WiRED International announces the culmination of a three-year effort to develop a comprehensive training program that offers expertly written, peer-reviewed training material free of charge for all people in underserved regions.
Reports from West Africa are not good. “[The Ebola contagion is] even worse than we’d feared,” Tom Frieden, M.D., director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told multiple sources while on a fact-finding trip to West Africa this week.
According to The New York Times, the World Health Organization has not only declared the Ebola epidemic in West Africa to be an international health emergency but demanded an extraordinary response.
WiRED International’s Community Health Education (CHE) Center in Kisumu, western Kenya, attracts both medical students and members of underserved communities to programs that improve people’s health outcomes.
WiRED International will soon launch a “filling station,” a vital tool for expanding the global reach of our Community Health Education (CHE) e-library to communities off the grid.
Nurses and health workers can now apply knowledge and techniques learned from a series of training modules on the echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease (RHD).
WiRED is assisting Children’s HeartLink to create training tools for their nursing programs overseas. We provide translations, module setup and design and PDF setup and design so that the modules can be printed locally as brochures.
WiRED International is rushing to complete a rapid response module on Ebola virus disease. Fresh outbreaks of Ebola continue to spread in three West African countries, according to the World Health Organization.
WiRED International opened its Community Health Education (CHE) Center in Kisumu, western Kenya, 12 years ago. Today the facility functions as the recently dedicated Faye F. and Sheldon S. Cohen Center.
At the 2014 World Congress of Cardiology in Melbourne, Australia, on Monday, WiRED International—along with our partners from the Royal Children’s Hospital and the Royal Darwin Hospital in Australia and the Royal Berkshire Hospital in the UK—released a series of training modules on the echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease.