Levine joins effort to boost training in Rwanda

PROVIDENCE – When it comes to providing health care in Rwanda, Dr. Adam Levine is an expert.
An emergency room physician at Rhode Island Hospital and director of the Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship at Brown University’s Alpert Medical School, Levine has visited the African nation many times to help Rwandans improve their health care system. Now, his assistance to Rwanda has taken a new turn.
Addressing a dire need for more health care workers recently documented by the World Health Organization, Levine is part of a new collaboration between 25 leading U.S. academic institutions and the government of Rwanda to develop the first emergency-medicine training program in that country.
The collaboration, called Rwanda Human Resources for Health, was announced in 2012 by former President Bill Clinton and Rwandan President Paul Kagame and has a budget of $150 million.
A small team of Brown University faculty will join Levine in the work. The seven-year collaboration calls for 100 American health care professionals to work alongside Rwandan faculty each year. •