While he was growing up, Charles Loponi’s mother and grandmother were traditional birth attendants, and his maternal grandfather was a local healer and herbalist. “I came from that lineage of people helping others,” he says. Lydia Mbatidde is the first in her family to […]
Ugandan students experience health care and life, Iowa-style Read More
Kelsey Millonig is a dual degree DMU student in podiatric medicine and surgery and public health, which fuels her passion for global health efforts. She was among an interdisciplinary group of students and clinicians who participated in a five-day health services trip in rural Honduran villages over the 2014 spring break. She
Seeking a safe haven Read More
Human trafficking is a modern-day slavery, involving victims who are forced, defrauded or coerced into labor or sexual exploitation. An estimated 293,000 U.S. children are at risk of being exploited and trafficked. Des Moines University is holding a series of
Des Moines University series to raise awareness of human trafficking Read More
Three participants in DMU’s health service trip to St. Lucia this spring got to be radio celebrities in addition to health care providers: Katarina Conradson (in the photo above, center) and Julie Fleener, physician assistant students, and Jolene Kelly, MPAS, PA-C’96, program director/chair (in
Coming to you live on “Love” from St. Lucia Read More
Karl “Fritz” Disque, D.O.’07, R.Ph., and colleagues of his family’s Disque Foundation recently coordinated with St. John’s Ambulance to help train medical residents and nursing students at the University of Science of Malaysia on cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques. Disque is the foundation’s executive director and co-founder/chief medical officer
Empowering Malaysia to save lives with CPR Read More
Our trip was in conjunction with Global Brigades, an organization with ongoing sites in multiple areas around the world. The Honduran staff for Global Brigades were quite good and prepared for our arrival. They provided translators, although some of our group
“A privilege of service” Read More
The 31 students who participated in the DMU health service trip to Honduras touched the lives of more than the nearly 1,600 patients they saw over five days in March. They also earned the pride of the clinicians who oversaw and guided them onsite. They inspired a
A journey of much more than 1,887 miles Read More
“How do we make it so everybody could just naturally go out and walk or bike and get to know their neighbors?” That’s a question that Dan Burden, co-founder and a director of the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute (WALC),
Don’t walk much? Maybe it’s your neighborhood Read More
While the polar vortex gripping many states this winter had people complaining about the weather more than usual, the discussion by a group gathered in a DMU boardroom on the snowy morning of Feb. 4 was even more somber in
New consortium to probe climate change’s impact on health Read More
Over spring break, 31 Des Moines University students embarked on a weeklong journey to provide health care, education and supplies to hundreds of underserved individuals in Honduras. Dose of DMU is featuring Kelsey’s daily accounts and photos of the group’s
Honduras health service trip: the return home Read More