annual report ’06-’07OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

pictured: China skyline.

a message fromANN C. DEBALDO

ASSOCIATE VP, INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMSUSF HEALTH AND ASSOCIATE DEAN,INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS, COPH

IN EDUCATION:� Supporting training, study abroadtours, and conferences for healthprofessionals in Panama.

� Helping reform medical education inthe Central Asian Republics withCollege of Public Health (COPH) andCollege of Medicine (COM) facultyand staff, with a USAID grant throughthe American International HealthAlliance. Seven medical academies inKazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan andTajikistan participated from 2003 – 2006to help their medical institutions preparegraduates to meet the health care needsof their populations.

� Facilitating the live telecast of aninaugural in-utero fetal surgery fromTampa General Hospital to Moscow,Russia, under the direction of theDivision of Maternal and FetalMedicine, COM.

� Completing the Masters of Public Healthdegree in Global Health Informatics forseven Indian students, a unique 2 yearendeavor between USF’s COPH and theInternational Institute of InformationTechnology (I2IT) in Pune, India. Withindays of graduation, four of the sevenstudents obtained IT/health-related jobs.

� Facilitating public health trainingworkshops for 61 graduating healthprofessionals from Venezuela throughthe University of Carabobo.

Dr. Donna J. Petersen,Dean, College of Public

Health at the video-linked public health

graduation withthe University of

Carabobo Venezuela.

Dr. Stephen Klasko,Vice President forUSF Health; Dean,

College of Medicine withProfessor Dr. Mohd Azib

Salleh, Deputy ViceChancellor at

UNIMAS, Malaysia.

USF Provost Renu Khatorwith Dr. Salleh fromUNIMAS, Malaysia.

we are making a difference…� Publicizing and promoting such uniquetraining opportunities as the annualacademic and field study with COPHstudents in the Dominican Republic;MPH student participation in theInternational Scholar LaureateProgram delegation to South Africa;and working with the Family andCommunity Health Area in thePan American Health Organization(PAHO) in Washington D.C. and itsmissions in Brazil, Ecuador andNicaragua.

� Exploring establishing a school ofNursing in Ghana (by Dr. AfriyieJohnson).

� Collaborating with health educatorsin Belize and the US (COBEC) topromote health education and facultyand student exchange.

� Promoting Sustainable Development atthe Fulbright Academy of Science andTechnology Conference in Panamawhere Dr. Ann DeBaldo presented herIndia Fulbright experience.

� Overseeing and supporting studentassociations—the International HealthService Collaborative’s educationalactivities and joint projects with theGlobal Health Students Association.

� Co-sponsoring a wide range of publiceducation events (see page 4, USFHEALTH CAMPUS EVENTS).

Learning in the Field – Facilitating International Field Experiencesfor Public Health students in India, Brazil, Tanzania, El Salvador, Germany andGeneva, Switzerland, and with two group placements in Panama and Ecuador,both unique and successful. Samantha Choudhury, one of those in Ecuador,said, “I feel incredibly fortunate to have been granted this opportunity . . tosatisfy so many interests—the chance to put our classroom knowledge to workat the Ministry of Health, getting our ‘hands dirty’ in the clinical setting, andtaking an active role in field research. These activities . . . serve as an amazingculminating experience for the last 2 years of my coursework at the Collegeof Public Health.” We celebrated the Panama returnees’ experiences in aspecial Panama debriefing session, with special guest speaker Betty Castor,Executive Director of the Kiran C. Patel Center for Global Solutions.

USF Health’s International ProgramsOffice, into our second year, has

greatly expanded the global reachof health education, research, and

development initiatives at theColleges of Medicine, Nursing,

Public Health and School ofPhysical Therapy and RehabilitationSciences at USF. We have worked

with USF Health Colleges andpartner institutions to build oninternational opportunities for

students and faculty: • tackling suchmutual health challenges as

emerging infectious diseases,environmental degradation,

disasters, changing patterns ofchronic disease, and health

disparities • encouragingcollaboration across the USF

campus and combining cross- andmulti-disciplinary health and

science approaches • working withcommunities to tackle root causes

of existing problems and toimprove health around the world.

