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51品茶students and faculty bring health care to Ghana for eighth year

Last week, 40 students and faculty from UNE鈥檚 Westbrook College of Health Professions flew to Ghana to embark on a two-week Cross Cultural Health Immersion initiative.

This annual effort involves collaboration between UNE, the Ghana Health Service and local Ghana health practitioners to provide primary care, health education and clinical services to community members in the city of Sekondi and two rural nearby villages.

Jennifer Morton, DNP, M.S., M.P.H., RN, associate professor and director of nursing at UNE, has led this service-learning trip for the past eight years. Its purpose is to give American and Ghanaian physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, physician assistants, optometrists, social workers and public health professionals the opportunity to learn from, with and about each other and their patients.

鈥淟ots of things have changed since the last time I worked in Africa,鈥 commented Dora Anne Mills, M.D., M.P.H. FAAP, vice president for clinical affairs. 鈥淛en Morton has been leading this trip for many years, transforming our students and faculty, and helping us all to be better citizens of the world.鈥

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