Guatemala Health Initiative

19/07/2025

🚨 Code Azul! What happens when a hospital doesn’t have a formal emergency protocol? You build one—together. Guatemala Health Initiative and Hospitalito Atitlán

Last year, GHI Global Health Fellow Dr. Saad Siddiqui noticed that Hospitalito Atitlán didn’t have a system for code response. So he got to work:
📦 Built the emergency “code box”
📝 Helped develop an emergency protocol
👩‍⚕️ Trained with the HA team
👨‍⚕️ Welcomed support from volunteer anesthesiologists

The HA staff ran with it. They adapted and refined the process until it became their own. And now, they’re implementing it—in real life.

In these photos, the team checks the box and gets into position to meet an incoming ambulance. (We’re not showing the ambulance or patient for privacy.)

This is what partnership and sustained community health development looks like.

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Penn Medicine University of Pennsylvania

16/07/2025

GHI first travelled to Santiago in 2005. Here’s a look back at the town festival that year.

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12/07/2025

🎉 We’re HALFWAY to 100 donors! 🎉
Thanks to 50 incredible supporters, the Guatemala Health Initiative is surging forward. 💪🌎

🚨 Now, we need 50 more to help us cross the finish line. Can you be one of them?

Your gift fuels:
✅ More life-changing education programs for US and Guatemala students
✅ The sustainability of our Global Health Fellowship
✅ Community-based research with real health impact
✅ Lasting partnerships in Atitlán and across Guatemala

Together, we’re shaping the next generation of global health leaders—curious, action-driven, and deeply rooted in community.

🕒 We have just a few weeks left to meet our goal. Please give today and share this post to help us grow the GHI network.

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11/07/2025

Who is with GHI this month?

While students and community members work hard all year, there is some fun for the Town Fair for Saint James Day, the patron Saint.

The town is starting to set up the fair. "T-14 days"

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17/05/2025

🎉 Shout out to Jane Dobkin, , Celine Cu***ng, Brian Sajorda, Jorge Gutiérrez, and all the who once journeyed to Santiago Atitlán with GHI! Celebrating 20 years of GHI!!!

Whether you were there for spring break, a summer of research, or a year of deep exchange, you helped build something lasting and create change.

If you’re on campus for —welcome home. 💙
Join us at Harnwell College House at 3PM today for tea, sandwiches, and shared stories.


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15/05/2025

🌊 40 Donors and Rising! 🌡️
We’re almost halfway to our goal of 💯 donors for the Guatemala Health Initiative’s 20th anniversary! Join Us.

This photo captures Drs. Kent Bream and Fran Barg on Lake Atitlán—two decades of partnership, mentorship, and unwavering commitment to change in Guatemala. Their work has shaped the lives of students, patients, and communities alike. The future really is bright!

Help us reach the next 60 donors and keep this legacy going strong. 💙

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📍 Tagging

14/05/2025

🌸 Belated but deeply heartfelt...

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms—biological and chosen—who have cared for students over the years.

Our bidirectional exchanges thrive because of the love and support of host mothers in Guatemala and student hosts at Penn. You make this work possible.

Gracias, maltiox, and thank you, for being home wherever we go. 💙

09/05/2025

We just can't stop until we hit 💯. We need 100 donors to vote for and . Hospitalito Atitlán

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08/05/2025

👏🎯🫶👉👉25% of the way to our goal of 💯 donors. Our goal is 💯 donors in 💯 days to support international collaboration through nursing education, JUNAM Fellows, and bidirectional exchanges. PLEASE join us. https://givingpages.upenn.edu/GHI20

Our field school has produced senior theses (2008 crew pictured here), published manuscripts, celebrated new doctors, and instigated global health careers.

tbt: Here is a flash from 2008 with Sabrina Aggarwal, Jason Nagata, , Fran Barg, and

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07/05/2025

Join us as we are Building Momentum with ! Help us reach 💯 donors in 💯 days so GHI can:
1. Continue bidirectional exchanges between University of Pennsylvania and Guatemala partners
2. Support nursing education, and
3. Build the JUNAM Fellowship and so much more.


Be . Join us today

A Community Health Partnership for Health and Community Development- Supporting Collaborative Research, Innovative Education, Clinical Service, and International Exchange

05/05/2025

Please support in contributing to students becoming change makers. (link below) Today we celebrate 2 of our >200 alumni. Christina Roldan and Arnav Shah. Christina and Arnav spent a summer internship learning research skills and contributing to in Santiago in 2016.

Like so many , they went on to medical school (University of Miami and Temple University) are now in residency: with the U.S. Air Force Medical Service - AFMS at Rush University Medical Center.

Congratulations Drs. Roldan and Shah!

Please support future GHIers as they train for their future careers in medicine, nursing, public health, global health, law, design, business....

Give here: https://givignpages.upenn.edu/GHI20

Our goal is 100 donors, thank you in anticipation of your support.

05/05/2025

Thanks for an amazing weekend taking us to 24 donors. GHI is aiming for ; 100 donors in 100 days celebrating Easter to Feria de Santiago for our 20th anniversary. Thank you for everyone who has helped us get here. Please join the team and vote to and experiences.



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