In 2019, the team conducted a community needs assessment that was supported by the President’s Award for Global Learning at The University of Texas at Austin. An abstract that described this assessment and its results titled “Understanding community health needs and forging an academic global health partnership in Puebla, Mexico” was published in 2020 in The Lancet. The assessment is informing many of the initial initiatives of the new AMPATH partnership.
Read MoreThe 2018-19 President’s Award for Global Learning was the inaugural program of the International Board of Advisors at the University of Texas at Austin. Through the President’s Office, the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, and Texas Global, the program was created to educate global leaders and participate in a cross-cultural experience to increase the global engagement of UT Austin.
Read MoreAn interdisciplinary team of students and three faculty advisors won one of the inaugural President’s Award for Global Learning from the University of Texas for their proposal entitled “Health and Housing: A Comprehensive Needs Assessment of Low-Income Communities in Puebla, Mexico.”
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