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...
Employee Spotlight: Jeb Weisman, PhD
Jeb Weisman, PhD, is Director of Global Health Informatics. He leads the Arnhold Institute for Global Health’s design and informatics initiatives, applying unique methods, tools, technologies, and multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives to complex global...
Florence Jaguga, MBChB, MMed, Brittany McCoy, MD, Leading Progress in Mental Health Care in Kenya
We are currently in the midst of a global crisis in child and adolescent mental health. The COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on the significant barriers youth and their families experience to accessing quality, evidence-based mental health care in all settings,...
Peer Navigators Provide Support for Pregnant and Parenting Adolescents in Western Kenya
Approximately 15 percent of Kenyan adolescent girls 15-19 years old have either had a live birth or are pregnant with their first child. Globally, evidence suggests an estimated 14 percent of adolescent girls and young women give birth before the age of 18. Across...
