Engeye Health Clinic in Uganda Partners with UIC College of Medicine and the International Emergency Medicine and Health Fellowship Program

The Engeye Health Clinic (EHC) in Uganda has announced that its latest project is a partnership with the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine and the International Emergency Medicine and Health Fellowship program in the department of Emergency Medicine to initiate a global health program.  This program aims to provide an international clinical experience for UIC medical students and to help build sustainable programs and projects with the goal of improving the health of the surrounding community and country.

The first trip to EHC will be in August 2010, and will be comprised of a team of attending physicians with extensive global health experience and medical students from UIC.  The upcoming August 2010 trip will include a clinical component where students will be exposed to the health needs of the Ddegeya Village community surrounding the Engeye Health Clinic.   The main health issues that the Engeye Health Clinic faces are malnutrition, HIV/AIDS, malaria, women’s health and mother/baby health.  The team will also be conducting an assessment of the community to help plan for future cooperation with EHC.  The goal of the partnership is to ensure that any interested UIC medical student will have the opportunity to gain exposure to global health.

To learn more about the upcoming trip to EHC in Uganda, please contact Meredith Hill, MS3 at: meredith.lynne.hill@gmail.com or Janet Lin, MD, MPH at jlin7@uic.edu.

About the Engeye Health Clinic

The Engeye Health Clinic is located in Ddegeya Village in southern Uganda. Engeye’s mission is to improve living conditions and reduce unnecessary suffering in rural Africa through education and compassionate health care.  In every project undertaken, it is implicit that it will ultimately be sustainable with little or no outside assistance, and that it will be accomplished free of the imposition of any foreign social, political, or spiritual values. The main clinic building and two volunteer houses were constructed during the summer of 2006 with funds from an inheritance from the grandmother of Engeye Health Clinic’s co-founder, Dr. Stephanie Van Dyke. John Kalule, a native Ugandan, co-founded the Engeye Health Clinic, and today manages the daily operations of the Clinic.  Dr. Stephanie Van Dyke, Dr. Carlos Elguero, John Leisure, Jay Shah, Misty Richards, Anny Su and Stephen Po-Chedley comprise the Board of Directors for the 501(c) (3) tax deductible, nonprofit organization.  For more information, visit: