Employee Spotlight: Shurnette Henry
Shurnette Henry is a Senior Finance Manager at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health and the Department of Global Health and Health System Design at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In her role, she provides financial portfolio management and assists...
“Nothing About Us Without Us”: Involving Peers in Research—An Interview With a Peer Researcher at the AMPATH Rafiki Clinic
Peer navigators play an integral role in connecting adolescents with clinical care at the AMPATH Rafiki clinic, but what happens to peers as they transition from adolescence to young adulthood and beyond? The peer navigator program has immense benefits; it...
New Horizons in Ghana: From Research Collaboration to Bilateral Partnership
Since 2017, I’ve been privileged to collaborate with Ghana’s Navrongo Health Research Centre (NHRC) to explore and develop new care models to treat chronic diseases like high blood pressure and depression. We work in rural communities where there is often no doctor....
Employee Spotlight: Madeleine Ballard, PhD
Madeleine Ballard, PhD, Assistant Professor at the Arnhold Institute for Global Health and the Department of Global Health and Health System Design at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, designs and studies interventions to improve the performance of...
Arnhold Institute for Global Health Announces Support for Four Nepal Pilot Projects
At the end of 2022, AMPATH Nepal launched the Nepal Pilot Projects grant opportunity to accelerate the development of collaborative work between the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Dhulikhel Hospital, and Kathmandu...
Still No Health Without Mental Health
Every May, as we recognize Mental Health Awareness month, the global implications of ignoring mental well-being continue to grow. As early as 1953, the head of the World Health Organization declared that “without mental health there can be no physical health.” Vikram...