Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
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 Social Justice and Health on Sep 16th, 2011
Posted by Astha Ramaiya ——————– Astha Ramaiya is the Blog Manager for Nyaya Health and a student pursuing her MSc Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Sep 8th, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru I have recently written about the problems we have had in getting consistent, high-quality data from Achham. I will not re-hash here the logistical problems we have had in getting data, but suffice it to say that, despite being an organization populated by a solid number of very data-minded individuals, a [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Sep 5th, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas ———————- Gregory Karelas is the country director of Nyaya Health. He has graduated with a MSc in Medical Anthropology. Tweet This Post
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Aug 30th, 2011
Posted by Pritam Shah I vividly remember the days when I used to walk past Bayalpata Hospital with wild bushes, ruined old buildings, and a herd of grazing cattle. I now contemplate on those memories when I recently visited Bayalpata Hospital. The hospital has transformed into a fully running hospital with landscaped grounds, painted buildings [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 24th, 2011
Posted by Gregory Karelas ———————- Gregory Karelas is the country director of Nyaya Health. He has graduated with a MSc in Medical Anthropology. Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management on Aug 21st, 2011
Posted by Duncan Maru In a speech recently on his government’s funding of the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunizations, British Prime Minister David Cameron’s delivered some welcome statements about the importance of transparency in global development aid [1]. Notably, all recipients of British foreign aid “must publish what they do, where they get their [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Aug 18th, 2011
Posted by Agya Poudyal Each week, over the Nyaya Health team list, both a hospital update and community health worker program update is sent for reflections. Although there has only been one weekly update published in the past, the blog team would like to increase the frequency of notes from Achham to inform readers about [...]
Posted in Clinic Staff on Aug 12th, 2011
Posted by Ranju Sharma —————— Ranju Sharma was previously the Program Coordinator at Bayalpata Hospital. She recently completed her BSc at Mount Holyoke and is currently a volunteer with Nyaya Health. Tweet This Post
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 Social Justice and Health on Aug 6th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Malnutrition is a critical health issue for children throughout Nepal, and in Achham where Nyaya works, nearly 1 in 5 children are qualified as malnourished. Bayalpata Hospital conducts a malnutrition screening and treatment program for all children who come to the hospital, and in the coming year will be expanding its [...]
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 Jul 24th, 2011
Posted by Ranju Sharma —————— Ranju Sharma was previously the Program Coordinator at Bayalpata Hospital. She recently completed her BSc at Mount Holyoke and is currently a volunteer with Nyaya Health. Tweet This Post
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Jul 21st, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Recently at the 2011 Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship, social justice leader Archbishop Desmond Tutu joined others for a panel discussion entitled Deep Leadership: Interior Dimensions of Large Scale Change (video here). The panel was filled with great lessons for all of us in the social justice and global health [...]