We welcome your comments, ideasand involvement! Please contact us atinternationalprograms@health.usf.edu

or 813- 974-6731

IN RESEARCH:� Identifying research resources andlinkages for faculty and students withinternational collaborators.

� As part of the International CooperativeBiodiversity Groups Project, Dr. DennisKyle’s research program tackled suchserious neglected diseases as malariaand leishmaniasis. Luis Ureña andCOPH student T. Mutka assisted withmolecular biological analysis, with theInstituto de Investigaciones CientíficasAvanzadas y Servicios de altaTecnología (INDICASAT).

� Research among five countries onHelicobacter pylori (H Pylori) infection,an emerging disease with one strainleading to gastric cancer in many easterncountries. Tadahiro Sasaki, visitingdoctoral student and Dr. YoshimasaYamamoto from Osaka University inJapan, worked with Dr. Ricardo Izurieta(Global Health) on this epidemiologicalstudy, along with 7 COPH students.

� Building the USF Health Panama officeand its academic and research endeavors,such as Drs. Arlene Calvo and AnnaGiuliano’s study of sociocultural factorsaffecting HPV Prevalence.

� Participating in Indo-US collaborationin environmental and occupationalhealth, facilitating research critical tothe US and India.

� Presenting a collaborative study byUSF COM and the Infectious DiseasesClinic of Ahmedabad, India on TB

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The late Dr. SocratesFrancis with Dr. John

Sinnott solidifyingpartnerships in the

Dominican Republic.

Lifetime Achievement Award presented to Dr. Sinnott in Tampa fromThe AIDS Institute, for “Longtime Dedication to HIV/AIDS Prevention,

Treatment, and Research in the United States and Internationally”presented by USF’s Dr. Gene Copello, Executive Director of The AIDS Institute.

� Coordinating the Master’sInternational Peace Corps Program–As one of 50 US universities offeringthe program, USF’s COPH combinesPeace Corps service with graduatestudies. Two students are now in thefield–in Ecuador and in Kenya–working in health, communitydevelopment and environment.

� Providing emergency medical responseassessments for five cities in Colombia,Guatemala, Belize and El Salvador byDr. Westhoff, Global Health, withseveral students participating in thefield work. Funded by the SouthernCommand and the Dept. of Defense,the project resulted in these countriesrevising their emergency operation plans.

� Assessing health promotion andprevention interventions amongmilitary personnel in the ColombianArmed Forces, by Drs. Westhoff, Izurietaand Ochoa, along with studentsparticipating in the field research.

� Publicizing and promoting student-ledinitiatives, such as the InternationalHealth Service Collaborative’s programin La Sabana, Dominican Republicin which thirty-five students from allfour USF Health disciplines workedalongside local community membersto build latrines and chicken coops.

� Continuing to support public health inIndia, breaking new ground for its firstInstitute of Public Health, sponsoringMPH training for new faculty.

Spearheaded by Michael Churton in USF College of Education, USF Health co-hosted the visiting high leveldelegation from the University of Malaysia –Sarawak (UNIMAS) to promote continued academic/research exchangesof faculty and doctoral students across USF-UNIMAS campuses. They also discussed a proposed USF-UNIMASResearch Center based at UNIMAS. These opportunities covered such public health issues as SARS, Avian Flu, Malaria,Dengue, Parasitic Infections, HIV/AIDS. The delegation visitors were also featured panelists at the Society for AppliedAnthropologist’s conference in Tampa, addressing Social and Public Health Issues in Borneo. The relationship withUNIMAS began in 2000 with two USF Fulbright scholars in Malaysia, followed by funding through a US Dept of StateEducational partnership for mutual training and research exchange in area studies, public health and special education.

co-infection at the 4th IAS Conferenceon HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment andPrevention in Australia.

