Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in staff profiles on Feb 3rd, 2012
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s team is composed of an impressive array of over 100 staff members in Achham, and countless volunteers around the world.  Our Country Director, Gregory Karelas, acts as the fulcrum for all of our operations in Achham, coordinating the work of both our Achhami staff and international volunteers.  Despite this, his [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jan 20th, 2012
Posted by Dan Schwarz This past week, Nyaya Health Nepal received a further allocation of 30lakh rupees (approximately $35,700 USD) from the Ministry of Health of Nepal.  As part of Nyaya Health Nepal’s public private partnership with the Nepali Ministry of Health to administer services at Bayalpata Hospital, the Ministry has made the strong commitment [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Dec 3rd, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s community health worker (CHW) program has grown extensively in its first 18 months. Covering an area of more than 20,000 people, throughout six of the area’s villages, Nyaya is now working with nearly 100 CHWs, who are all locally-employed women from the villages that they serve. Recently, Nyaya has been [...]
Posted in Mortality Reviews, News, Social Justice and Health on Oct 1st, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Over the last two years Nyaya has spearheaded a Morbidity and Mortality Conference (M&M), which aims to provide a venue for Bayalpata Hospital’s clinical staff to critically reflect on and evaluate serious illnesses and deaths that occur. The effort is aimed at improving the quality of the care we offer, particularly [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Sep 27th, 2011
Posted by Borgny Ween and Knut Skyberg, Norway During the last year we have experienced how fun it is to combine planning contemporary music shows in Norway with supporting a health aid organization as Nyaya Health. How did this start?  It started as a pretty wild idea while planning Knut’s 60’s birthday celebration and ended with [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Sep 24th, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya was recently invited to present its work to the Norwegian Institute of Occupational Health, of which long-time Nyaya supporter Dr. Knut Skyberg is Research Director and Senior Physician.  Chief Operating Officer Dan Schwarz’s presentation was webcast live, and can be viewed here: ————- Dan Schwarz is the Chief Operating [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Aug 9th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru We would love some discussion and feedback about a surgical implementation science protocol we just published on BMJ Open. This research will evaluate our implementation of surgical services at our rural district hospital in remote western Nepal. As you all are acutely aware, surgical care is a severely neglected area in [...]
Posted in News on Aug 3rd, 2011
Nyaya Health’s Chief Operating Officer, Dan Schwarz, was recently quoted as part of PRNewswire’s press release that unveiled 21 global health case studies for open access to the public that were produced by the Global Health Delivery Project and Harvard Business Publishing. These case studies have previously been used as the core of Harvard’s Global Health Effectiveness [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jul 29th, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Along our journey, Nyaya has been blessed to find support from all corners of the world, and among all our supporters, the dedication of our friends in Norway continues to humble and inspire us all. As has been written about on this blog twice before, we have received an incredible amount [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Jun 13th, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Bayalpata Hospital has been featured in a new article on Outline News, written by Nepali free-lance journalist Loksari Kunwar. You can view the article here. Nyaya Health would like to thank Loksari ji for her great reporting and for her continued commitment to the people of Achham. —————– Dan Schwarz is [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on May 16th, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Here at Bayalpata Hospital, we’ve recently had several visits from respected government and non-government officials / organizations who have questioned our policy of paying our community health workers (CHWs). In reflecting with them and in other conversations, I thought it might be appropriate to say a bit about our position on [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Mar 20th, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz In July of 2010, Bayalpata Hospital began it’s Safe Motherhood Program in partnership with the Nepali Ministry of Health and Population, and has subsequently seen a substantial rise in in-hospital deliveries (red data points indicate months after the initiation of the SMP). This is only a fraction of the deliveries that [...]
Posted in News on Feb 28th, 2011
Brown Medicine Magazine has featured an article written by Nyaya’s Executive Director, Dan Schwarz. The article focuses on Nyaya’s central mission and the future of health systems strengthening in developing nations. You can read the article here. Tweet This Post
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jan 12th, 2011
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s Executive Director, Dan Schwarz, presented at the weekly Brown University Infectious Disease Rounds, discussing our HIV/AIDS management program in Achham. His talk was entitled “Meeting the need: Developing an HIV/AIDS treatment program in the Far West Region, Nepal.” You can view his slides here: ——————- Dan Schwarz is the Executive Director [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, News on Dec 29th, 2010
Posted by Dan Schwarz Nyaya’s Executive Director, Dan Schwarz, presented a talk at the Harvard School of Public Health recently. His talk was entitled, “Developing partnerships for improved global health delivery.” You can watch and listen to Dan’s presentations here. ——————- Dan Schwarz is the Executive Director of Nyaya Health and a student in the Brown [...]