Home Page

Kenya Highlights-Healthcare around the globe

Voting Station in Maai Mahu

Voting station near Valley Light Orphanage in Maai MahuYes, our friend John Njoroge said the line was still long after dark. Voting was to have been completed by 5 pm, but the voting station stayed …

Counting votesAs votes are counted the country waits to see if calm will prevail. I have been so impressed at how hard Kenyans worked to vote. One of our young doctors took the all night bus to arrive…

Wild Things of Kenya: Infectious Diseases and Safari Animals

Week 4: Elephants, a Giraffe and Barriers to Research in Kenya

Infectious Disease Highlights

Rod on TV!! Yes, its about cholera!

Orphanages, Slums, and the Cholera Outbreak

Infectious Disease Research in East Africa

Meet 4 University of Arizona students who are doing research with Rod. Jennifer Adam, Jenna Dobrick, Audrey Nisbett, and Hussein Magale. Journey to medical records and go along with these exceptional …

Health Care in Rural Kenya

Jennifer Adam, Equipping Africa board member, is in Kenya with 3 of her friends. All are first year students at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. They are doing research with Rod and gett…

Mary and the Loyola Healthcare MBA class

Thanks to my connections with Andy Kaufman who is a faculty teaching Project Management at Loyola you can get in on the class and hear about Project Management in the Maternal Newborn Community Health…

Misnamed: My Name is Mary; My heart is Martha

I am misnamed. My name is Mary, but my heart is Martha. I confess. I am a doer by nature, productivity driven, and this confession exposes something about what I treasure. I want to be valuable; produ…

Maundy Thursday and on Call at Kijabe

In the official Christian church calendar, it was Maundy Thursday. In Mary’s calendar, it was on call night. Two died on my shift. Both babies with congenital anomalies, but it still hurts. Both w…

Joy in the Midst of Sorrow

The physician strike in Kenya began December 5th. Government employed physicians walked off the job. This has been devastating to me. I remember almost 20 years ago in Arizona when physicians at Thoma…

Making Room

The fairy tale trip to Germany is over. I am back at Kijabe and that means STRIKE DUTY. Strike Duty at Kijabe calls for innovation. Our overcrowded nursery with more than 35 babies in a unit made for …

It all Happened in a Castle

A Castle in Germany. Wow what a setting for a week long course in Tropical Pediatrics. Rod and I were invited to speak at this course and it was a bit like living in a fairy tale. The course venue was…

Rod and Ulm University Medical School

Last week Rod and I were in Germany to speak at the Tropical Pediatric Course put on by the German Tropical Pediatric Society. Of course a few additional and interesting side opportunities also emerge…

Calm Moments

I was not on the hospital schedule this last week, but scheduled for time off. Our wonderful friends the Donelson’s came for a week. Safari is a fantastic way to celebrate your wedding anniversary (…

The Electricity is OFF

We called the kids Christmas morning, (Christmas eve for them). On Facetime we could see they were all bundled up, winter jackets, hats and gloves-all while sitting on the couch in Ben and Brooke’s …

No Room

Its almost Christmas and the NO ROOM sign seems to flash, but the sign is on hospitals. No physicians at most government hospitals, due to the strike. At Kijabe we have NO ROOM, but we are trying to s…

Equipping Africa

Medical Training

Mentorship

Newborn & Maternal Community Health

Infectious Disease Training

Latest Posts