by Monica Adhiambo Onyango | Mar 3, 2014 | 2014, Blog
I was in Tehran last week teaching a workshop on cost effectiveness and cost benefit analysis at the invitation of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute, Tehran University of Medical Sciences. The students in the workshop included physicians, pharmD...
by Monica Adhiambo Onyango | Feb 15, 2014 | 2014, Blog
Reprinted from Huffington Post Blog per Sheila Davis I am on the bus heading back to Boston after visiting my family in Brewer, Maine over the holidays and it was, as most travel is, an interesting experience. The characters that fill the bus are amusing and I enjoy...
by Monica Adhiambo Onyango | Feb 1, 2014 | 2014, Blog
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) is a referral facility (level 5) in Kisumu County, Kenya. It is about 3km from Kisumu town Centre on the shores of Lake Victoria. JOORTH has an inpatient bed capacity of 600 and a total of 241 nurses. As a...
by Monica Adhiambo Onyango | Jan 15, 2014 | 2014, Blog
Kenya Heart and Sole Afya Njema Program is a transnational service-learning, research and advocacy project that partners faculty, students and clinicians from UMass Boston with the Tumutumu and Kijabe Hospital Schools of Nursing, The University of Nairobi School of...
by Monica Adhiambo Onyango | Dec 15, 2013 | 2013, Blog
The Romanian nurses at Hospice Casa Sperantei have been unbelievable practice partners! Having formed a mentoring and collaborative relationship with them, both at a clinical practice and academic level, they continue to establish milestones including these areas and...
by Monica Adhiambo Onyango | Dec 1, 2013 | 2013, Blog
Supporting “voice” is one of the elements underpinning the notion of Advocacy. As I contemplated what I would share with you relative to this blog – I came to the decision I really wanted to write about the connection between the concepts of “Advocacy” as...
