Harvard Humanitarian Institute
Pfizer
Seoul National University Hospital
SRM University
TB & Cancer, Bermuda
Worldcare

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI)

The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) is a university-wide center combining expertise in public health, medicine, social science, and humanities to advance research, practice, and policy in the field of humanitarian assistance to populations affected by war and disaster.

The mission of the Initiative is to relieve human suffering in war and disaster by advancing the science and practice of humanitarian response worldwide.

Through information sharing, networking and educational initiatives, HHI and Partners International collaborate to expand and facilitate opportunities for physicians and other clinicians to render assistance during and after humanitarian crises, and improve knowledge and capabilities to respond to crises in the future.

Medical Education Collaboration with Pfizer in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America

In 2004, Partners began a collaboration with Pfizer, Inc. to provide educational opportunities for physicians in Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. The collaboration features Continuing Medical Education Conferences in cardiovascular disease held annually in Dubai and Latin America. Secondly, a Clinical Preceptorship program was established for visiting oncologists and cardiologists from these regions. The preceptorships are made available to promising early and mid-career specialists who come to Boston to participate in clinical rotations at MGH, BWH and, in the case of oncologists, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. These programs provide structured mentoring as well as a formal schedule of participation in clinical rounds, case conferences, educational lectures and inter-disciplinary team discussions.

Seoul National University Hospital

Partners International consummated a formal relationship with Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) Healthcare System in April 2005. Our initial collaboration has been structured in the form of Partners Premiere Program Affiliation Agreement with a division known as the Gangnam Center.

Opened in 2003, Gangnam Center is a new division of Seoul National University Hospital that provides diagnostic and preventive care. Such care is not covered under the national insurance plan; so care is personally funded and service delivery is consumer-driven.

Gangnam Center offers a state-of-the-art facility and "one stop shopping" for virtually all diagnostic services, including MRI, PET, CT, and Upper GI Endoscopy. The Gangnam Center has been extremely successful and it serves a broad array of clients who are proactive about managing and protecting their health.

Gangnam Center offers a comprehensive program, called Partners Premiere CEO, that includes diagnostic screening, preventive care, physician specialist visits, health promotion and chronic condition management services as well as core Partners Premiere service features. Clients elect to enroll for a minimum of a year.

SNUH and Partners are exploring broader collaboration in the areas of genetics and genomics, remote health care management as well as research and education.

SRM University, Chennai, India

Partners is currently working with SRM University in Chennai to improve medical and nursing practices in emergency and trauma services. Recommendations have been made identifying specific training, staffing and organizational measures needed to establish a Level Three Trauma Center, progressing to Level Two. SRM physicians and nurses will also work within the emergency departments at BWH and MGH to observe best practices and develop collegial relations that will enable on-going communication to occur. In subsequent years, similar upgrade efforts will be undertaken in other medical and surgical specialties.

The Bermuda TB, Cancer and Health Association

The Bermuda TB, Cancer and Health Association was formed in 1945 to assist patients with tuberculosis. Today the organization seeks to address the needs of Bermuda through its world class mammography suite and medical resource library.

Partners assists the Association by providing informational resources for patients and families with cancer; lectures by renowned cancer specialists; support for the Association's efforts to raise public awareness, and programs to encourage early detection of cancer.

For more information or questions regarding TB and Cancer activities, please contact Bermuda's local representative, Leslie Shane.

WorldCare

Partners collaborates with WorldCare, Ltd. in a variety of international activities. Since the early 1990's, Partners has delivered remote teleradiology interpretations and specialty medical consultations to WorldCare clients in the Middle East, Latin America, and Asia. Partners radiologists provide radiology interpretations for WorldCare's clinical trials business. Partners has also worked with WorldCare to provide advanced clinical consultation services to hospitals in the Middle East. Future plans call for Partners to provide clinical program planning, telemedicine services, and periodic operational reviews for a new wellness center to be managed by WorldCare in Dubai, UAE.