Meeting Our Partners

We have already met some amazing people as we get acclimated to Ethiopia. Here are some of our recent experiences:

We were welcomed to the University of Gondar by President Mengesha Admassu. With incence wafting through the room, we were served coffee and talked with senior leadership of the University. President Admassau expressed the great value that the University of Gondar placed on its collaboration with Ohio State.
We were welcomed to the University of Gondar by President Mengesha Admassu. With incense wafting through the room, we were served coffee and talked with senior leadership of the University. President Admassau expressed the great value that the University of Gondar placed on its collaboration with Ohio State.
Dr. Sisay Yifru, Dean of University of Gondar College of Medicine and Health Sciences demonstrates to me the use of a hand sanitizer dispenser on an inpatient unit at the University of Gondar Hospital. These dispensers are manufactured at a local plastics factory. The dispenser location and design demonstrate local adaptation of international “best practices” for hand hygiene in health care facilities, including placing hand sanitizer at the “point of care.” This technology was developed and deployed in cooperation with the Patient Safety Initiative, World Health Organization, but has been sustained by administrative support and leadership of the University of Gondar.
Dr. Sisay Yifru, Dean of University of Gondar College of Medicine and Health Sciences demonstrates to me the use of a hand sanitizer dispenser on an inpatient unit at the University of Gondar Hospital. These dispensers are manufactured at a local plastics factory. The dispenser location and design demonstrate local adaptation of international “best practices” for hand hygiene in health care facilities, including placing hand sanitizer at the “point of care.” This technology was developed and deployed in cooperation with the Patient Safety Initiative, World Health Organization, and has been sustained by administrative support and leadership of the University of Gondar.
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Drs. Jodi Ford and Usha Menon, College of Nursing, walk with the director of International Relations at the University of Gondar on a tour of the university’s new hospital under construction though a partnership with United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC-Ethiopia), the Ministry of Health, and a private donor.

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