Cases

In 2011 in response to two high profile cases of maternal death during labor and delivery, Ugandan citizens mobilized to prevent maternal mortality by improving the delivery of healthcare services in public hospitals. The Coalition to Stop Maternal…

In 2016, resident physicians organized a strike at the State University Hospital of Haiti (HUEH) in the capital of Port-au-Prince that eventually spread to at least ten other public hospitals in the country, effectively paralyzing the health care system…

The SALUDos program began in 2008 as a response to an influx of migrant seasonal farm workers (MSFWs) at a mobile medical unit serving homeless persons in Santa Clara County in Northern California. The program offered patients free and low-cost primary…

This case describes and explores the development of the first medical transitions clinic in Louisiana by a group of community members, health professionals, and students at Tulane Medical School in 2015.  The context surrounding health in metro New…

This case tells the story of Dr. Roblero, a newly-graduated Mexican physician working in the rural community of La Soledad, who cares for Esdras, a young boy suffering from chronic malnutrition and pneumonia. Dr. Roblero and a team of providers…

The Palestinian Bedouin of the Negev desert are a minority community within Israel, one that has experienced limits on its rights to land use and health access. The Bedouin claim of ownership of their ancestral lands is disputed by the state of Israel,…

In Guatemala, rural and indigenous women face disparities in access to prevention and treatment of cervical cancer. This case analyzes barriers faced by Mayra, an indigenous woman from a rural community in Guatemala who was diagnosed with cervical…

In the aftermath of the atrocities endured by the Cambodian people, Friends-International (FI) was established in 1994 to address some of the many protection needs faced by the country’s marginalized children and youth. In the intervening quarter…

Three months into her job as secretary of health for Washington State in 1999-a position which had been vacant for nearly a year following the previous secretary’s resignation-Mary Selecky read a newspaper story that the state’s largest and…

The 8.9 magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on March 11, 2011, unleashed a 30-foot tsunami along Japan’s Pacific Coast that damaged nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear complex. The crippled reactors leaked radiation into the sea…