Mental health problems affect one in 10 adults in Nepal over their lifetime. The burden of mental health disorders has risen as the country recovers from a decade-long internal conflict, the 2015 earthquake, and the global COVID-19 pandemic. In response to this urgent...

Madeline Fields, MD, and Lara Marcuse, MD, Professors of Neurology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Co-Directors of the Mount Sinai Epilepsy Center, recently traveled to Nepal to expand neurological care for underserved communities.  Their mission...

Brendan Carr, MD, MA, MS, Chief Executive Officer and Professor and Kenneth L. Davis, MD, Distinguished Chair, Mount Sinai Health System, recently visited Nepal to see firsthand the work of the AMPATH Nepal partnership—a collaboration between the AMPATH Consortium of...

Dhulikhel Hospital and the AMPATH Nepal partnership recently launched an Adolescent Health Clinic at the hospital. The clinic was the culmination of months of work and training that brought adolescent health experts from Mount Sinai’s Arnhold Institute for Global...

To improve health care for youth in western Kenya, the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai and our AMPATH Kenya partnership held a pivotal clinical training for health care providers who work with adolescents. The Institute leads the adolescent health...

At my first meeting with the staff at Dhulikhel Hospital in Nepal, Suman Shahukhala, a pharmacist, showed me bacteria growing from a urine sample of a patient who came in very ill. The bacteria was E. coli, and it was resistant to all antibiotics available in Nepal...