GLOBAL HEALTH DELIVERY SEMINAR SERIES presents: Treating without a License in the Millennium Villages: Reconfiguring Health Systems

A talk by Prabhjot Singh Dhadialla
Program Director for Health Systems, Development and Research
Earth Institute, Columbia University

100 fold differences in spending per capita vs 100 fold differences in mortality rates.  That’s only the beginning of the cited differences between well-resourced, established health systems and low-resource, developing health systems.  Installing high energy/technology-dependent health system structures from regions with large bases of skilled health workers seems like a non-starter in areas of the world where there are few doctors or nurses to operate them.  Conversely, utilizing the vast array of formal and informal community-oriented service delivery techniques pioneered in low-resource, developing health systems seems impossible to coordinate in standardized, entrenched health systems.

Thousands of private clinics with the latest technology versus a thousand Community Health Workers treating without a license.  In each place, innovations abound as disparities in opportunities increase. Are communities in low-resource health systems missing out on technologically advanced care, a diversity of financing options and cutting edge research or are well-funded health systems missing vital elements of broad-based community participation?  What lessons can be exchanged in a common goal of providing systematic, integrated health care that is adaptable to the dynamic needs of communities?

Who has the license to make these vitally important decisions?

THURSDAY, OCT. 1
3:45 – 5:15 PM
TMEC 227
2nd Floor, Harvard Medical School,
260 Longwood

Students for Global Health (SGH) in collaboration with the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine is pleased to announce the fourth annual Global Health Delivery Seminar Series. The aim of this series is to engage leading global health practitioners in “intensive mentorship” sessions that will equip students with useful skills and insights for tackling key practical challenges in global health work.

*ALL* students are warmly invited to attend, regardless of background or interest in global health. Please also note that global health is indeed global, which includes domestic settings!