Empower Through Health
| Formation | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Founder |
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| Type | Healthcare Non-Governmental Organization |
| Legal status | 501(c)(3) |
| Location |
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Region served | Buyende District, Uganda |
| Website | https://ethealth.org |
Empower Through Health (ETH) is organized as a global partnership between the US-based 501©3 nonprofit organization and the Ugandan-based NGO. [1][2] It improves healthcare for underserved communities. It operates Mpunde Health Center in Mpunde village in Buyende District of Uganda and collaborates with the Ugandan Ministry of Health to conduct public health interventions for the surrounding catchment population of 70,000 people.[3] ETH also works with students from different universities in Uganda and America to provide platforms to build careers in global health advocacy, practice, and leadership.[4] The goal of the organization is to become a “Global Health Institute where extraordinary challenges in global health can be addressed through interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration.”[5]
History
ETH was founded in 2018, and the following year was spent conducting needs assessments, raising funds, and recruiting staff and volunteers.[6] After assessing the most underserved region of the Busoga region in Uganda, Mpunde, a village in Buyende District, was selected as the site for the Mpunde Health Center. Mpunde Health Center opened its doors in October 2018, and since then has served tens of thousands of patients providing outpatient, inpatient, and maternity services while partnering with the government to administer public health interventions such as immunizations. Since 2018, ETH has also published peer-reviewed articles on Ugandan healthcare.[7][8][9][10]
Global Fellowships
In 2020, ETH established the Global Leaders Fellowship to provide self-directed undergraduate students with a unique leadership opportunity to help develop grassroots Empower Through Health ‘Chapters’ at their universities.[11] Chapters enable students to participate longitudinally and sustainably in ETH projects. Students in each chapter learn about a specific ETH project, and chapters work to increase global health awareness on campus, educate peers on global health issues, and raise funds for the chapter’s specific ETH project.
In 2021, ETH established the Global Health Experiential Fellowship, which provides both Ugandan and American students the opportunity to work collaboratively on helping evaluate, educate, or implement a portion of their chapter’s project. ETH's program is unique in that it provides both students from low-income countries and high-income countries with equivalent learning opportunities, with students from high-income countries paying a tuition and students from low-income countries participating for free.
References
- ↑ "From Tower Grove dream to reality: Wash U med students open clinic in rural Uganda". St. Louis Public Radio. 2018-12-31. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- ↑ Health, Empower Through (2018-10-22). "The Origins of ETH: An Interview with Co-Founder and CEO Jae Lee". ETH. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- ↑ "2019 Annual Report". ETH. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- ↑ "Global Health Institute". ETH. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- ↑ "Empower Through Health". ETH. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- ↑ "Get to Know the 2018 GIA Finalists: Empower Through Health". Skandalaris Center for Interdisciplinary Innovation and Entrepreneurship | Washington University in St. Louis. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
- ↑ Delaney, Peter G.; Bamuleke, Richard; Lee, Yang Jae (August 2018). "Lay First Responder Training in Eastern Uganda: Leveraging Transportation Infrastructure to Build an Effective Prehospital Emergency Care Training Program". World Journal of Surgery. 42 (8): 2293–2302. doi:10.1007/s00268-018-4467-3. ISSN 1432-2323. PMID 29349487. Unknown parameter
|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ Lee, Yang Jae; Adusumilli, Gautam; Kazungu, Rauben; Anywar, Godwin; Kyakulaga, Francis; Katuura, Esther; Parikh, Shanti; Willcox, Merlin (2019-05-29). "Treatment-seeking behavior and practices among caregivers of children aged ≤5 y with presumed malaria in rural Uganda". Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 113 (9): 525–533. doi:10.1093/trstmh/trz039. ISSN 1878-3503. PMID 31140566.
- ↑ Lee, Yang Jae; Adusumilli, Gautam; Kyakulaga, Francis; Muwereza, Peter; Kazungu, Rauben; Blackwell, Timothy Scott; Saenz, Jose; Schubert, Moonkyung Cho (June 2019). "Survey on the prevalence of dyspepsia and practices of dyspepsia management in rural Eastern Uganda". Heliyon. 5 (6): e01644. doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01644. ISSN 2405-8440. PMC 6580192 Check
|pmc=value (help). PMID 31338438. - ↑ Delaney, Peter G.; Eisner, Zachary J.; Blackwell, T. Scott; Ssekalo, Ibrahim; Kazungu, Rauben; Lee, Yang Jae; Scott, John W.; Raghavendran, Krishnan (January 2021). "Exploring the factors motivating continued Lay First Responder participation in Uganda: a mixed-methods, 3-year follow-up". Emergency Medicine Journal: EMJ. 38 (1): 40–46. doi:10.1136/emermed-2020-210076. ISSN 1472-0213. PMID 33127741 Check
|pmid=value (help). Unknown parameter|s2cid=ignored (help) - ↑ "Global Health Fellowships". ETH. Retrieved 2021-03-16.
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