IU-Led Health Network Expands to Mexico, Ghana
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Indiana University is expanding a health program to include new locations in Ghana and Mexico. IU says the partnership, now known as the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare, will launch two new sites based on the success of the program over the past three decades in Kenya.
The university says AMPATH, which began as a collaboration between the IU School of Medicine and Moi University School of Medicine and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kenya, has grown into a global health partnership working to address the HIV epidemic, infrastructure needs, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
“AMPATH’s mission is to improve the health of people in underserved communities by working in partnership with academic health centers, ministries of health and others to build public-sector health systems and promote well-being,” said Dr. Adrian Gardner, executive director of the AMPATH Consortium of academic health centers and associate dean for global health at the IU School of Medicine. “AMPATH leads with care by delivering and sustaining effective health care services in a way that also supports training and research to improve health.”
With the new partner sites, IU says it will serve as secretariat for the AMPATH Global network, providing administrative and regulatory support, coordinating the exchange of ideas and personnel, and monitoring and evaluating AMPATH as a whole.
“AMPATH has provided an opportunity for both Kenyans and North Americans to improve care and deliver training and research opportunities that are mutually beneficial to all members of the partnership, as well as the populations we serve,” said Dr. Paul Ayuo, AMPATH replication ambassador from Moi University. “We look forward with great anticipation to building those same benefits with our colleagues in Ghana and Mexico.”
Other members of the program include Brown University, Duke University, and Johns Hopkins University, among others.