Global Health Events

Connecticut Children’s presents the Global Healthcare Fair each spring in Hartford. The fair provides an opportunity for medical staff to share their commitment to improving healthcare for children in resource-deficient countries via oral or poster presentations.

Upcoming events

Decolonizing Global Healthcare Conference
May 5, 2021
8:30am-4pm
Hartford, CT

Past presentations

2019

• “Sustainable Healthcare for Haiti”
• “Factors influencing the delay in presentation of children with cancer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti”
• “Current use of bedside ultrasound in refugee clinics, Tel Aviv Israel”
• “Improving health literacy among Eritrean refugees in Tel Aviv, Israel”
• “A unique refugee health residency elective in Tel Aviv, Israel”
• “Developing a Syphilis Prevention, Treatment and Translational Science Center in Cali, Colombia”
• “Sustainable Healthcare for Haiti”
• “Measuring change in knowledge acquisition of Rwandan residents to monitor individual and departmental Improvements during the Human Resources for Health program.”
• “Various Gaps and Challenges to Neonatal Healthcare in India”
• “Pacemaker Implantation Teaching”
• “Global Health Trip took Place in Rwanda”
• “UConn Immigration Rights Initiative (UIRI)”
• “Ability to Further Nursing Practice & Professional Growth at Connecticut Children’s”
• “Uganda Project”

2018

• “Running from Home: Caring for Displaced Residents of Mosul and Northern in Iraq.”
  Kristin Welch, MD, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
• “Intensive Care Interventions in Resource Limited Settings.”
  Michael Canarie, MD, Pediatric Critical Care, Yale-New Haven Hospital
• “Pediatric Surgical Care In Haiti.”
  Brendan Campbell, MD, MPH, FACS, Department of General Surgery, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
• “Integrating HIV Programs into the Namibian Primary Care System: My Time in The Peace Corps.”
  Christine Johanna Callahan, MPH, Senior Research Assistant, The Undiagnosed Diseases Network, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Medicine
• “Puerto Rico: Seven Months after the Hurricane.
  Marietta Vazquez, MD, Yale Pediatric Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Global Health Track Director
• “Building Capacity Within a Pediatric Residency Program in Kigali, Rwanda.”
  Cliff O’Callahan, MD, PhD, FAAP, Pediatric Faculty and Director of Nurseries, Middlesex Hospital
• “The Evolution of a Type I Pediatric Diabetes Program in Haiti.”
  Nancy Street Dunbar, MD, MPH, FAAP, Director, Bone and Mineral Disorders Program
• “The Evolution of a Refugee Clinic in Connecticut.”
  Melissa Held, MD, Department of Infectious Disease, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
• “A Medical Residency Curriculum in Refugee Health.”
  Susan Levine, MD, MPH, Ambulatory Site Director, Internal Medicine Residency, Medical Director of General Medicine Faculty Practice, Medical Director of UConn Immigrant Health
• “Advanced Ear Surgery in Nicaragua.”
  Scott Schoem, MD, MBA, FAAP, Division Chief Department of Otolaryngology, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center
• “State of the Union, the Center for Global Health, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.”
  Adam M. Silverman, MD, FAAP, Pediatric Critical Care and Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Director, Center for Global Health, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center

2017

• “Rural Oral Health Care, A Community Based Approach”
  Keri Discepolo, DDS, MPH, Director of Dental Services
• “Continuing Implementation of an Infant Cooling Program to Treat Infants with Moderate Hypoxic Brain Injury in Hyderabad, India”
  Naveed Hussain, MBBS, MD, DCH, Director, Neonatal Research
• “From Local to Global: Expanding Craniofacial Care Through International Volunteer Services”
  Kelly Mabry, Ph.D., CCC/SLP, Charles Castiglione, MD, FAACS, Richard Bevilacqua, MD, Craniofacial Services
• “Complex Spine Surgery in Developing Countries: Challenges and Rewards”
  Mark Lee, MD, Department of Orthopaedics
• “Emergency Medical Relief to Haiti: Perspectives on a Unique Resident Rotation”
  Susan Levine, MD, MPH, University of Connecticut Health Center, Jessica Lozier, MD, PGY1, University of Connecticut Residency Program
• “Blown Away: Haiti in the Aftermath of Hurricane Matthew”
  Kristin Welch, MD, Attending Physician, Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• “Developing Pediatric Critical Care Capacity in Haiti”
  Adam M. Silverman, MD, FAAP, Attending, Pediatric Critical Care and Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Director, Center for Global Health
• “The Future Generation in Global Health and Innovation: A Family Portrait”
  Karen Damon Callahan, BSA, BSN, MHS, RN, CPN, Nurse Manager, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Associate Director, Center for Global Health
• “Pediatrics in India From 3 Perspectives”
  Lisa Grady, DO, PGY-2, Mansi James, DO, PGY-2, Martha Salek, MD, PGY-2, Baystate Children’s Hospital
• “C-PAP Education for Neonatal Respiratory Distress in Haiti”
  Lisa LeBon, MAE, RRT, Assistant Manager Respiratory Care, Tracey Proulx, RN, IBCLC, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• “Helping Babies Breath and Helping Babies Survive in the Villages of Hyderabad India”
  Kathryn Miller, RNC, Patricia Thurston, RN, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit – West
• “The Challenges and Successes of a Hospital-based Inpatient and Outpatient Feeding Program in Accra, Ghana”
  Fiona Pirrocco, DO, PGY-2, Baystate Children’s Hospital

