Building Safer Health Systems: School of Medicine's McDiarmid and Gaitens Make Global Impact in The Gambia
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When Melissa McDiarmid, MD, MPH, DABT, began her career in occupational and environmental medicine, she never imagined her path would take her from Baltimore classrooms and clinics to shaping national health policy in West Africa. Today, she and her colleague Joanna Gaitens, PhD, MSN, MPH, RN, both faculty members in the University of Maryland School of Medicine’s (UMSOM) Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, are demonstrating how academic medicine can drive real-world change in global health.
Their latest work — anchored by a project supported through the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) President’s Global Impact Fund — is transforming how health care workers in The Gambia are protected from occupational hazards.
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