International Connections
29-Jul-2010
Hadassah, Komen for the Cure, and the municipality of Jerusalem present the first-ever Israel Race for the Cure®--a highlight of the October 25-29 Israel Mission Delegation to help ignite the breast cancer movement in Israel.
19-Jul-2010
Since 1970, the Hadassah-Hebrew University Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine has educated students in public health from 84 countries, as well as Jerusalem and the Palestinian Authority. Many, once receiving their International Master of Public Health (IMPH) degree, returned to their homelands to take up prestigious positions in public health.
10-Jun-2010
With the goal of emulating Israel’s public health system as they revamp their country’s approach to public health, physicians from the Uruguayan Medical Association visited the Hadassah Medical Center in May.
9-Jun-2010
A 1994-95 graduate of the International Master of Public Health (IMPH) Program of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine has been appointed Permanent Secretary of Health in her home country, Fiji.
8-Jun-2010
In April, Hadassah, the City of Jerusalem, and Susan G. Komen for the Cure®, the world’s largest breast cancer organization, established a strategic partnership to advance global efforts to eradicate breast cancer. Israel will host the first Susan G. Komen Israel Race for the Cure®, around the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, and a week of scholarly events which will bring together health advocates and scientists from leading breast cancer groups, including Breakthrough Breast Cancer, United Kingdom, and the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.
7-Jun-2010
During an April Latin American Israel Bonds Mission to Israel, delegates visited the Hadassah Medical Center and Hadassah Mexico Board Member Renee Harari presented a statuette of Israeli Former Prime Minister Golda Meir to Hadassah Medical Center Director General Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef.
4-May-2010
Dr. Felicia Knaul, Director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative, which aims to expand cancer care and control in developing countries, visited the Hadassah Medical Center in mid-March and discussed the potential for collaborative projects with Dr. Ilana Kadmon, Hadassah’s Breast Care Clinical Nurse Specialist.
9-Apr-2010
Five journalists from major media companies in Austria visited the Hadassah Medical Center in March. In the forefront, at Hadassah Hospital-Mount Scopus, is Uschi Fellner, co-founder of the Austrian journal, News and magazine, Woman, as well as a member of the Hadassah Austria Board of Directors.
9-Apr-2010
Hadassah Austria President Susi Shaked accompanied two renowned artists on a tour of the Hadassah Medical Center--Director Hans Neuenfels and his wife, Elisabeth Trissenaar, an actress. Mr. Neuenfels, who directs operas in Salzburg, Munich, Berlin, and Beirut, wasn’t feeling well during his visit to Hadassah, Mrs. Shaked reports, but a Hadassah puppeteer ”seemed to have miraculously cured him.” He and Mrs. Trissenaar watched with fascination as the puppeteer performed at the sick children’s bedside.
5-Mar-2010
Neuroscientist Ahmed Moustafa, Ph.D., spent three months in Israel observing methodology of brain research for Parkinson’s disease at the Hadassah-Hebrew University School of Medicine and training students in conducting research at the Arab Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem. “It is sad,” he says, “that so many people do not benefit from Israel’s amazing, top-quality research because they are unaware of it and think of Israel as simply a political entity.”
