Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in Logistics and Management on Apr 26th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru Data management is a core process of any healthcare operation. Nyaya Health has a central mission of using data to drive our services, evaluate our outcomes, and to disseminate our work to others. We have published papers and have extensive data uploaded to our wiki. Our data management program has a [...]
Posted in News on Apr 13th, 2011
Bibhav Acharya, Executive Vice-President of Nyaya Health was invited to present at an interaction between non resident Nepalis and the two ambassadors (Nepali ambassador to the US and the US ambassador to Nepal) in Washington DC. This invitation-only event was organized by The Non-Resident Nepalis Association ( NRN) National Coordination Council of USA and featured in the Nepal News. [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Feb 10th, 2011
Posted by Bibhav Acharya Imagine that you live in a region that is connected to the rest of the world via only one road. The road has frequent landslides and it takes 12 hours to get to the nearest airport and 16 hours to the nearest intensive care unit (ICU). All of your supplies like [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Feb 1st, 2011
Dear friends and family, Today we share with you our 2010 Annual Report – we hope you’ll take a moment to read about the wonderful progress Nyaya and our partners have made this year in Achham, in the rural and impoverished west of Nepal. Nyaya began five years ago, compelled by the simple idea that [...]
Posted in News on Jan 27th, 2011
Posted by Astha Ramaiya In October Nyaya’s Wiki was selected as one of the Featured Projects for the FACT Social Justice Challenge. Recently, NetSquared, the sponsor of the Challenge interviewed Nyaya’s Director of Operations to learn more about Nyaya’s work in the global health delivery field. You can read his interview here. Tweet This Post
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Dec 24th, 2010
Posted by Duncan Maru Nyaya Health Co-Founder Duncan Maru, MD, PHD recently discussed Nyaya Health’s work in his talk on “Implementation Gaps and Quality Chasms: Building Health Systems in Rural Nepal” at the Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Noon Conference at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he is a resident physician. His slide show is available [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Dec 9th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz As I’ve written about before on this blog, many of the challenges Nyaya faces in delivering health services are outside of the clinical realm. Many of these challenges revolve around management and administration, yet we often hear skepticism about the importance of managers, what they offer organizations, or that enhanced management [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Nov 27th, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz I recently had the privilege of chatting with close friend and colleague Ari Johnson of Project Muso. He had just returned from Mali where his team works with a similar mission and objectives to Nyaya and other rights-based organizations. We talked of our challenges in developing health care with a “preferential [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff, Logistics and Management on Nov 23rd, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz As Nyaya’s Director of Operations I’m asked regularly how I, or any of Nyaya’s other volunteers not in Nepal, can help to expand access to health care services without actually being in Nepal. And as a medical student my colleagues often presume that my work with Nyaya is caring for patients. [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Aug 26th, 2010
Posted by Jennifer Guo Over the years, Nyaya has been fortunate to have many partners and supporters in our fight against healthcare inequalities. One such organization is the EquityEditors Association (EEA). EEA was conceptualized as a non-profit organization of socially-conscious medical scientific editors who donate a portion of their income (1-100%) to global health organizations [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management on Aug 6th, 2010
Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD It sometimes behooves the writers of this blog to take a step back from the daily grind of healthcare delivery in resource-poor settings and talk about something somewhat more “academic”. So humor me and allow a brief digression into the world of reference management software. You may in fact [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Social Justice and Health on Jun 30th, 2010
Posted by Sushant Wagley From June 11 – 13, the 14th annual America Nepal Medical Foundation’s conference was held in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. For the second year in a row, Nyaya was invited to present at the 2010 ANMF conference. Nyaya’s presentation – “Telemedince as Collaborative Medicine” – described Nyaya’s experiences with telemedicine in rural [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Jun 21st, 2010
Posted by Duncan Maru, MD, PHD We have spoken before about the lack of transparency and accountability among those working in the fields of global health and global development. This is a systemic problem at multiple levels: the disempowerment of the so-called “beneficiaries” of global health and development projects; persistent memes of colonialism and racism that dog [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Reports on May 3rd, 2010
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Nyaya presented on their work at the 7th World Health Care Congress in Washington D.C. earlier this month. The poster presentation – “Transparent operations to enhance accountability and collaboration within global health” – discussed Nyaya’s work to develop a transparent organizational model. You can read more about the WHCC Affordable Health [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News, Social Justice and Health, Uncategorized on Apr 15th, 2010
Nyaya was invited to present its work as a part of the Harvard University South Asian Public Health Meeting. The meeting, held over two days at the School of Public Health (Boston, USA), included speakers from various institutions and countries, discussing issues of healthcare delivery in South Asia. Dan Schwarz presented on behalf of Nyaya, [...]