A first for many members of Project Medishare, the University of Miami School of Medicine's affiliated organization created to provide medicine and health care in areas of Haiti that are desperately underserved. The program enables practicing physicians, health care workers and students from the United States to help their colleagues in Haiti upgrade that country's health care system by working with the national medical and nursing schools, private hospitals, and state-run hospitals.

Barth Green, M.D., chairman of the Department of Neurological Surgery, conceived the idea for Project Medishare in 1994. To start the project, he sought the help and involvement of Arthur Fournier, M.D., associate dean for community health affairs and professor and vice chairman of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the School of Medicine. Dr. Fournier, in turn, approached Michel Dodard, M.D., a native Haitian and clinical assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine, and now medical director of the Jefferson Reaves Senior Health Center in Overtown.

About four trips are scheduled each year. Each trip lasts about a week and includes either Dr. Fournier or Dr. Dodard, or both, and about 12 to 15 students.

Cornell University
Haitian AIDS Center -- Oldest in Caribbean -- Is Establishing New Institute to Fight AIDS and Other Infectious Diseases, Special Gala Raises Funds and Honors Weill Cornell's Dr. Warren Johnson in New York, NY (January 2, 2002): GHESKIO -- a leading Haitian health facility dedicated since 1982 to research, services, and training in HIV/AIDS and other deadly infectious diseases -- observed World AIDS Day last December 1 by holding a gala with hundreds of guests to raise funds for a new Institute to replace its present, outgrown quarters. GHESKIO (Groupe Haitien d’Etudes du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes) is the second oldest institution in the world, after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, dedicated to the fight against AIDS, and it has been in the forefront of many medical achievements.

Its new and expanded Institute, to be constructed on a new site, will be known as the Institute of Infectious Diseases and Reproductive Health.

GHESKIO and Weill Cornell Medical College:
The connection of GHESKIO to Weill Cornell Medical College dates from the Haitian Center’s very beginning. Dr. Jean Pape, director of GHESKIO, graduated from the Medical College at Cornell in 1975. He currently is a Professor of Medicine at Cornell. Dr. Warren D. Johnson, Jr. is a professor of Tropical Medicine at Weill Cornell and Chief of International Medicine and Infectious Diseases at New York Weill Cornell Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Johnson was instrumental in the founding and guidance of GHESKIO.

George Washington University Medical Center (GWUMC)
George Washington University medical students "adopted" a remote part of the very poor central province of Haiti.
http://home.gwu.edu/~gwg

Haiti Medical
Haiti Medical is a voluntary independent initiative that started in 1997.
http://haitimedical.com/

Harvard Medical School
Department of Social Medicine
Program in Medical Anthropology
Teaching Programs

La Faculte de Medecine et de Pharmacie (FMP)
Medical School in Port-au-Prince