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October 11, 2007

Center for Global Health hosts photo exhibit with Interplast at Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, in conjunction with Interplast, announces a photo exhibit being hosted at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The exhibit will be open Thursday, October 11 - Friday, October 19 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. weekdays in the East and Miles Rooms off the Turner Concourse and is open to the Hopkins community and the public.

The exhibit features photos illustrating the work of Interplast. Interplast is a non-profit humanitarian organization that provides free reconstructive surgeries for children with clefts, burns, and disabling hand injuries and has provided 68,000 life-changing surgeries for those living in underserved countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Internationally-acclaimed photographer Phil Borges created the poignant photo display of Interplast's medical teams treating children in Vietnam and Peru. Accounts of the renewed hope and joy shared by the patients, their families, and the volunteers are captured with the moving photos. The photos are also contained in a book, The Gift, available from Interplast.

The Center of Global Health felt this display was important to bring to the Hopkins community to illustrate that people in developing countries need assistance with a variety of medical needs, and that there are opportunities for all trained medical professionals to volunteer their time to make a difference in the lives of children. Interplast's medical teams include volunteer doctors, nurses, and surgeons, and several members of the Hopkins community have volunteered on their missions.

Visit Interplast's website to learn more about their mission. 

About the Center
The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health was launched in May 2006 to facilitate and focus the extensive expertise and resources of the Johns Hopkins Institutions, together with global collaborators, to effectively address and ameliorate the world's most pressing health issues.

The Center bridges the international work of the university's Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine and School of Nursing and is the first such center anywhere to combine the strengths of top-ranked schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health.

The Center for Global Health helps to broker collaboration among nearly two dozen existing programs in the three schools; together, those programs already operate more than 400 projects around the world. The Center also seeks out and secures funding for new initiatives and recruits faculty to address emerging global health issues. It also puts students out into the field to work shoulder-to-shoulder with faculty mentors, where they can train most effectively to become the next generation of leaders in global health.

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