Category: UDHHC ObserverShip

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.

Open Enrollment starts on November 1^st, 2020 for the year 2021 through January 23^rd , 2021

It is the time individuals and families can apply and enroll in health and dental coverage and see if you qualify for free or lower cost coverage like Mass Health, and Connector Care plans.

The Joint Committee for Children’s Health Care in Everett will assist individuals and families obtain health insurance. JCCHCE Office located at 484 Broadway Street, Room 2, Everett Massachusetts. Call to apply for health insurance with the help of one of the JCCHCE Navigator. For one-on-one assistance with one of the Haitian who knows the system perfectly and could speak clearly the Haitian creole. Please call 617-394-2414 or email us at 2414help@gmail.com
Hours: Tuesday – 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. & Wednesday 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. All offices are closed because of the corvid virus, but one of the Haitian creole spoken is still available to help you when you call.

UDH/ KwenSante is very pleased to welcome Dr. Gisèle César.

Dr. César joined the UDHHC / KwenSante team on Saturday October 17, 2020 and had her first broadcast on Saturday, October 24, 2020.

Dr. César is a proud Haitian-American Family Medicine Resident Physician at Cambridge Health Alliance. She works at the Malden and Everett branches in Massachusetts. She strives to empower patients in her community to take control of their health and well-being. Gisele enjoys spending quality time with her partner, Brian, who is a social worker in Malden and Everett.