Category: LEADERS

UDHHC is renewing its commitment to the Haitian student community. We continue to invest in our young people working in healthcare in Haiti by giving them access to quality training that meets international standards. Since 2016, we’ve been training the leaders of tomorrow. This generation of students is passionate, skilled, and more than ready to serve their community. We would like to thank all those who, through their dedication, discipline and hard work, made the last academic year possible. We’d like to especially thank the team that carried out our research project on Covid-19. The project was called Investigation, Knowledge, and Attitudes toward COVID-19.  The last year came with great challenges, and we had to adapt to the stressful environment caused by the worldwide pandemic. We felt we were successful in meeting that challenge. Today we officially start our new recruitment period. We are now sending out invitations to new potential members. We’re seeking enthusiastic, dedicated, focused young people capable of actively working with UDHHC on new projects for the upcoming year, 2022. We offer online courses based on a well-defined curriculum. We help carry out research in a structured way according to the IRB’s standards. Haitian students working with UDHHC will be guaranteed medical supervision and psychological coaching. At the end of this term, students will have acquired the skills essential for a standardized medical career.
By K. Aldophe

UDHHC renouvelle son engagement vis-à-vis de la communauté estudiantine haïtienne. Nous continuons à nous investir dans nos jeunes évoluant dans le domaine de la santé en Haïti en leur donnant accès à une formation de qualité répondant aux standards internationaux. Depuis 2016, nous formons ainsi des leaders de demain efficaces, compétents, se distinguant par leur excellence et qui pourront être utiles à leur communauté.
Nous voulons remercier en général tous ceux qui par leur dévouement, leur discipline et leur travail assidu ont rendu possible la dernière année académique et en particulier l’équipe ayant mené à terme notre projet de recherche sur le Covid-19 intitulé : Enquêtes, Connaissances, Attitudes et Pratiques vis-à-vis de la COVID-19.et du vaccin.
La dernière saison est venue avec de grands challenges et nous avons dû nous accommoder au climat occasionné par la crise sanitaire dans le monde. Avec succès, nous avons relevé le défi qui s’est présenté.
Aujourd’hui nous lançons officiellement le début de notre nouvelle période de recrutement. Nous faisons un appel à la candidature de nouveaux membres qui voudront intégrer nos rangs. Nous recherchons des jeunes enthousiastes, dynamiques, sérieux, capables de s’engager activement pour/avec UDHHC afin de mener à terme les nouveaux projets de l’année 2022. Nous offrons des cours en ligne selon un cursus bien déterminé. Nous donnons la possibilité de réaliser des travaux de recherche de façon structurée selon les normes de la recherche scientifique en interaction avec des étudiants en médecine aux États-Unis. Un coaching psychologique et un suivi rapproché seront garantis tout au long du processus. À la fin de ce terme, les étudiants auront acquéri les compétences essentielles à une carrière médicale standardisée
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By K. Adolphe

Since December 29, 2012, UDH Health Coach have a weekly broadcast radio show that educates Haitian community on different medical topics, raises public awareness about primary care and empowers patients to take care of themselves. UDH Health Coach goal is to promote preventive medicine through this radio program. It is platform to reach out to the Haitian community for their overall well being.

UDHHC Team

The Solidarity of Grief

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Insecurity is often described as a feeling that invades us when we are uncertain of the outcome of a dire situation. When applied to reality and to the environment, it becomes a disease to cure. In November 2020 the country of Haiti witnessed the kidnapping of a young medical intern close to his workplace. That act of violence pushed the interns, doctors and nurses to organize and protest in the street. Across the country they manifested, “we are serving our country, no more kidnapping”. Young people want to live, have a secure country. No more banditry. This uprising by young professionals has shown the extent of how the intolerable going to school and work under this condition is. This uprising of young professional is a testimony to the intolerable political chaos.

By A. PIERRE

Born in Kenscoff, Haiti, Father Gustave Miracle was ordained a Catholic priest in November 2002 by the Papal Representative, Archbishop Luigi Bonazzi, for the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince.
After ministering as a Parish Priest in Petit-Goave and Port-au-Prince,
He was successfully appointed Director of Youth Ministry and Vocations Office. Since 2010, he is serving as a Chaplain for the Haitian Catholic community in the Archdiocese of Boston while he is completing his Master in Social Ethics at Boston College in 2014 and working in his Doctorate in Transformational Leadership at Boston University since 2018.
Today, Father Miracle is very active in Boston Community at large and especially as an advocate for TPS recipients.

Brian Swann, DDS, MPH, Chief of Dental Services, is a renowned clinician who oversees all aspects of CHA’s dental services – patient care, clinical quality, and the Harvard-affiliated General Practice Dental Residency.

Dr. Swann earned his dental degree at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry and over the course of his lengthy career has held clinical and management positions in both private practice and the public sector. The latter includes serving as Dental Examiner for the State of California and as Dental Director of both the Sierra-Nevada and San Jose Job Corps. He was also a co-founder of the Greater Bay Area Dental Society, based in San Francisco and received the UCSF highest alumni recognition, the Medal of Honor.

After moving to the Boston region, Dr. Swann earned a Masters of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he received the Albert Schweitzer Award for Humanitarianism. He later completed Harvard fellowships in Oral Epidemiology and Minority Health Policy. He currently holds the position of Clinical Instructor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine.

Since joining CHA in 2008, Dr. Swann has continued his passion for dental care and community health improvement, particularly for multicultural populations. His other activities in this area include serving as a Clinician at the Mattapan Community Health Clinic, as Chair of the National and International Relations Committee of the National Dental Association and organizing the first joint African Tour between the American Dental Association and the National Dental Association in Kenya, Zanzibar, and Ethiopia.

Most recently, Dr. Swann lectured at the University of West Indies, School of Dentistry on oral public health. He has also been asked to create an emergency preparedness course in collaboration with the University Of Haiti School Of Dentistry, HSDM, the National Dental Association, and the City of Cambridge Peace Commission and to assist with developing an oral health course for the Schools of Nursing at the University of Haiti and the University of Notre Dame.