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| Brock Bierman, representing the United States Agency for International Development, presents Dr. John R. Petersen with the President's Lifetime Service Award as part of a ceremony honoring 34 Milwaukee area doctors, dentists, nurses, pharmacists and nutritional specialists for their work with CIH. All the awards were issued by the President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation on behalf of the President of the United States to recognize the best in American spirit and to encourage all Americans to work towards improving communities around the world through volunteer service and civic participation. |
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| These represent multi-year projects addressing health systems development and encompass institutional capacity building, health professions training and commodities procurement. Poland Pre-hospital Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Development EMS demonstration project restructuring existing Soviet model ambulance service to provide improved care for major trauma and critical medical conditions. Republic of Georgia Two separate awards for Primary Health Care/Healthy Communities Development Projects in the Mtskheta-Mtianeti and Shida Kartli-Gori Regions Training of family physicians, family health nurses and public health/general dentists; restructuring of existing Soviet model polyclinic multi-specialty system of primary care; development of community hypertension services; and the establishment of demonstration family medicine clinics and regional family medicine and primary care nursing training centers. Republic of Armenia Rural Primary Care Physicians and Nurses Training Retraining of primary care physicians and nurses from rural health centers, Lori Marz in family medicine and primary care nursing; training of trainers; establishment of primary care training center. |
| MILWAUKEE-BASED TRAINING EXAMPLES These represent short-term projects organized and conducted from the CIH offices with the extensive participation of consortium members. Albania - Dentistry training Antigua - Nutrition training Bahamas - Hospital management training Bangladesh - Medical library training Barbados - Nursing training Barbados - Hospital materials and management training Barbados - Medical records training Bosnia and Croatia - Counseling for victims of war and torture training Colombia - Psychiatric training Cyprus - Nursing administration training Egypt - Anesthesiology training Egypt - Biostatistics and clinical epidemiology training Egypt - Radiation oncology equipment training Guatemala - Health promotion and disease prevention training Indonesia - Pulmonary disease training Jordan - Hospital management training Kenya - Financial planning and management of health services training Lithuania - Alcohol and substance abuse counseling and treatment training Malawi - Health information technology management training Malaysia - Public health and preventative medicine training Malaysia - Hospital financing management training Nassau - Dental equipment training Tanzania - HIV/AIDS and STD education and prevention training Zimbabwe - Medical records training |
| IN - COUNTRY TRAINING EXAMPLES These represent short-term projects organized and conducted in-country with the extensive participation of in-country governmental, international and NGO agencies. Malawi District Level Primary Health Care Intersectoral Planning and Action Fostering coordination and community participation to improve primary health care (PHC) by involving such sectors as agriculture, animal husbandry, food, water supply, education and adult literacy, public works and industry. Zimbabwe Health Sciences Information and Library Management Training medical librarians in the management dissemination of health sciences information with the aim of improving district hospital medical libraries. Guatemala HIV Education and Prevention Training of health promoters and community health workers in basic HIV/AIDS knowledge and providing skills and techniques for dissemination this information in their communities. |