FHM News
Celebrating our 30th Year
Our 2022 Gala and Silent Auction was a huge success! Thank you for spending your evening with us as we celebrated our 30th year in Haiti and looked towards the future for women and children in Haiti. We had a record number of supporters this year, with over 300 of...
Saving the World’s Women from Cervical Cancer
On June 30, 2016 the New England Journal of Medicine published an excellent article regarding screening women in low resource countries for cervical disease. Many of the issues addressed in this journal article are consistent with what Family Health Ministries...
Duke SRT Students Engaged in Haitian Communities
As in previous years, FHM is partnering with the Duke Global Health Institute's Student Research Training (SRT) Program to conduct valuable research to inform FHM public health initiatives. Our students Caroline Keefe, Sarah Beaverson, Haley Talbot and...
UNC School of Nursing Visits FHM New Women’s Clinic
Representatives of the UNC School of Nursing, Rhonda Lanning and Leslie Hackenbracht traveled to Haiti last week with Family Health Ministries. They were in country for the opening of the new Carmelle Voltaire Women's Health Center. The Center saw more than 50...
Alumnus Spotlight: Work in Haiti Put Max Kligerman ’11 on the Path to Global Health
In 2009, Max Kligerman was a junior majoring in international relations when he joined one of the first Duke Engage teams and traveled to Haiti for the first time. That summer in Haiti not only led him to pursue a certificate in global health to go along with his...
DGHI’s David Walmer Going on Two Decades of Cervical Cancer Research in Haiti
David Walmer, associate global health professor at the Duke Global Health Institute, has long been struck by the alarmingly high incidence of cervical cancer in Haiti, despite the fact that it is highly preventable. The death rate from cervical cancer in Haiti is 30...
Duke Global Health Institute Partner Spotlight: FHM Builds Women’s Health Center in Haiti
March 15, 2016 To call David Walmer modest would be an understatement. The Duke associate professor of global health who works as a reproductive endocrinologist is fond of saying, “I am completely unqualified to be doing anything that we’re doing here (in Haiti).” But...
Birthing Center Dedication Ceremony
On Saturday, February 20th over 100 people attended the dedication ceremony for the Carmelle Voltaire Women's Health Center in Tom Gato, Haiti. Supporters from Haiti, North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Indiana, Kansas and Tennessee joined in on this joyous occasion....
Setting up Shop in Haiti
Equipment from the Duke Global Health PLUS program has arrived at the new Carmelle Voltaire Women's Health Center in Tom Gato, Haiti. The Global Health PLUS (Placement of Life Changing Usable Surplus) Program, in association with Duke Global Health Institute, affords...
Placement of Life-Changing Usable Surplus
The Global Health PLUS (Placement of Life Changing Usable Surplus) Program, in association with Duke Global Health Institute, allowed Family Health Ministries to glean hospital equipment from inventory to use for the Carmelle Voltaire Women's Health Center in...