� Researching the “Brain Drain” ofhealth and medical professionals fromthe Philippines, Ecuador and Jamaica,by Drs. Corvin, Westhoff and Izurieta,and COPH students, along withAnthropology faculty.

IN DEVELOPMENT, SERVICEAND GLOBAL OUTREACH:� Developing an international servicelearning unit in the School of PhysicalTherapy and Rehabilitation Sciences.

� Establishing an Advisory Group of seniorpublic health professionals from LatinAmerica to help guide COPH on themost useful and strategic education,research, service and outreach initiativesin Latin America. Emphasizing lowbudget, simple, practical training andexchange, the areas of applied fieldepidemiology, changing mortality trendsand emerging chronic diseases, infectiousand tropical diseases, health throughoutthe lifespan and especially reproductivehealth, violence, and programimplementation and managementemerged as primary focus areas.

� Convening the USF Health LocalAdvisory Board meeting in Panamawith representatives from the GorgasMemorial Institute, University ofPanama Colleges of Medicine, Nursingand Public Health, Secretariat of Scienceand Technology, City of Knowledge.

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Dr. Boo H. Kwa, Chair,Department ofGlobal Health.

MPH students KomalD’Souza with Dr. Menezesand Karina D’Souza withtheir HPV poster at theAmerican Public Health

Association meetings 2006.

Dr. Sandra V. Cadena,College of Nursing

Director, Global Healthand Assistant Dean,

Undergraduate Studiesin Panama, 2007 (frontrow, right) with StudyAbroad participants.

USF HEALTH HIGHLIGHTS IN:PanamaThrough its unique Panama Office, USFHealth is leading in health research andacademic entrepreneurship, maintainingits collaboration with The City ofKnowledge Foundation, Gorgas MemorialResearch Institute, University of PanamaSchool of Nursing and Panamá’sNational Secretariat of Science andTechnology; supporting initiatives inLatin America in 2006-2007:

� Co-Sponsoring courses: SocialMarketing Workshop, with COPHfaculty Drs. Carol Bryant, KelliMcCormack Brown and Arlene Calvoco-sponsored by PAHO; Introductionto Good Clinical Practice Seminar forclinical researchers; the secondSpanish language Immersion programfor USF students, staff and faculty.

� Practice/experience: Study abroadprogram – Dr. Sandra Cadena led thesecond annual Community Health

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1 MPH students in the Executive Public Health Practice Programin their field experience program in Panama, with EmberáIndian community residents. 2 Mother & child at the maternityclinic in Panama. 3 Panama waterfall. 4 Shendong University,China. 5 Drs. DeBaldo and Crummett at Beijing UnionUniversity, China. 6 COPH student in Dominican Republic.7 James Tucker and Dr. Ricardo Izurieta at the equator inEcuador. 8 COPH students Autum Bowen and JessicaMurphy in health interviews in Ecuador.

Preparing for Overseas TravelUSF Health promotes global health not only for those around the world, but also forfaculty, staff and students traveling abroad for study, research or service. The USF COMOffice of International Affairs launched a new website for both USF medical studentsand health professionals around the world, featuring a travel podcast developed byDr. John Sinnott at http://health.usf.edu/medicine/ia/ as well as Travel Medicine forthe Clinician – available at http://health.usf.edu/intprog/ resources.htm under travel.International Programs also produced the CD “Travel Advice for International Healthprofessionals Going Abroad” for those traveling with limited internet access, andupdated our Travel Checklist at http://health.usf.edu/ intprog/checklist.htm andwebsite travel advice at http://health.usf.edu/intprog/resources.htm.

GOING ABROAD

This is a resource for traveling international health professionals, based on a range of travelers’experiences and of international resources. You as a traveler have limited time to preparefor your forthcoming trip. But you also want to cover as many of your needs as possible inadvance. Please review these items, before, during and following your experience.

