Our Results
The Global Health Initiative collaborates with universities, hospitals, training schools, and more than 25 villages in Ghana, West Africa, with requests to expand its reach and its programs across the nation and into other countries.
The GHI now benefits more than 25,000 residents, addressing issues such as:
Medical and Public Health
Disease: reduced transmission of Rotavirus and other infectious disease; early identification and treatment of Malaria.- Clean Water: increased supply and treatment.
- Sanitation: education, infrastructure development, toilets, and sewage facility.
Education
- Increasing access to education for girls and boys through community-constructed schools, training current and prospective teachers, and expanding adult literacy.
Economic Development
- Addressing poverty through enterprise credit, agricultural cooperatives, entrepreneurial capacity-building.
Reducing "Brain Drain"
By working with in-country hospital and university staff to provide long term training and create medical residencies, the GHI not only builds the capacity of rural communities to directly meet health care needs but fights against "brain drain" to keep rural doctors practicing where the need is greatest. Fifteen programs are currently in place in Kumasi, Ghana, including Anesthesiology, Neurology, Social Work and Pathology. At the same time University of Utah enhances the capacity of its faculty and the breath of the experience for its students, faculty and doctors.
Replicating the Model
The success of the model begun in and around Kumasi, Ghana has led to requests for its implementation in locations across that country as well as for the establishment of new programs in Asia and requests for expansion in other regions around the world. The most recent programs under development include partnerships in Gujarat, India, working with MS University and Shakti Kupra Charitable Trust in the rural village of Mota Fofalia, near Vadodara, India and the Hainan Medical College and Provincial Government in Haikou, China.
The Global Health Initiative, along with in-country leaders and philanthropic partners, now has the opportunity to apply its proven collaborative model of health, education, and economic improvement and sustainability to touch the lives of thousands of people who are without access to the most basic services.
In Ghana, the partnership called the Barekuma Collaborative Community Development Project (BCCDP), later referred to as part of the Ghana-Utah Connection (GhUC), produced a summary of our 2009 achievements. Please download Ghana BCCDP 2009 Annual Report (PDF).
