African health care professionals see the Zambia model as an efficient and cost-effective means of improving neurological care in their respective regions.
Project Summary
For the past ten years, Dr. Gretchen Birbeck, Director of Michigan State University’s International Neurological and Psychiatric Epidemiology program, has spent six months a year working in Zambia. Despite widespread neurological disorders including epilepsy, Zambia faces a critical absence of neurologists and thus a shortage of neurological expertise. Working with local ‘clinical officers’ in collaboration with local and regional health officials, Dr. Birbeck helped facilitate the development of straightforward, cost-effective training and research protocols that have impacted local health infrastructure and consequently patient care.
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