Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson Global Health Scholars Program
The program has partnered over 25 years with overseas sites including the current sites:
Tyler Johnson, MD in South Africa
Borneo: Alam Sehat Lestari Health in Harmony
Liberia: JFK Memorial Medical Center
Rwanda: King Faisal Hospital (KFH) and Centre Universitaire de Kigali (CHUK)
Uganda: Makerere College of Health Sciences and Mulago Hospital
South Africa: Church of Scotland Hospital in Tugela Ferry, KwaZuluNatal
Program Mission
The Global Health Program builds capacity of health care at each of its established sites. Our goal is to establish longstanding Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Health Overseas Partnerships in Education Centers (HOPE Centers) through focusing our scholars and resources at each of the sites. The program seeks to develop partnerships of patient-centered care and models of teaching in low resource settings.
Internal Medicine Global Health Scholars 2011-2012
- Anosheh Afghahi: Uganda
- Patrick Cuydahy: South Africa
- David Karam: Borneo
- Philip Lee: Uganda
- Rena Patel: Uganda
- Shannon Peter: Rwanda
- Susan Ripper: Rwanda
- Gurmeet Sran: Rwanda
- Manu Uberoi: Borneo
- Irine Vodkin: Borneo
The program strengthens health care infrastructure and diagnostic skills at host settings, works to diminish “brain drain” from the developing world by building bilateral partnerships, and develops an effective response to the host country’s specific health care needs. The Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson HOPE Centers will be marked by resource support, enhanced clinical research, and medical education and exchange at each level of the continuing medical education process.
Please visit the Yale/Stanford J &J website for more information or visit Stanford Global Health for more information about Global Health at Stanford.
Director: Michele Barry, MD, FACP
Michele Barry, MD, FACP,
is a Professor of Medicine, Senior Associate Dean of Global Health and Director of Global Health Initiatives in Medicine at Stanford University. Previous to starting at Stanford, she was a professor of Medicine and Global Public Health at Yale University.
She also serves as the health consultant for the Ford Foundation overseas programs. As Co-Director for over 25 years of Yale/Johnson & Johnson Physician Scholar Award program she has sent over 1,000 physicians overseas to underserved areas. This program will now join with Stanford to become the Yale/Stanford/Johnson & Johnson Physician Scholar Award program.
Barry is a past President of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene and an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Science where she served on a task force to develop options to mobilize a volunteer U.S. Global Health Service Corps for HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria. She is the founding Chair of the Interest Group on Global Health, Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences and has recently started the subsection of global health for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Areas of publication include clinical tropical medicine, emerging infectious diseases, ethics of western research conducted overseas, health problems of underserved populations and globalization's impact upon health disparities. She served on the Obama Global Women's Health subcommittee and is a current Paul Rogers Society Ambassador to the US Congress for global health research advocacy.
Program Eligibility: Although Yale and Stanford residents are given preference for award eligibility we do offer a few funded awards to outstanding applications from other residency programs as well as to senior career physicians.
Competitive Stipend: Your salary is covered while overseas – airfare, housing, health insurance, evacuation and meals are provided through the competitive stipend award.
Application deadline for 2011-2012 has passed. The 2012-2013 application deadline will be in late January 2012. Learn more at: Yale/Stanford Physician Global Health Scholars Program
For questions regarding this program, contact the Center for Global Health Program Manager, Joce Rodriguez