Before You Go� Make sure you have up-to-date and vital U.S. government international travel information

at the U.S. State Department’s International Travel page.� Review current travel warnings for your country(ies), available at the U.S. State

Department Current Travel Warnings page.� If you are going on a Study Abroad program, see USF Study Abroad Student Checklist.

course for USF nursing studentsin May-June, 2007 along withDr. Versie Johnson-Mallard; COPHInternational Field Experiences withsix public health students in a rangeof Panama institutions, supported bythe International Field ExperienceCounselor; Executive Public HealthPractice Program with nine Mastersin Public Health students (mainlymid-career professionals fromFlorida—dentists, physicians, mentalhealth, occupational health andhealth education specialists) in anintensive field experience program ina range of health care settings;

� Delegations: With a strong interestin water issues, Betty Castor,Executive Director of the Dr. KiranC. Patel Center for GlobalSolutions, Dr. Mark Amen andDr. Thomas Crisman, Patel Professorof Environment met with the USFHealth Panama Office and others;along with Jay Evans, COPHAssociate Dean for Finance andAdministration. Dr. Sandra Cadenaparticipated in Tampa Bay’s PanamaOutbound Trade Mission.

� Research projects: NIH fundedgrants in Panama: Dr. Dennis Kyle,International CollaborativeBiodiversity Discovery Group(ICBG), researches malaria; Drs.Arlene Calvo and Anna Giulianostudy sociocultural factors affectingHPV Prevalence.

Dominican RepublicHealth promotion in the DominicanRepublic with Fundación FamiliaSana and Drs. Wayne Westhoff andJaime Corvin through an annualacademic and field study (GlobalHealth Challenges) with COPHstudents undertaking community-basedwork, participating in a train the trainerprogram and working side-by-side withcommunity partners to implementhealth education programs.

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Dr. María Crummett,Dean of International

Affairs, in China.

Dr. LynetteMenezes, Directorof International Programs,Division of Infectious Disease& InternationalMedicinewithDr.Miguel J. Escala, President

Instituto Tecnológico deSanto Domingo (INTEC),

Dominican Republic.

Dr. Paul Farmer withJane Mai, President,International Health

Service Collaborative,following his talk

on Social Justice andGlobal Health Equity.

� Visiting Los Mina Hospital withthe then FL Secretary of HealthDr. Rony Francois’ delegation toidentify potential Florida technicalassistance in training healthprofessionals. Dr. DeBaldo also metwith Autonomous University ofSanto Domingo, PAHO and USAIDrepresentatives to explore collaborativeeducational and research programs.

� Dr. Salvador B. Gautier Hospitalsent Visiting Infectious DiseaseFellow, Yasmin Guzman, for aclinical rotation and trainingsessions on Infectious Diseaseswith the College of Medicine.

China� Dr. Rongzhu Lu, Department ofPreventive Medicine, JiangsuUniversity School of Medicinediscussed opportunities for researchand academic collaboration withJiangsu University, as well asworkplace illness and injuriesin China, and occupationalhealth legislation.

� Dean of USF International Affairs(María Crummett) and AssociateDean for International Programs(Ann DeBaldo) visited Chineseuniversities such as Peking Universityand Tsinghua University in Beijing,reinforcing USF’s longstanding activeexchange agreement with NankaiUniversity. Increased collaborationsin educational exchange, researchand development with Chineseinstitutions are providingopportunities for faculty and studentsand the internationalization of USFand USF Health. USF is applying fora Confucius Institute designationwhich, if successful, would supportactivities with Chinese partners.

India� Dr. Bobby Joseph, St. John’s MedicalCollege in Bangalore, met with USFHealth departments and students,

summarizing St. John’s practicalapproach to managing disasters inthe region. Dr. Joseph also coveredSt. John’s extensive out-patienttreatment and rural health educationinterventions, improving health careindicators and quality primary healthcare delivery in tea and coffee estates.

