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Even as a young girl attending primary school in rural Rwanda, M. C. Sage Ishimwe, M.B.B.S, M.P.H., already knew that she wanted to help her community become healthy. She began medical school in 2011 at the University of Rwanda College of Medicine & Health Sciences and soon joined the Rwanda Village Community Promoters, a student organization dedicated to improving health standards in underserved communities.
As we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month this year, we are recognizing community-engaged researchers at institutions that are historically committed to training populations underrepresented in science.
As we celebrate Black History Month this year, we are recognizing community-engaged researchers at institutions that are historically committed to training populations underrepresented in science.
As we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month this year, we are recognizing community-engaged researchers at institutions that are historically committed to training populations underrepresented in science.
The NIMHD Loan Repayment Program (LRP) is a congressionally established program that offers loan repayment awards of up to $50,000 per year for up to two years of a recipient’s qualified educational debt annually, in return for a commitment to engage in NIMHD mission–relevant research for at least two years. One of the major goals of the LRP is to increase the pool of highly qualified researchers who conduct health disparities research. The 2021 LRP award application cycle is from September 1 through November 20, 2020.
Telling people who previously thought they were healthy that they have diabetes is a pivotal moment. Arsène F. Hobabagabo, M.D., M.Sc., the fourth Rwandan physician to complete the NIH-Rwandan Health Program, has done that many times.
Each year, the NIH Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE) hosts a poster day for recent college graduates across the different NIH Institutes to present their research. This year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, OITE held the event virtually over 3 days, rather than hosting the event in person on the NIH campus. A total of 875 researchers-in-training shared a variety of studies conducted under the supervision of NIH faculty.
Each year, the NIH-Rwandan Health Program welcomes a physician from Rwanda who is committed to becoming a clinician scientist. Regine Mugeni, M.D., a physician from Rwamagana Provincial Hospital, came to NIH in July 2018 and is the third fellow to complete the yearlong fellowship program. She has been working on finding an affordable and reliable way to predict diabetes in Africans.
Rwanda is among the world’s poorest countries and has been recovering from the 1994 genocide in which about 800,000 people, mostly of the Tutsi minority, were killed. Over the past two decades, Rwanda has introduced universal health care, and life expectancy has greatly improved. The country continues to modernize.
Twenty-three years after the genocide that disrupted Rwanda’s fragile economic structure, Rwanda’s Ministry of Health has given Dr. Jean Nepo Utumatwishima the opportunity to travel abroad for training in medical research. Dr. Utumatwishima is the first graduate of the National Institutes of Health’s Rwanda fellowship, which serves as a yearlong program geared towards training a Rwandan physician to become a clinician scientist.
