MEDICC


MEDICC is a non-profit organization founded in 1997 that works to enhance cooperation among the US, Cuban and global health communities through its programs.
MEDICC supports education and development of human resources in health committed to equitable access and quality care, providing the Cuban experience to inform global debate, practice, policies and cooperation in health.
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History

MEDICC was founded in 1997 to foster communication and cooperation between the United States and Cuban medical and public health communities, with the aim of promoting health equity by studying evidence from Cuba.
From 1997–2004, MEDICC built a program around the medical and public health schools in the two countries, which generated new collaborations in research, teaching, clinical practice, and health policy. For several years, MEDICC's core program constituted elective courses in Cuba for US medical, public health and nursing students, with an academic council composed equally of US and Cuban medical educators overseeing course content.
By 2004, nearly 1,000 students from 125 US medical, nursing, and public health schools had traveled to Cuba for two- to eight-week courses—mainly placing students with family physicians throughout the island. A number of faculty members and health professionals also traveled to Cuba to research the country's health system model. In 2004, when the administration of George W. Bush suspended student travel to Cuba, MEDICC was forced to eliminate the student exchange and other student-faculty travel programs.

Publications

Writings and Broadcasts by MEDICC Board, Staff & Scholars

  • —Bourne, Peter G. January, 2009. Center for Democracy in the Americas.
  • "Salud Para Todo: Cuba’s Revolutionary Approach Towards the Fulfillment of the Right to Health"—Evans, Dabney P. 2008. In Patricia Cholewka, Mitra M Motlagh, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press
  • —Gorry, C. Oxfam, July 2008.
  • —Gorry, C. Oxfam, julio 2008.
  • Social Medicine in Practice, Vol 3 No.1, January 2008
  • —Gorry, C. HealthLink. March 2007;143.
  • —Appelbaum, D., Kligler, B., Barrett, B., Frenkel, M., Guerrera, M.P., Kondwani, K.A., Lee, B.B. & Tattelman, E. Academic Medicine, 2006;81:1098-103.

Writings by MEDICC's Professional Bridges Participants

UCSF Faculty Get Insiders' Look at Cuban Health Care System—Robin Hindery, UCSF Today, January 2009Medical Education & Health Equity: An Opportunity for the New Administration—Fitzhugh Mullan, MD, Murdock Head Professor of Medicine and Health Policy, Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University, Washington DC, Health Affairs, The Policy Journal of the Health Sphere, December 2008Integrating health and human security into foreign policy: Cuba's Surprisng Success—Robert Huish and Jerry Spiegel, The International Journal of Cuban Studies, Volum 1, Issue 1, June 2008Can Lessons Learned from a Cuban Experience Improve Health Disparities in South Los Angeles?—Fred Dominguez, MD, MPH & Alex N. Ortega, PhD, Ethnicity & Disease, Volume 18, Spring 2008