Partnerships for Health - Jeff Health and the Rwanda Village Concept Project – A model of interdisciplinary health professions student global education
Background
The Rwanda Health and Healing Project (RHHP)
• Started in 2006: Barefoot Artists and TJU Department of Family and Community Medicine
– Global health immersion experience
– Interdisciplinary
– Focus: team-based, sustainable public health programming,
economic development, community empowerment
• Public-Health Programming: Akarambi, Rugerero
– Hygiene and Sanitation
– Childhood Nutrition
– Helminth Prevention
– HIV Education
– Income Generation: chicken coop, rabbit rearing, mushroom farming, bee keeping, pig farmin