Welcome to K. Rivet Amico, the newest moderator for the Adherence & Retention Community on GHDonline.org. Rivet is a research scientist at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Health, Innovation, and Prevention, and also works with Applied Health Research as a developer and trainer of interventions that use communication and counseling theory to support adherence and retention in the context of clinical trials and resource-limited settings.
I recently met with Dr. David Bangsberg, who — in addition to being Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard School of Medicine — is the director of the Center for Global Health at Massachusetts General Hospital, of the International Programs at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, and of the International Program for the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research.
He reflected on his work with the Mbarara University of Science and Technology in Uganda saying that “the role of academic institutions both locally and globally is twofold: to come up with innovative interventions to prevent and treat the world’s greatest diseases and to train the next generation of leaders.” He’s joining other leaders today and tomorrow to discuss the role of academic institutions in solving global health delivery problems at the Global Health Delivery symposium hosted by Harvard Medical School.