Insights on International Collaborative Health
Stockpiling personal protective equipment. Mainstreaming telehealth. Suspending elective medical procedures. These are all part of “the new normal” of delivering health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. As health care administrators, providers and support staff everywhere grapple with these changes, Johns Hopkins has worked with the Bermuda Hospitals Board (BHB) to find ways to maintain constancy […]
By Nicole J. Rosson, M.H.A., and Heitham T. Hassoun, M.D. Over the past 20 years, leading academic medical centers and specialty care hospitals in the United States have entered into the global collaborative health care market. They care for international patients who travel to their institutions for medical treatment, which often is not available or […]
By Junaid Razzak, M.B.B.S, Ph.D. Medical emergencies — injuries, strokes, heart attacks and lung infections — caused about half of the world’s 28 million human deaths in 2015, with poorer nations bearing the bulk of the burden. This may surprise some readers because global health research traditionally focuses on primary care and disease prevention, leaving […]
By Manuel Peña-Morros The pain started when I fell about 12 years ago. I was a banker and was visiting a construction site for a project we were backing, and the platform I was on just collapsed. I lived with pain in my right leg on and off for a decade. I also play a […]
By Joelle Dorskind On the floor where I work in the preclinical teaching building at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, there are postdoctoral fellows from China, Israel and Portugal; graduate students from Canada, Germany and Taiwan; and technicians, faculty and others from all over the world. You can always find someone on the […]
By Abdulmohsen A. Al‐Mukhaild As the new chief operating officer (COO) at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare (JHAH), I help align the systems, staff and operations that shape our health system’s ability to meet patients’ needs, as well as their expectations. I was in Baltimore earlier this year to participate in a leadership development program Johns […]
By Pablo Celnik, M.D. Stroke is the third-leading cause of disability worldwide and a major cause of dementia and depression, according to the World Health Organization. Recovery from a stroke can take months or years, depending on the patient’s loss of functions. So my team from the Center of Excellence in Stroke Treatment, Recovery and […]
By Dr. Deanna Saylor Zambia has the world’s sixth-highest prevalence of HIV. And HIV/AIDS — often associated with neurological effects — continues to be the No. 1 cause of death in this southern African nation. Many of Zambia’s other top causes of death — malaria (No. 2), stroke (No. 5), meningitis (No. 7) and syphilis […]
By Shenandoah Robinson, M.D. Before I began treating Mohammad Almutairi, 9, he walked with a gait typical of patients with cerebral palsy. His muscles were shorter than those of a healthy child, and his hamstrings were tighter — they pulled him up on his toes and forced his legs to cross as he tried to […]
By Dr. Hugh Calkins Here at Johns Hopkins, we are blending engineering and cardiology to create more personalized approaches to diagnose and treat heart rhythm disorders. Leveraging innovations in cardiac imaging, computer simulations and data science could help us manage these disorders, which can lead to elevated risks of blood clots, stroke, dementia and death. […]
