http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Sun, 19 May 2013 09:20:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/08/mdp-students-map-kisumu-health-facilities/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/08/mdp-students-map-kisumu-health-facilities/#comments Mon, 08 Oct 2012 20:03:46 +0000 Susan Blaustein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=31071 Two Masters in Development Practice students, Paloma Ruiz Gonzalez and Marianna Costa Checa, used their MDP practicum this past summer to assist the Millennium Cities Initiative in mapping and surveying all health facilities in the Millennium City of Kisumu, Kenya, at the request of the city government and local health officials.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/10/08/mdp-students-map-kisumu-health-facilities/feed/ 2 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/28/ultrasound-trainings-improve-maternal-and-newborn-care-at-kumasi-hospitals/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/28/ultrasound-trainings-improve-maternal-and-newborn-care-at-kumasi-hospitals/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:09:25 +0000 Susan Blaustein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=16551 Maternal and neonatal mortality rates remain high across the Millennium Cities and throughout much of the developing world. All the more reason why we’re excited about the second in a series of ultrasound trainings and screenings in Kumasi, Ghana, led by the London-based International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG), MCI’s partner, which works all over the world to further maternal and child health through the use of this life-saving technology. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/07/28/ultrasound-trainings-improve-maternal-and-newborn-care-at-kumasi-hospitals/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/12/01/my-work-as-a-gsk-volunteer-for-mci-gathering-baseline-data-on-maternal-and-neonatal-health-services-in-kisumu-kenya/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/12/01/my-work-as-a-gsk-volunteer-for-mci-gathering-baseline-data-on-maternal-and-neonatal-health-services-in-kisumu-kenya/#comments Wed, 01 Dec 2010 17:14:44 +0000 Susan Blaustein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=9113 The following is a guest blog, authored by Mayuko Hashimoto, a GlaxoSmithKline PULSE volunteer from Tokyo, Japan, who is working with the Millennium Cities Initiative for six months in Kisumu, Kenya to further maternal and neonatal survival. As a volunteer with GlaxoSmithKline, I’ll be in Kisumu for six months to support the Millennium Cities Initiative in its efforts to help the city become sustainable and improve its social services. My role here is to assess the existing capacity of neonatal and maternal health care services offered through health centres and the outreach efforts of community health workers.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/12/01/my-work-as-a-gsk-volunteer-for-mci-gathering-baseline-data-on-maternal-and-neonatal-health-services-in-kisumu-kenya/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/09/14/practice-and-persevere-neonatal-survival-workshops-aim-to-reduce-infant-mortality-in-ghana/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/09/14/practice-and-persevere-neonatal-survival-workshops-aim-to-reduce-infant-mortality-in-ghana/#comments Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:11:59 +0000 Susan Blaustein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=6308 With only five years left until the 2015 deadline to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has called on world leaders to attend a summit in New York on 20-22 September 2010 to accelerate progress towards the MDGs, aimed at slashing poverty, hunger, disease, maternal and child deaths and other ills. MDG 4 aims for a two-thirds reduction in the mortality of children under-five. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/09/14/practice-and-persevere-neonatal-survival-workshops-aim-to-reduce-infant-mortality-in-ghana/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/07/01/saving-lives-one-birth-at-a-time-ghanaian-pediatricians-become-master-trainers-in-the-aaps-helping-babies-breathe-curriculum/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/07/01/saving-lives-one-birth-at-a-time-ghanaian-pediatricians-become-master-trainers-in-the-aaps-helping-babies-breathe-curriculum/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:18:50 +0000 Susan Blaustein http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=3730 ...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2010/07/01/saving-lives-one-birth-at-a-time-ghanaian-pediatricians-become-master-trainers-in-the-aaps-helping-babies-breathe-curriculum/feed/ 0