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Breaking Barriers: Women Construction Workers Defy Gender Norms in Building a Life-Saving Maternal…
Breaking Barriers: Women Construction Workers Defy Gender Norms in Building a Life-Saving Maternal…
The construction industry, a global powerhouse that employs over 100 million people, remains one of the most male-dominated sectors…
Build Health International
Aug 27
It’s Rainy Season at the Maternal Center of Excellence
It’s Rainy Season at the Maternal Center of Excellence
To overcome environmental conditions during the wettest part of the year, Build Health International’s Sierra Leone team has learned to…
Build Health International
Jul 12
Safe Hospitals, Safe People
Safe Hospitals, Safe People
Following a dangerous explosion at Murunda Hospital in Rwanda, BHI developed a new safety training program to protect hospital technicians…
Build Health International
May 10
Smiles on the Horizon in Guinea
Smiles on the Horizon in Guinea
A new dental clinical training center will administer direct services to the public and training to dental students throughout the country…
Build Health International
Apr 17
How WhatsApp Connects Biomedical Communities
How WhatsApp Connects Biomedical Communities
This past month, a technician based in Zambia noticed a filter on their hospital’s oxygen plant had begun leaking oil. The technician, who…
Build Health International
Mar 28
In Hinche, a New Warehouse Changes the Future of Healthcare in Haiti
In Hinche, a New Warehouse Changes the Future of Healthcare in Haiti
In Hinche, Haiti, a wooden perimeter has been carefully marked off around a grassy, vacant lot. Nearby, local construction teams unload…
Build Health International
Feb 27
Beyond Borders: How Mentorship at BHI Transcends Continents
Beyond Borders: How Mentorship at BHI Transcends Continents
This post is one of a short series that highlights several of the people who make up Build Health International’s (BHI) global health…
Build Health International
Jan 24
BHI-Recommended Reads for the New Year
BHI-Recommended Reads for the New Year
Begin 2024 with these BHI-recommended Books
Build Health International
Jan 5
At BHI, Language Is a Powerful Tool
At BHI, Language Is a Powerful Tool
Oxygene ni ubuzima.
Build Health International
Oct 19, 2023
BHI Delivers Medical Oxygen Trainings in Yaoundé, Cameroon
BHI Delivers Medical Oxygen Trainings in Yaoundé, Cameroon
This past June, Build Health International (BHI), in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health and Clinton Health Access Initiative…
Build Health International
Aug 7, 2023
Powered by Solar and Partners
Powered by Solar and Partners
This past month, the Centre de Santé Sacré-Coeur de Thiotte (CSST) Clinic received a new boost of energy. Thanks to collaborative efforts…
Build Health International
Jun 28, 2023
One Year Later: Jim Ansara Remembers Dr. Paul Farmer
One Year Later: Jim Ansara Remembers Dr. Paul Farmer
The past few weeks have been an emotional rollercoaster as I reflected, with some trepidation, on the first anniversary of the passing of…
Build Health International
Mar 7, 2023
Women Building for Women: Breaking Gender Barriers and Building Health Equity
Women Building for Women: Breaking Gender Barriers and Building Health Equity
The future Maternal Center of Excellence will break barriers for what is possible for women’s health care in Sierra Leone, and the women…
Build Health International
Jan 18, 2023
Beverly Community Mobilizes to Ship a Backhoe to Sierra Leone
Beverly Community Mobilizes to Ship a Backhoe to Sierra Leone
The Maternal Center of Excellence is one of BHI’s largest projects to date, only possible through mobilization in both
Build Health International
Dec 29, 2022
In Focus: How One Camera is Changing Oxygen Access in Malawi
In Focus: How One Camera is Changing Oxygen Access in Malawi
Equitable oxygen access remains a challenge in low-resource settings around the world. To deliver critical and lifesaving oxygen medicine…
Build Health International
Dec 6, 2022
Solar Powering Health in Haiti
Solar Powering Health in Haiti
Haiti is home to one of the world’s largest solar-powered hospitals, the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais. Knowing that more can be done…
Build Health International
Aug 11, 2022
One Door Closed is Another Hospital Opened
One Door Closed is Another Hospital Opened
After a storm hit Norwood Hospital in June 2020, the building was deemed a total loss. But materials that once made up Norwood will soon…
Build Health International
Jun 8, 2022
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