Health Frontiers

Programs: Laos project - over the past 27 years health frontiers has helped the lao university of health sciences to build the first post graduate medical education program in lao history. In the past year the university graduated 9 more pediatricians and 10 more internists for a total of 198 primary health specialists to date. They are now helping to transform primary health care in a desperately needy population. We also helped the university to launch new residency program this year in emergency medicine. In earlier programs, however, we have reduced our role while increasing support for subspecialty training of top lao graduates in collaboration with khon kaen university and other regional centers. These will be the sub specialists who replace the volunteers.

children in disasters project -the special needs of children in disasters has been an hf focus since 1996. Our volunteers have helped conduct workshops on children in disasters in more than 20 countries and cosponsored the children-in-disasters workshops at case western reserve university. Recently, hf volunteers have conducted workshops in lahore pakistan (nov 2017) mumbai india (dec 2017) and abuja nigeria (jan 2018) and are planning workshops for bangladesh and puerto rico.

uganda project: this project has roots in hiv-infected babies studied during the 1990's. Those who survived to school age have had their school fees paid by the investigator, and friends. The project was later broadened by a remarkable maryland family after one of them had an unforgetable assignment in the hiv/aids children's ward at mulago hospital. Since then, they have assembled an annual contribution for the neediest children at mulago. Now others are contributing. We wire these funds to the makerere johns hopkins research collaboration in kampala, where trusted colleagues guarantee they will be well spent where most needed. More donors are welcome.

this was a grant of 2,600 to the national pediatric hypnosis training institute to provide scholarships for health professional from resource poor countries to attend nphti courses and eventually to sponsor mind body workshops in overseas settings. The project is in the planning stage.