The AMPATH partnership welcomes Stanford University as the newest member of the AMPATH Consortium of North American academic health centers.
The team from Stanford is already building connections with the family medicine team working in Webuye, Kenya, and looking forward to increased faculty and trainee engagement.
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Each year Kenyan and North American AMPATH partners and leaders gather to discuss recent advances, future plans and enhancing collaborations. This year’s summit was hosted by Eli Lilly in Indianapolis.
Read MoreIn a country with a widely dispersed population, teleconferencing technology is improving access to education and support for health workers in Kenya.
Read MoreAMPATH’s work is at the center of a new global initiative called Access Accelerated, a partnership working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goal to reduce premature deaths from NCDs by one-third by 2030.
Read MoreWith the continued work of AMPATH workers like Mercy and Elizabeth and the growth of programs like outreach screenings that bring care to the people and bring down the barriers to community health, more women like The Beautiful Ones can lead longer, healthy lives and lift up their families and their communities.
Read MoreThe Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin recently joined AMPATH as the newest Consortium member.
Read MorePBS Newshour highlighted AMPATH’s innovative efforts to stop this scourge by working to implement the paper analytical device or PAD.
Read MoreImani Workshops was created by AMPATH in 2005 to provide sustainable income opportunities to HIV-positive women in western Kenya.
Read MoreAs I face my last week here in Kenya, I am dreading going home and facing the ultimate question: "How was Africa?"
Read MoreToday I believe I experienced the true meaning of the AMPATH consortium.
Read MoreConnecting Hearts Abroad is a program that was established by Eli Lilly and Company in 2011 that sends their employees to underserved communities to provide direct assistance by teaching, enhancing healthcare, and aiding in community development.
Read MoreEarlier this month, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins visited Eldoret to tour AMPATH clinic sites and meet with clinicians, students and researchers, making this the first visit by a current NIH director.
Read MoreThe Ruth Lilly Philanthropic Foundation awarded $7 million to strengthen program development and establish two endowed chairs at the Indiana University Center for Global Health for its AMPATH initiative in Kenya.
Read MoreThe African sun is spectacularly bright, the sky a calming blue, and the temperature a perfect 70. I've just returned from a walk in downtown Eldoret.
Read MoreAs I was walking through the new Chandaria Cancer and Chronic Diseases Centre at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Eldoret, Kenya, I was reminded of the early days of diabetes mellitus (DM) care in western Kenya.
Read MoreFor more than a decade Eli Lilly and Company has partnered with AMPATH to provide medicine for diabetes, cancer, and mental health patients in western Kenya.
Read MoreThis month US Ambassador to Kenya, Bob Godec, met with Moi University, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital and AMPATH leadership.
Read MoreLast week the Indiana University School of Medicine Dean, Jay Hess, MD, and the Chair of the Department of Medicine, Mark Geraci, MD, returned after their inaugural trip to Eldoret, Kenya, to see firsthand the global reach of the IU School of Medicine and the impact that the school has had on the lives of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa.
Read MoreMore than 25 years ago, one Indianapolis philathropist, Marty Moore, heard about the global health vision of four Indiana University faculty members and fronted the funds for them to explore a potential partnership with a medical school in Africa or Asia.
Read MoreIn an effort to help improve income security in western Kenya, AMPATH developed a community-run microfinance model called Group Integrated Savings for Empowerment (GISE).
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