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This case uses a role play simulation to illustrate ethical implications when research practices violate cultural taboos and norms. In Who Owns Your Story? the Trilanyi – a fictional Native American tribe based on a real community that is not…

This case follows the vaccine development for Meningitis A, a disease that routinely caused deadly epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa. The case explores why such a vaccine had not been developed previously and how the creation of the Meningitis Vaccine…

This case examines the United Nations’ reactions to the cholera epidemic in Haiti and illuminates contemporary gaps in global governance. In January, 2010, an earthquake devastated Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The public…

This case describes efforts to balance public health concerns with religious and cultural practices of religion pilgrims in India. The Kumbh Mela festival, the largest mass gathering in the world, takes place every 12 years in Allahabad, India. Pilgrims…

This case tracks Dr. Sam Thenya’s challenges in establishing and sustaining two Kenyan health organizations for women’s health. Thenya founded the Gender Violence Recovery Centre (GVRC) and the Nairobi Women’s Hospital (NWH) Medical Training College. In…

This case explores Nigerian attorney Hauwa Ibrahim’s defense of a woman charged with adultery by Islamic Shariah law. One of Nigeria’s first female lawyers, Ibrahim develops a strategy to defend a young married woman, Amina Lawal, against adultery…

In October 2008, Dr. Richard Mgaga, Head of the Malaria Control Programme in Uganda reviewed the monthly malaria statistics report for the district of Apac, which in April of 2008 had undergone a pilot indoor residual spraying (IRS) program using DDT in…

This case presents organizational challenges facing a physician champion of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH). Dr. Julian Kuffler, working with his employer, the Mount Desert Island Hospital System (MDI), hoped to persuade the primary care…

This case provides an introduction to the structure and dynamics of nonprofit hospital governance in the U.S. A hospital CEO two years into her position is grappling with how to make her board a more effective governing body. The hospital’s competitive…

At the June 2007, Central City Medical Group (CCMG) board meeting, Deb Moore, Executive Director, reported that there were mounting tensions caused by the implementation of an electronic health record (EHR). Physician morale and productivity were…