It was wonderful to be back with our friends and colleagues in Detroit! We were so inspired by the tridirectional learning and commitment to harnessing Hope to drive health equity and reverse maternal mortality from Rwanda to Detroit, Michigan and Watsonville, California! Hope is the unspoken yet essential…
Authors Ishimwe, Angele Bienvenue; Uwitonze. Annick Gloria; Nsubuga, Diana Nambatya, PhD; Leonard, Wendy, MD Background Despite numerous safe motherhood campaigns happening in Rwanda, only 47% of pregnant women complete the 4 standard Antenatal Care Visits (ANC), while 56% attend the first standard visit. This is a threat to…
Listen to TIP Founder and Executive Director, Dr. Wendy Leonard, speak with host Mark Cohen of the podcast “You Are Doing What?” about TIP’s processes and technologies that are designed to achieve improved health outcomes in Africa and beyond. Listen now.
Watch the virtual summit, held on October 6, 2021, that explored the role of hopefulness in addressing health disparities in communities & burnout among frontline healthcare workers. Moderated by Linda Villarosa from The New York Times, the speakers featured include Angele Bienvenue Ishimwe from TIP Global Health, Dr….
When Henry Ford Health System visited Rwanda in partnership with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, they visited Ruli District, Rwanda and were impressed by TIP Global Health’s Hope Initiative research. TIP developed the Hope Initiative to better understand the influence of health system design on hope among nurses and…
Watch a panel discussion between TIP Global Health’s Dr. Wendy Leonard and Angele Bienvenue Ishimwe and Dr. Ijeoma Nnodim Opara from Wayne State University. They discuss the Hope Initiative’s research and findings and the role hopefulness plays in achieving sustained improvements in health outcomes.
TIP adapted the Herth Hope Index to the Rwandan context, and we have been using this tool to measure key features of hope — interconnectedness, readiness for change, and future-oriented mindset — among frontline health workers and mothers in rural health centers of Rwanda. Read the first published…