� USF Health received 1.36 milliondollars from NIH Fogarty to helptrain Indian health care professionalsin Adolescent HIV/AIDS research.Dr. Patricia Emmanuel, PrincipalInvestigator, Pediatrics, will workwith Co-Principal Investigators, Drs.Eknath Naik and Shyam Mohapatra,Internal Medicine, COM as well asother collaborators— Dr. RicardoIzurieta (Global Health, COPH),Drs. Dianne Straub, Todd Wills andLynette Menezes, COM, and withIndian partners, Dr. Yogesh Marfatia(Vadodara Medical College, Gujarat,India ), and Dr. Atul Patel (InfectiousDisease Center, Gujarat). The grantis to build a unique, state-of-the-arttraining infrastructure with VadodaraMedical College for HIV/AIDSTraining in India and at USF.

� US and India physicians taught the6th Annual HIV/AIDS Intensivetwo week course in Ahmedabad.Eleven physicians from rural areas inIndia learned principles of HIVmanagement along with the newestdevelopments in HIV treatment andprevention, gaining cutting edgemedical, scientific and psychosocialinformation through instructionalmethodology geared to their needsand context.

� The 6th Annual Update onHIV/AIDS, also co-hosted inAhmedabad in 2007 by USF facultyand physicians from India, assembledmore than 250 HIV physicians fromall over India; over 2000 physiciansfrom India have participated in theAnnual Updates since 2002.

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USF HEALTH CAMPUS EVENTSHelping to coordinate forty publicpresentations with more than 2,000participants.

� India Unveiled: A Journey into theHeart and Soul of a Nation withRobert Arnett

� Water-borne diseases: a globalperspective from UNESCO withDr. Carlos Fernandez-Jauregui,UNESCO

� USF College of Nursing in Panamawith nursing students featuring theirstudy abroad experiences

� Research Opportunities at the Cityof Knowledge with Dr. Rodrigo Tarté,Director of Academic Area, City ofKnowledge, Panama

� Health and Immigration, part of theAnnual Congress of the FloridaImmigrant Coalition: From Mobilizingto Organizing: Social Movements forHealthy Communities (with 200 Florida-wide participants)

� Maternal Health and Women inAfghanistan with Dr. Moussada Jalal,former Afghanistan Interim Minister of

Dr. William Quillen,Professor and Director,

School of Physical Therapy& Rehabilitation Sciences

and Associate Dean,College of Medicine.

Drs. DeBaldo and Calvo with International FieldExperience (IFE) Public Health students HarleeBustamante, Jenny Blanco, Ariel Ansley, IFE

Counselor Linda Rodriguez, IFE students KathySpencer and Laura Kennedy in Panama.

Women’s Affairs by video and withAnne Richter, international maternaland child health programs specialist, co-sponsored by Tampa Bay UNA-USA

� The U. S., Nigeria and Africa withH.E. Professor George A. Obiozor,Nigerian Ambassador to the US

� Healthcare in Colombia with DeanRita Cecilia Plata De Silva, El BosqueUniversity, Bogota; comparing USand Colombian nursing educationand healthcare.

� 2 COPH Networking Job Fairs,opportunities for students to learnabout international healthemployment

� Global Health and Education withDr. John LeSar, USF Department ofGlobal Health, Dean Rita CeciliaPlata de Silva, Universidad El Bosque,Colombia, Ms. Angelia Sanders,United States Peace Corps, TamaniAfrica and USF Global Health

� International Health: NewDevelopments, New Challenges withkeynote speaker Dr. Vilma Vega,Director of Clinical Research,Infectious Disease Associates, Center

for Clinical Studies and Dr. JohnSinnott, USF COM.

� Working In Health & Developmentin Other Countries with Dr. WilliamWard, COPH, at LECOM School ofMedicine, Bradenton, Florida

� America’s forgotten Ambassadors,a panel about wars’ impact on USsoldiers, sponsored with UNA-USATampa Bay

� Girl Mothers and their Children inNorthern Uganda, Sierra Leone, andLiberia: Challenges of Reintegration,with Dr. Susan McKay, University ofWyoming.

