creation of U.S. health corps
A Yale physician is part of an international ,committee that has called on Congress to establish a U.S. Global Health Service Corps to combat AIDS-HIV, malaria and tuberculosis in underserved overseas areas.
The report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), titled "Healers Abroad: Americans Responding to the Human Resource Crisis in HIV/AIDS," details an initiative modeled after the U.S. Peace Corps. The corps' 150 members would make a two-year commitment to work in resource settings highly endemic for the diseases. The report also proposes establishing a $35,000 fellowship award program similar to Fulbright Awards for physicians, nurses, midwives, laboratory technicians, data managers, HIV trainers, pharmacists and social scientists.
Dr. Michele Barry, professor of medicine and global health at the School of Medicine, approached the IOM two years ago to help develop options for an international medical arm of the U.S. Peace Corps or National Health Service Corps.
When the Presidential Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief at the State Department commissioned a study on assembling a U.S. corps to help deliver antiretrovirals, the IOM assembled a committee of 15 individuals from the U.S. and overseas to consider how best to achieve that goal.
"It is the committee's hope that these suggestions would build a U.S. health workforce able to meet global health emergencies such as the HIV-AIDS pandemic, foster self-sustainability of countries with insufficient human resources for health, and help foster collaborative global partnerships for the future," Barry says.
The U.S. Global Health Service Corps would also work to establish a country-needs-based workforce assessment to be conducted in collaboration with ministries of health personnel to delineate nations' human resource needs; develop a Clearinghouse Opportunity Bank so professionals can be matched to country needs; facilitate information exchange and networks; and develop a loan repayment program to pay $25,000 annually to clinical, managerial and technical professionals prepared to serve overseas for designated time periods.
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