January 2017 Global Health Series - A Case Study of the Rwanda Health and Healing Program

The Global Health Residency Tracks of Christiana Care Health System , in partnership with the Delaware Academy of Medicine & Delaware Public Health Association, are pleased to invite you to this month's global health talk.

This talk is open to anyone and we welcome all disciplines!

Our panelists for this month's talk will include:

James Plumb MD, MPH, Professor – Department of Family and Community Medicine, Vice-Chair – Community Medicine 
A 1969 Honors graduate of the University of Virginia and a 1974 AOA graduate of Jefferson Medical College, Dr. Plumb joined the Thomas Jefferson University Family Medicine Residency Program in 1974, then served as Residency Director from 1977-1982.  In 2003, he received his Master’s in Public Health Degree from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Since 1995, Dr Plumb has maintained a clinical practice in Lower North Philadelphia, in partnership with Project H.O.M.E., which serves uninsured and formerly homeless individuals.  In 2002 he helped initiate the TJUH Center for Urban Health and has fostered partnerships with organizations serving five underserved, diverse neighborhoods. For the past eight years, he has been involved in the Rwanda Health and Healing Project in Rwanda. With colleagues, he has also developed an exchange program involving Rwanda Medical students coming to Jefferson to experience the interface between medical and public health education. To date, 28 students from Rwanda have spent two months at Jefferson, and more than 100 students have traveled to Rwanda.

Ellen Plumb, MD 
Dr. Ellen Plumb is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Family and Community Medicine at both Thomas Jefferson University and Christiana Care Health System. She is the Family Medicine Clerkship Director and a core global health faculty member of the Global Health Residency Track in Family Medicine at Christiana Care Health System.  She is also the Director of Special Programs and leads the the Rwanda Health and Healing Program for Sidney Kimmel Medical College. She also holds an adjunct appointment with TJUH’s College of Population Health, where she teaches the Introduction to Global Health course. She received her undergraduate training in anthropology and public health from Boston University and completed her medical, residency, and research and faculty development fellowship training at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Plumb’s longitudinal global health work has been in Uganda and Rwanda and her areas of expertise and interest are global health education program development and evaluation, trauma and global mental health, refugee health, human rights/asylum, and community-based research methods.

Audrey Tiberio, MPH
Audrey Tiberio is a recent graduate of Thomas Jefferson University receiving a Master’s in Public Health. During the course of her studies she had the opportunity to travel to rural Rwanda twice. Her time there was used to educate community health workers, conduct a needs assessment, and evaluate a pig breeding program.

Christopher Rabb, MD 
Dr. Raab is the Medical Director of the International Medicine Program at Nemours. His undergraduate degree from Muhlenberg College and his Medical Degree is from Temple University. He did his residency training at Nemours/A.I. DuPont Hospital for Children where he also served as Chief Resident.  He also is the Director of the Pediatric Refugee Clinic and Director of Pediatric Global Health. Beside his global health activities, Dr Raab is in the Division of Diagnostic Referral and Solid Organ Transplant. He is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Sydney Kimmel School of Medicine/ Thomas Jefferson University.

The February talk will be on "Migrant/Seasonal Farmworker Health" presented by Charita Olabiyi from Westside Family Healthcare.

The CCHS Global Health Curriculum is an interdepartmental collaboration, supporting the Global Health Tracks in the Depts. of Medicine and Family Medicine, and the Med-Peds Residency, with the support of the Delaware Academy of Medicine, Delaware Public Health Association, and Delaware Academy of Family Physicians.

There is no charge to attend this event, but registration is required. Food and Refreshments will be served.