� Tropical medicine, with Dr. JavierMarinez, Fellow in the Division ofInfectious Disease and InternationalMedicine, at LECOM School ofMedicine

� Juan Bosch Global Health Lecture:Emerging Diseases in the Americaswith Dr. Eduardo Gotuzzo, Director,Alexander von Humboldt Instituteof Tropical Medicine and the GorgasCourse in Clinical Tropical Medicine,Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia,Lima, Peru, co-sponsored with ISLAC.

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1 Latin American Advisory committee with the Collegeof Public Health, from left: Dra. Patricia Gassibe Klarián,Administración Médica, Chile; Dr. Heather G. Stockwell Chair,Epi & Biostat., Dr. DeBaldo, Dr. Donna J. Petersen, Dr. CarlosCastillo -Salgado, PAHO; Dr. Edgar Navarro, Universidad delNorte, Colombia (in front), Dr. Karen D. Liller, Associate Dean,Academic Affairs, COPH, Dr. Marcelo Jaquenod, Argentina,Dr. Calvo, Dr. Otaliba Libanio de Morais, Ministério deSalud de Brasil, Dra. Virginia Moscoso Arriaza, Guatemala,Dr. Ricardo Izurieta, Department of Global Health.2 Dr. Rony Francois meeting with Haitian Prime MinisterJacques- Édouard Alexis. 3 IHSC in Dominican Republic

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� Paul Farmer meeting the students,An informal Question & Answersession; and Social justice and GlobalHealth Equity with Dr. Paul Farmer,physician, medical anthropologist,author and activist.

� Assisting in Healthy Together, anew Tampa-based global initiative,in collaboration with the PatelFoundation for Global Understanding.

� Social & Public Health Issues inBorneo: environmental, economicand societal changes and globalizationin Borneo and Malaysia, featuring thedelegation from the University ofMalaysia-Sarawak.

� Lost Boys of Sudan, Documentarywith commentary by refugeeAbraham Awolich.

� Nightingale to Climate Change,with Dr. Lynn Mcdonald, sociologist,University of Guelph.

� A Closer Walk, IHSC and AMSA-sponsored documentary on HIV/AIDS.

� Traditional Medicines of Borneo; andLand and Human Rights Violations,both with Nicholas Bawin Anggat,

IFE Students in Ecuador to assistwith H Pylori research.

USF Health Officein Panama: AracelyQuintero, Panama

Program Manager andDr. Arlene Calvo, Director.

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President of the Sarawak Dayak NationalUnion [of indigenous people], Malaysia.

� Public Health Opportunities inPanama, Betty Castor & COPH(International Field Experience)students.

� International Business Summit,Display of USF Health InternationalPrograms.

� CON Students’ Community andClinical Health Study AbroadExperience in Panama.

� Public Health Education and Researchin Jiangsu University: Opportunitiesfor International collaboration; andReducing workplace illness andinjuries in China: Occupational healthlegislation and risk communicationboth with Dr. Rongzhu Lu.

� Outreach Programs in CommunityMedicine in South India and onDisaster Recovery Efforts in theAndaman Islands after the Tsunami2005; Opportunities in working inCommunity Health in India; andCommunity Outreach in South India,each with Dr. Bobby Joseph,St. John’s Medical College, India.

NEW FORMALOVERSEAS LINKAGES:COLOMBIALa Universidad el Bosque, Bogotáwith the College of Nursing.

DOMINICAN REPUBLICPoliclínico La Vega, S.A, with Divisionof Infectious Disease and InternationalMedicine, College of Medicine.

Instituto Tecnológico de SantoDomingo (INTEC), Santo Domingo,with International Affairs, Collegeof Medicine.

