Building Trust and Partnerships in Resource-Constrained El Salvador Settings to Improve Maternal and Infant Health - Alba Amaya-Burns, MD, MSc

March 26, 2014 | 9:00am - 10:00am ET

Trent Hall, Room 124, 310 Trent Dr
Alma Burns

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Building Trust and Partnerships in Resource-Constrained El Salvador Settings to Improve Maternal and Infant Health - Alba Amaya-Burns, MD, MSc

March 26, 2014 | 9:00am - 10:00am ET

Trent Hall, Room 124, 310 Trent Dr
Join us for a morning Global Health Exchange lecture, sponsored by DGHI. This event is free and open to the public so please spread the word to your colleagues and friends. Refreshments will be served.

About the lecture:
In this talk Dr. Amaya Burns will discuss how multi-level partnerships among disadvantaged communities living in the poorest Department (State) of El Salvador are addressing maternal mortality.  The community participatory program includes national and international public health policy makers, community engagement, and international student participation in developing and implementing programs that have reduced maternal mortality from 64 per1000 live births in 2006 to zero from 2007-2013.    

Amaya-Burns will share her global health training experiences where communities, their stakeholders, students, and academics collaborate in addressing health determinants in resource-constrained settings. She will discuss how building trust and partnerships among communities and their stakeholders, led to sustainable solutions by building social capital, observing and promoting human rights and social justice. The lessons learned provide insights for curriculum development at Duke Kunshan University as well as for public health practice that include community solutions for China and globally where health disparities exist.  

About the speaker:
An experienced public health leader and educator, Amaya-Burns has applied her knowledge of public health practice to large scale health promotion efforts in England, Latin America and the United States.  She has focused her attention on reducing health disparities in the United States and globally by training future health professionals, health workers, and faculty from low and middle income countries in the areas of health disparities, global health, infectious diseases, maternal health, and public health ethics.  She is currently working in the U.S., Guatemala, Mexico and El Salvador. She has received a number of awards, including the Induction into the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health in 2011, the UF International Educator of the Year Award in 2008, and the Public Health Award for Faculty Excellence in 2009.
 
She has served as a member of the UF College of Public Health Faculty Excellence Committee as well as the Ethics and Conflict Resolution Committee. She earned several awards from USAID for success in implementing infectious disease and child survival programs in El Salvador. Dr. Amaya-Burns is a medical doctor by training and earned her MSc. in Clinical Tropical Medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.