Collaboration and Partners
A critical element of the Salud Juntos model is collaboration with health care providers from established learning institutions.
University of Arizona:
The University of Arizona (UA) is pleased to support the work of Salud Juntos to improve the health and well-being of the people of Latin America and the Caribbean. The Arizona Center on Aging (ACOA), a Board of Regents Center of Excellence of the UA College of Medicine, hosts an active Division of Global Health, led by Jane Mohler, RN, MPH, PhD, and leads the UA-Salud Juntos collaboration. The ACOA is in partnership with Ronald E. Pust, MD, Director of the International Health curriculum at the UA Department of Family and Community Medicine, and the Global Health Forum, a student run special interest group to learn more about international health issues, and to gain firsthand experiences abroad during their medical education.
For our recent trip to La Guacamaya in June 2008, Dr Mohler responded to a request from the Health Committee of La Guacamaya and directed a comprehensive community health study in collaboration with Cornell University students. This provided essential information from which to build a healthy community. Dr. Fain recruited UA medical faculty from selected specialties to staff the clinic in La Guacamaya, to provide needed health care in pediatrics, family medicine, internists, obstetrics-gynecology, optometry, and cardiology. Working alongside the doctors were UA medical students, as part of a new UA medical student elective in Latin American health. Download more information.
Cornell University:
The Partnership for Honduran Health (P4HH) is a student group at Cornell University committed to aiding in the growth of healthy communities and individuals in Honduras. Currently P4HH is focused on assisting the NGO Salud Juntos in the town of La Guacamaya in the development of their clinic and affiliated public health projects. In the future, P4HH plans to send aid and students to Salud Juntos’ new site in Punta de Ocote as well. P4HH works with local non-profits in the Ithaca, NY community as well as other academic institutions from the United States – such as the University of Arizona Medical School and the Cornell Global Health Department. Though P4HH has no doctors among its members, it nonetheless has countless resources at its disposal which can help in the development of this clinic and the health of La Guacamaya and Punta de Ocote. P4HH is planning to have several trips in the future which will take students to Honduras to work on projects in health education, nutrition, and many other areas. All the actions of P4HH are enacted with the intent of empowering the people of Honduras to have their own clinics and health systems which will function, under their own guidance, to their highest capabilities.
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Salud Juntos has now now been directly or indirectly responsible for over 11,000 patient visits.
Brigades for January 2010
We completed two one week brigades in January. The first brigade, a vision clinic, from January 4th to 9th was led by Joseph Miller, MD an ophthal-mologist from the University of Arizona. He was joined by two ophthalmology residents, Leslie Garay, MD, and Carmen Felix Tacononte, MD. They were assisted by Laura Miller. Over the course of the week they saw 225 patients, many having unusual conditions, especially useful for ophthalmology training. During the second brigade of January Mindy Fain, MD led the general medicine brigade to Punta Ocote Jan 25-29th. She was assisted by Ana Sanguineti, MD a current fellow at the University of Arizona, and Alejandro Sanguineti, MD, a pediatrician from Tucson, AZ who conducted a children's clinic. Also participating were Sheridan Reiger, Executive Director, Becca Mandel, and Dale Reiger. Over the course of the week they worked side-by-side with the the clinic nurse and community health providers, and provided care for over 240 patients. Read more
Future Brigades Information
Terry Tack, OD will be conducting a short vision clinic in February at La Guacamaya. He will be assisted by Ruth Ann Tack, Sheridan Reiger, Executive Director and Robin Bigelow, Assistant Executive Director.
Another short general medicine brigade to Punta Ocote will be led by Mary Kay O'Neill, MD in March. She will be joined by Jeff Harris, MD, MPH. Assisting them will be Sheridan Reiger and Robin Bigelow.
Further Plans are being made for our June brigades.