INDIAMedical College and Sir SayajiraoGeneral Hospital and her Faculty ofMedicine at The Maharaja SayajiraoUniversity of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujaratwith the Division of EmergencyMedicine, College of Medicine.

PANAMANational Secretariat of Science andTechnology (SENACYT) with USFHealth and International Affairs.

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4 Seated: C. Prist; From left: Drs.Castro, (Academic Sub-Directorof the City of Knowledge [CoK])Arosemena (executive director of theCoK), Castor (executive director ofthe Dr. Kiran C. Patel Center forGlobal Solutions), T. Crisman (PatelProfessor of Environment), DeBaldo,M. Amen, A. Calvo, Jay Evans, IsabelDonato [CoK] staff and Drs. Tarté(CoK Academic Director) and Darwish(General Secretary for the Center ofInternational Sustainable Development).5 Ariel Ansley, MPH student inPanama, working with DNA and RNAextraction and with protein analysisfor Hantavirus with the InstitutoCommemorativo Gorgas de Estudiasde la Salud. 6 Jessica Freilechdigging a latrine pit.

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS WORKING GROUP:Dr. Ann DeBaldo, Associate Vice President, International Programs, USF Health and Associate Dean, International Programs,COPH; Dr. Sandra V. Cadena, College of Nursing, Director, Global Health and Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Studies; Dr. JohnT. Sinnott, Co-Director, USF Health Signature Research Program, Allergy, Immunology, and Infectious Disease, Associate Dean,International Affairs, James A. Cullison Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Infectious Disease, Director, InfectiousDisease Fellowship Program; Dr. Boo H. Kwa, Professor and Chair, Department of Global Health; Dr. Lynette Menezes, Director,International Programs and Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Disease & International Medicine; Dr. William S. Quillen,Professor and Director, School of Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Sciences and Associate Dean, College of Medicine; Dr.María Crummett, Dean of International Affairs, USF; Ms. Jane Mai, MPH, President, International Health Service Collaborative,Medical Student Class of 2010

STAFF SUPPORT: Susan James, Coordinator

PANAMA: Dr. Arlene Calvo, Director, USF Health Office in Panama and Aracely Quintero, Panama Program Manager

CONTACT US:Office of International Programs, USF HealthUniversity of South Florida • 13201 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., MDC56 • Tampa, FL 33612-3805tel: 813-974-6731 • fax: 813-974-6616 • e-mail: internationalprograms@health.usf.eduUSF Health website: http://www.hsc.usf.edu/intprog/index.htmlCOPH international website: http://publichealth.usf.edu/cophinternational/

You can also make a difference with your gift to:USF Health Development • 813-974-3676 • http://hsc.usf.edu/development/

spotlight on Dr. Paul Farmer

Inspiring StudentsDr. Paul Farmer, internationally noted physician, author and activist,spoke at USF Health about his mission to bring free health care topeople affected by poverty and diseases throughout the world. Asco-founder of Partners in Health, he highlighted their HIV/AIDS work inHaiti and Rwanda, and the efforts to provide free medical and socialsupport to impoverished people with the disease. USF Public Healthstudent Jane Mai commented, “Discovering how one man’s persistenceand compassion [has] impacted millions of lives reminded me that it isall possible, and that fighting for human rights is not an option butrather our moral responsibility.” Partners in Health (PIH) began as asmall clinic in the middle of a squatter settlement in Haiti. Today, PIHworks in eight other Haitian sites and in five other countries treatingpeople with such diseases as tuberculosis and HIV. It has also workedwith communities here and abroad and with Congress to promote healthas a human right, helping to build a movement to fight for health andsocial justice. This special USF Health presentation was in collaborationwith the University Lecture Series (ULS), with strong support fromthe Global Health Students Association and the International HealthService Collaborative, along with assistance from the Departments ofAnthropology and of Global Health, COPH, the Division of InfectiousDisease & International Medicine, the Patel Center for Global Solutionsand the Patel Foundation for Global Understanding.