Press Release: November NYU Alumni Networking Social: The Spirit of Giving

The School of Continuing and Professional Studies and the McGhee Division Alumni Committee are co-sponsoring the November NYU Alumni Networking Social: "The Spirit of Giving" on November 29th at the NYU Torch Club, 18 Waverly Place, at 6:00-8:00pm.

Along with two other alumni, Ro Wyman '88 will make a short presentation on her extensive experience with Wyman Worldwide Health Partners and working as a not-for-profit in Rwanda in East Central Africa.

Are you interested in making a difference and bringing change about in the world?  Join her and other NYU Alumni to learn, to share and to inspire!

Oliver Wyman raises $90,000 for WWHPS in Annual Charity Auction

Oliver Wyman, a leading financial management consulting firm, raised over $90,000 dollars for WWHPS in its annual charity auction, setting a new record. 

Read more about it here.

Tuck School of Business Teams Up with WWHPS

Tuck's First-Year Project (FYP) is a required course that Tuck MBA students take in the spring term of their first year. Teams of five students, working under the guidance of a Faculty Advisor, apply their prior business experience and their classroom learning to challenging, real-world business problems for clients ranging from global industry leaders to early-stage startups.

In this course, Tuck students learn consulting skills while they also learn to apply the academic knowledge they have recently acquired to practical business problems. Project clients provide the real-world challenge and in return they receive a thorough analysis of their problem along with actionable recommendations.

This spring a Tuck First Year Project team will work with Wyman Worldwide Health Partners to develop a fundraising strategy to help fund the expansion of the CCHIPs project in the coming years. The anticipated expansion of the project and the weak economy require a novel strategy in order to meet the additional needs of the program. 

Wyman Worldwide Health Partners would like to develop a broader strategy that leverages their unique business approach to work in the developing world to find additional traditional and non-traditional sources and forms of financial support. 

President Kagame Inaugurates First Burera District Hospital

On Monday, WWHPS-CCHIPs was invited to attend the dedication of the first hospital for the Burera District in the Northern Province in Rwanda. The Butaro Hospital, which was a joint venture funded by the Rwandan government, Partners in Health  and the Clinton Foundation, is expected to be a model medical facility for the delivery of high-quality healthcare services to people in low-income countries.

Although CCHIPs works at the community/health center level in Rwanda, which is the gateway to all medical care, the opportunity for WWHPS-CCHIPs to network and to learn about how the hospital facilities were designed, built and organized to efficiently and effectively provide healthcare services was very important. In the upcoming weeks, members of the CCHIPs Project team will meet with PIH staff members to discuss PIH/Butaro Hospital initiatives such as their (1) medical equipment procurement procedures, (2) clinical mental health program; and (3) Community Health Worker associations’ microfinance trainings/activities that may represent opportunities for WWHPS-CCHIPs to partner and to enhance its model.

The Butaro Hospital represents a huge milestone for healthcare in Rwanda. The hospital makes high-quality healthcare available to 400,000 Rwandans in the Burera District and relieves pressure on the Ruhengeri District Hospital, which was providing medical care coverage for Burera. The CCHIPs Project is furthering the MoH goal of improving healthcare facilities and services at the health center level. This, in turn, will also reduce the rate of referrals to the Ruhengeri District Hospital.

Healthcare partners working in concert are changing the healthcare aid paradigm and empowering and focusing Rwandans on self-sustainability. WWHPS-CCHIPs is proud to be a part of creating this change.

President Paul Kagame and Richard Sezebera, Minister of Health, inaugurate Butaro Hospital.

Paul Farmer, of PIH, was a driving force behind the creation of the district hospital model. WWHPS-CCHIPs agrees with his philosophy that poor people of the world are entitled to quality healthcare.

Read more about the hospital dedication here. 

Wyman Worldwide Health Partners Inc. Elects Zachary T. Scott to Board of Trustees

Wyman Worldwide Health Partners’ (WWHPS) Board of Trustees recently unanimously elected Zachary T. Scott (Dartmouth ’08) as its newest Board member acknowledging his significant contribution to the growth of the CCHIPs Project in Rwanda.  Scott worked with WWHPS-CCHIPs from January 2009 through December 2010 first as Management Systems Coordinator and then as Project Manager and Strategic Expansion Coordinator.

Ro Wyman, Founder & CEO, recognized Zack’s contribution to the remarkable and rapid development and growth of the sustainable and replicable CCHIPs Model for the healthcare delivery system for rural health centers in Rwanda.

“Zack has been a driving force in our strategy development for the CCHIPs project,” Wyman said when announcing the Board’s decision at a party hosted for CCHIPs stakeholders in Rwanda in December.

Scott is joining Oliver Wyman Financial Services this January, 2011. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 2008 with a degree in Finance and Economic Development. ­