Mount Sinai Formalizes and Takes Leadership of the AMPATH Adolescent Working Group
Since 2015, Mount Sinai, through the Arnhold Institute for Global Health, has participated in the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Consortium, a collaboration between Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, and a...
Meet Sangina Ranjit Malla, MD, and Bhawana Regmi, MSc, Our Newest Trainees From Nepal
Sangina Ranjit Malla, MD, and Bhawana Regmi, MSc, trained and visited Mount Sinai through the Arnhold Institute for Global Health’s global health education program in September 2023 for one month. Dr. Ranjit is an Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology and...
The Evolution of the Peer Navigator Program at Rafiki: An Interview With the First Female Peer Navigator on the Benefits of Expansion
Peer navigators play an integral role in the care provided to adolescents at the AMPATH Rafiki Clinic. The peer navigators at the MTRH-Rafiki Centre for Excellence in Adolescent Health serve more than 800 adolescents who have shared lived experiences, such as living...
A “Profound Honor”: Mount Sinai Partnership Expands Health Care to Thousands in Guyana
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is seizing “an amazing opportunity” in global public health in a three-year initiative that is expanding health care to Guyana’s more than 800,000 citizens. Launched in 2022, the initiative is a partnership among Mount...
Addressing Health Challenges in the Queens Community Through the NYC Partnership Pilot Project Awards
Health challenges or inequities can be driving forces for change. This has led the NYC Partnership to award one-year pilot funds to address health challenges faced by communities receiving care in the public health care system in Queens, New York. This funding will...
Towards Youth-Centered HIV Care and Prevention: A Mount Sinai Medical Student’s Experience in Eldoret, Kenya
I arrived in Eldoret, “The City of Champions,” at the beginning of September 2023 to embark on a three-month research elective within the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH). As a fourth-year MD/MPH dual-degree student at the Icahn School of...