The Importance of Peer Mentors at the AMPATH Rafiki Centre
Peers play a critical role in supporting young people living with HIV as they navigate the HIV care continuum. Peer mentors, educators, or navigators, are young people of a similar age with shared lived experiences, such as being HIV positive, pregnant during...
Partnership Spotlight: Treating Hearts and Minds in Ghana
Every year, the month of February is American Heart Month, a campaign to raise awareness of cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in the United States during a Valentine’s Day season associated with hearts and all things red. But this risk does not end...
Mount Sinai Hosts First AMPATH Adolescent Health Summit to Advance Care, Research, and Education Initiatives for Kenyan Adolescents
Mount Sinai hosted the first annual AMPATH Kenya Adolescent Health Summit February 6-8 in Eldoret, Kenya. Multidisciplinary partners from across the Consortium gathered to discuss and set priorities for adolescent health in this region of Kenya. Anchored around the...
Learning Together—Building the Next Generation of Health Care Leaders
Impact. We all want to have an impact, an effect or influence on the people we meet, programs we create, or work we do. My residency program director, the late Carey Chisholm, MD, often talked of impact in the context of academic medicine: an opportunity to multiply...
Meet Rachel Vreeman, MD, MS, Director of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health at Mount Sinai
Rachel Vreeman, MD, MS, is Chair of the Department of Global Health and Health System Design at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Director of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health. A pediatrician and researcher, she also continues her research work...
Transforming Adolescent Health in Western Kenya: Empowering the Next Generation Through Leading With Care
Adolescence is an influential period of development and a critical time for laying the foundation of good health; during this life stage, adolescents establish practices and relationships that can be protective against, or put them at risk of, poor health outcomes. To...