2016

• “Pediatric Anesthesia in Resource-Limited Settings”
  Richard Kuntz, MD

• “Clinical, Cultural, and Logistical Barriers to Providing Cardiac Care to Patients in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Africa”
  Mollie Mullaney, BSN, RN, CCRN-K, Department of Cardiology

• “Implementing an Infant Cooling Program to Treat Infants With Moderate Hypoxic Brain Injury in Hyderabad, India”
  Naveed Hussain, MD, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

• “Medicine in Panama, One Village at a Time”
  Anna Weingarten, DO, Pediatric Residency Program, PGY-3

• “State of the Union of Global Health at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center”
  Adam Silverman, MD, Director, Center for Global Health, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Department of Emergency Medicine

• “Screening for Behavioral Health Conditions in an International Clinical Placement”
  Rosalyn Bravo-Cavoli, APRN, Clinical Instructor for Yale School of Nursing, Adjust Faculty, Capital Community College Division of Nursing

• “Discussion of a case: 14-year-old male with acute onset respiratory distress in setting of chronic chest mass, encountered while abroad at Hospital Bernard Mevs, Haiti”
  Katie Clouthier, DO, Pediatric Residency Program, PL-2

• “Building Neonatal Resuscitation Capacity in Haiti: Training the Trainers”
  Sandra Motta, MD, FAAP, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

• “Growth and Nutritional Assessment of Preschool Children in Tsachila Communities in Ecuador”
  Agnes Reschke, MD, Pediatric Residency Program

• “Enhancement of Pediatrics in Peru”
  Rose Flammang, PT, DPT; Kim Hammersmith, PT
  

2015

• “Common Sense and Sensibility: Pediatric Surgical Care in Haiti”
  Brendan Campbell, MD, MPH, Department of Pediatric Surgery
• “From the Tundra to the Tropics – An Otolaryngologist’s Experience in Global Healthcare” Valerie Coté, MD, CM, FAAP, FRCS(C), Department of Otolaryngology
• “Syria’s Children: Refugee work in Jordan”
  Jennifer Martin, BSN, MPH, RN, Nurse Manager MS7
• “Reducing Neonatal Mortality in a Haitian Urban Hospital: Beginning the Journey”
  Victor C. Herson, MD, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
• “Fostering Collaboration: An Experience in Inter-professional Student Service Learning in Nicaragua”
  Rose Flammang, PT, DPT, Physical Therapy Department
• “Mending Hearts in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia”
  Mollie Mullaney, BSN, RN, Department of Cardiology
• “Maternal and Child Health in Pune, India”
  Christine Pulice, DO and Christen Vogel, MD, Pediatric Residency Program
• “Providing Healthcare in Rural Alaska”
  Margrit Saghafi, BSN, RN, Department of Orthopaedics

2014

• “A Qualitative Study about the Pediatric Type 1 Diabetes Program at Hôpital de Sacré Coeur (HSC) in Haiti”
  Nancy Dunbar, MD, MPH, Department of Pediatric Endocrinology
• “The Bawa Health Initiative; Healthcare in a Rural Village in the West Province of Cameroon, Africa”
  Karen Damon Callahan, MHS, RN, CPN
• “A Collaborative Project to Reduce Newborn and Neonatal Mortality at Justinien University Hospital in Cap-Haitian, Haiti”
  Adam Silverman, MD, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• “Healthcare in Afghanistan”
  Jennifer Martin, BSN, MPH, RN, MS7
• “Working Abroad Providing Surgeries for Congenital Cardiac Diseases”
  Whitney Elton, MSN/ED, RN, CCRN, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
• “Traveling with the Glens Falls Medical Mission Foundation to the Remote Area of Nueva Santa Rosa, Guatemala”
  Christine Liebler, BSN, RN, PACU
• “X-Ray in Haiti”
  Jenna Downes, RT/(R), Department of Radiology
• “Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia and The Chain of Hope –UK. The Cardiac Center of Ethiopia, in Addis Ababa”
  Mollie Mullaney, BSN, RN, CCRN, Department of Cardiology

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