David Cechetto continues frontline health care training in Rwanda and Burundi with $8.9-million grant
David Cechetto, BSc’74, BA’78, PhD’84, professor, Anatomy and Cell Biology, has worked with Rwandan officials since 2000 to help rebuild the country’s health care system. Cechetto is now training frontline health care workers in Rwanda and Burundi to treat the most common causes of infant and maternal mortality as the Director of Training, Support and Access Model for Maternal Newborn and Child Health in Rwanda and Burundi (TSAM).
Thanks to an $8.9-million grant from Global Affairs Canada as part of the Partnerships for Strengthening Maternal, Newborn and Child Health program, Cechetto will continue his work focused on training health care providers to assess and treat common and critical health care factors directly tied to maternal and child health outcomes, such as hemorrhaging, hypertension, pre-eclampsia, eclampsia, sepsis, infant infection and poor nutrition.
