Working towards Health Equity and Access in Rural Nepal
Posted in News on Jan 31st, 2012
Posted by Ryan Schwarz Nyaya Health was started by a group of Yale students 6 years ago. It began when one of our founders, Jason Andrews, traveled to the Achham region and learned about the dearth of healthcare in the region, and the injustices faced daily by Achhami citizens. Over the last six years our [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Oct 16th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz This month, Nyaya’s partner organization Partners In Health (PIH) released their Program Management Guide. This guide is a manual put together through the enormous work effort of their staff across the globe; it “offers a structured approach to starting a program, revamping an existing one, or expanding a site based on [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Oct 3rd, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz In September, an article was published in the well-respected journal Pediatrics entitled “Challenges in setting up pediatric and neonatal intensive care units in a resource-limited country” which detailed the planning, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of Patan Hospital’s neonatal and pediatric intensive care units (NICU and PICU). Patan Hospital is one of the leading [...]
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 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 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 [...]
Posted in Social Justice and Health on Jul 16th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz President and Co-founder of Nyaya Health Duncan Maru spoke recently at the Harvard Kennedy School about Nyaya’s work and challenges moving forward. Following his talk there was a panel discussion with Ryan Schwarz, Nyaya’s Director of Operations, and Bibhav Acharya, Nyaya’s Executive Vice-President. You can view Duncan’s talk here: ———————- Ryan [...]
Posted in News on Jun 8th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz On April 1st, The Nick Simons Foundation generously donated $25,000 to Nyaya and offered an additional matching donation of $75,000 more – the total donation, if Nyaya was able to raise $75,000 ourselves, would equal $175,000! I write today to announce that with your support Nyaya has not only reached that [...]
Posted in News, Social Justice and Health on Jun 3rd, 2011
posted by Ryan Schwarz Two months ago we announced the exciting $75,000 matching grant from the Nick Simons Foundation and set a goal of July 1st, 2011, to raise the full $75,000, generating a total of $150,000 for our patients in Achham. With a month to go we are on track to meet this goal, and [...]
Posted in News on Apr 4th, 2011
Dear friends and family, Donate today and every dollar you give to Nyaya will be doubled! Beginning today, The Nick Simons Foundation will match every donation up to $75,000. If you can support Nyaya, now is the time to do it! For example, if you give $100 to help our ambulance transport a critically ill [...]
Posted in Logistics and Management, Social Justice and Health on Feb 12th, 2011
Posted by Ryan Schwarz I’ve written before on this blog about the importance of collaboration in the global health field and Nyaya’s efforts to join with partner organizations to work towards the development of best practices for the field. To further pursue this aspect of our work, Nyaya is a member organization of Still Harbor’s [...]
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 on Jan 7th, 2011
posted by Ryan Schwarz Nyaya expresses its condolences and well wishes to the family of Thomas White, advisor and long-time member of Partners In Health, who passed away peacefully this morning. Thomas was an inspiring force to many in the global health field and the Nyaya team, and while he will be deeply missed, the [...]