Ghana

Projects

A sister school partnership with the Kumasi School of Midwifery

Jody R. Lori

Nursing

Blood transfusion device design

Designing and building a low-cost, easy-to-operate blood transfusion device with Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi

Kathleen Sienko

Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

Breast cancer research

Research on the relationship between African ancestry and higher prevalence of triple negative breast cancer using samples of breast tumors taken from women in Ghana, Detroit and Ann Arbor

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Lisa Newman

U-M Breast Care Center

Clinical elective

One-month clinical elective for visiting medical students from Cape Coast

Carrie Ashton

Medical School

Collaborative research on social and environmental determinants of emerging diseases

Mark Wilson

Public Health

Dental collaboration

Collaboration with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Dental School

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Lynn Johnson

Dentistry

Design for maternal health

College of Engineering design for maternal health summer design and clinical immersion experience for students

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Kathleen Sienko

Engineering

Education and research collaborations

Developing doctoral education and research collaborations with leading engineering universities

Elijah Kannatey-Asibu, Nikos Chronis, Kathleen Sienko

Engineering

Emergency medical training program

A training program focused on medical students, nurses and residents in partnership with the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Ministry of Health

Richard Redman

Nursing

Emergency medicine

An initiative to aid the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Ministry of Health in the development of emergency medicine as a medical specialty and to improve the overall delivery of acute accident and emergency care

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Richard Redman

Nursing

Facility-based delivery

A project assessing the attitudes toward facility-based delivery among pregnant women in rural central Ghana

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Cheryl Moyer

Medical School

Fetal Maternal Medicine

Post-graduate training program in fetal maternal medicine that trains specialists in Ghana to become experts in maternal fetal medicine

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Frank Anderson

Medical School

Home-based life saving skills

Training skilled midwives

Jody Lori

Nursing

Human resources for health

Collaboration with the University of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Ministry of Health and Ghana Health Service to design an evidence-based roadmap for academic-government collaborative interventions that strengthen the training and deployment of human resources for health in Ghana

Jody Lori

Nursing

Impacts of mercury

Ecosystem-based approach to study the health and environmental impacts of mercury

Nil Basu

Public Health

Initiative for Research and Innovation Management (iRIM)

A project that seeks to improve the provision of grants management at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology by establishing a university-wide Office of Grants and Research through continued collaboration with U-M

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Joseph Kolars

Medical School

International Family Planning Fellowship Program (IFPFP)

Training obstetricians/gynecologists to be experts in family planning

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Vanessa Dalton

Medical School

Medical Student Exchange

Medical Student Exchange: Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

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Heather Makiharju and Carrie Ashton

Medical School

Medical student exchange

Exchanging medical students with the University of Development Studies and the University of Cape Coast

Heather Mäkiharju

Medical School

Medical Student Exchange: University of Ghana Medical School

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Heather Makiharju and Carrie Ashton

Medical School

Michigan Education Partner Initiative (MEPI)

A clinical training program for Ghanaian emergency medicine physicians and nurses

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Terry Kowalenko

Medical School

Midwifery pre-service education and faculty retention

Multi-year project in collaboration with the American College of Nurse-Midwives and funding from a private donor addressing midwifery pre-service education and faculty retention

Jody Lori

Nursing

Mortuary trucks

Designing and building low-cost mortuary trucks that will improve the sanitation at the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

Kathleen Sienko

Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

Neonatal jaundice research

Researching neonatal jaundice in rural areas and identifying the social and cultural factors that affect identification and treatment

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Cheryl Moyer

Medical School

North Pacific global health research fellows training consortium

Funded by a grant that supports the research training of postdoctoral fellows from the health science fields

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Cheryl Moyer

Medical School

Obstetrics and gynecology kit design

Designing and building a low-cost obstetrics and gynecology kit for use by health care workers

Kathleen Sienko

Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

Obstetrics delivery bed design

Designing an obstetrics delivery bed for the Okomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital

Kathleen Sienko

Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering

Perinatal mental health

Faculty-led program for perinatal mental health prevalence and needs assessment

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Katy Gold

Medical School

Prenatal, perinatal and postnatal research

A study exploring the prenatal, perinatal and postnatal periods in northern rural areas, assessing clean delivery practices, infant nutrition, community perceptions of infant illness and the role of grandmothers as healthcare gatekeepers

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Cheryl Moyer

Medical School

Presidential Scholars

The U-M African Presidential Scholars program brings to Ann Arbor early-career scholars from a variety of disciplines for up to six months of sabbatical research

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Kelly Askew

African Studies Center

Research on women’s rights and reproductive justice

Ed Goldman

Public Health

Research Training

Program supporting intensive research training for Ghanaian postdocs within several U-M schools and colleges

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Cheryl Moyer

Medical School

Studies of underlying genetic components of glaucoma

Julia Richards

Public Health

Study of women caregivers

Collaboration with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to study women caregivers, particularly the role daughters play in caring for their mothers

Carol Boyd

Nursing

Training sessions and projects with the faculty from social work programs at the University of Ghana, Polytechnic University, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration

Edith A. Lewis

Social Work

Women caregivers

Collaboration with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology to study women the role daughters play in caring for their mothers

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Carol Boyd

Nursing