical Colleges’ journal Academic Medicine contrasts two interpretations of ‘helping.’ The students writing the article draw an important contrast between the two definitions of ‘helping’ represented by CFHI Programs and brigades.
Read moreCFHI helps to identify community strengths, ingenuity, and passion. In close collaboration with local teams, CFHI creates programs and funds community health projects identified and carried out by local teams. This practice is based on the asset-based community development approach, formalized at Northwestern University.
Read moreFSM students go above and beyond the call of the program and support CFHI & Northwestern University School of Medicine Project training for parteras, or traditional midwives. Throughout the year students raise money to contribute towards a 5-day training for over 30 traditional midwives who attend over 40% of the births in the region.
Read more“Global Health Ethics is once again in the forefront of discussion with the recently published Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics chapter […]
Read moreDr. Rajagopal Dispenses Needed Medicines and a Healthy Dose of Respect. After a meeting with CFHI’s Founder, Dr. Evaleen […]
Read moreWhat is Competency Based Education? Competency-based education (known as CBE) has been all the rage in medical education for nearly […]
Read more“We are approaching a new highpoint in the prevalence of US residents who were born outside the country.” This is […]
Read moreIn October of 2009, fresh from a visit to South Africa, I wrote an entry to this Blog called The […]
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