more students, a sentiment
Rodriguez echoed.
“The
president
firmly
believes that anyone who works
hard should not be priced out
of a college opportunity and
college education, particularly
with the demands of today’s
economy,” Rodriguez said.
He said the administration
has also made progress by
working
to
keep
interest
payments low and cap student
loan payments at 10 percent of
their income.
As well, by putting the
Free Application of Federal
Student Aid online and making
it both easier to complete
and available three months
earlier, Rodriguez said the
administration is trying to
give
hard-working
students
as much time as possible to
search for the college that’s
right for them and receive the
aid they need.
“We will continue to work
with more communities to
strengthen education access,
affordability and success for
their students,” he said.
Ted Mitchell, U.S. under
secretary of education, also
joined the call, mentioning
how federal aid can only do
so much, and states need to
reinvest in higher education to
keep the cost of college tuition
down.
“It’s important to recognize
the
major
driver
of
the
increase in costs and the
increase in tuition prices is
a result of widespread state
disinvestment
in
higher
education
since
the
Great
Recession,” Mitchell said.
Group strives to
provide better care
to underdeveloped
areas of country
By MADELEINE GERSON
Daily Staff Reporter
The Medical School and the
School of Business have teamed
up with the goal of increasing
access
to
health
care
and
education in Sri Lanka.
For the project, the two
schools are partnering with the
Grace Care Center, a shelter
for orphan girls and the elderly
located
in
Trincomalee,
Sri
Lanka. The shelter provides
food, housing and schooling for
dozens of girls and destitute
elderly individuals, many of
whom fled war or were impacted
by a 2004 tsunami.
Business
graduate
student
Patrick
Camalo
and
Erica
Dancik, a Business and Public
Health
graduate
student,
became involved in the GCC
project
through
a
Business
School MBA class this semester
called International Business
Immersion: Healthcare Delivery
in Emerging Markets. Twenty-
five students from the class are
participating in five projects
around the world.
Camalo said the Sri Lanka
project will also include students
from the Ford School of Public
Policy and the School of Public
Health.
“We focused on looking for a
financial model for diabetes and
hypertension in a remote area of
Sri Lanka, in Trincomalee,” he
said. “We wanted to understand
the current landscape of diabetes
care and then understand what
a financially viable way was
to deliver improved care to a
broader patient population.”
Dancik said she and the
team spent time meeting with
Dr. Naresh Gunaratnam, the
shelter’s founder, before crafting
the program.
“We
then
traveled
to
Trincomalee for one week so
that we could see, first-hand,
what
the
health
landscape
looks like and so that we could
interview and interact with
some of the project’s key players
and stakeholders,” she said.
Gunaratnam,
a
gastroenterologist
at
the
University of Michigan Medical
Center who was born in Sri
Lanka, founded the GCC in
2002. He fled the country with
his family after the country
became embattled in civil war in
the 1980s.
“My father was a physician,
and
he
loved
teaching
at
the hospital in the capital,”
Gunaratnam said. “He took his
family out of the country that
he loved because he thought it
would give my brother and I a
brighter future.”
Gunaratnam’s
father,
who
passed
away
when
Gunarantam was a teenager,
served as an inspiration for
the
establishment
of
the
orphanage and elder care
center in Trincomalee.
“When I had established
myself as a physician and
had the opportunity to help
children like myself who had
lost a parent, I jumped at the
chance,”
Gunaratnam
said.
“I empathized with their loss
and knew the impact a few
caring souls could have on
their lives.”
The primary goal of the
Business
School’s
project
team is to eventually bring a
long-term health care system
to Trincomalee through two
phases, the first focused on
telemedicine and the second on
self-sufficiency and expansion.
Telemedicine is when doctors
use Skype or other technology to
provide care from afar.
As part of the collaboration,
Anjan Saha, a medical scientist
training program fellow at the
University, traveled to GCC
last December to help facilitate
a camp that provided blood
pressure
and
blood
glucose
tests to patients. Saha said
the telemedicine aspect of the
program has been very successful
in providing information to the
doctors in Sri Lanka.
“Reception for all of our
projects has been good and we
have continued to be invited
back,” Saha said.
Currently, GCC — which also
aims to safeguard the health and
safety of the local population
— is focusing their new health
care initiative on hypertension
and diabetes treatment and
prevention. The blood tests Saha
assisted with in December were
free of charge to patients and
funded by the Global Reach fund
of the UM Medical School.
A total of 35 patients received
testing,
demonstrating
the
potential for the effectiveness
of the health care delivery
program, Saha said.
While the camp was deemed
successful, Camalo said there
is more work to be done.
Affordability of care and building
trust and interest among the
Trincomalee residents are key
goals
Camalo
and
Dancik’s
team are considering. Though
primary health care in Sri Lanka
is free, there is a lack of doctors
and efficiency is a problem,
which leads to long waits and
often discourages locals from
visiting clinics.
“It is a very inefficient system,
so there is an emerging private
sector market where people have
to pay for care,” Camalo said.
“However, people do not have a
lot of money to pay for that, so it
is usually targeting the wealthy
population.”
Camalo said the team is
exploring a few ideas for creating
a sustainable financing source
for the blood-testing program.
He said one potential method
could be a monthly subscription
plan to encourage visits or a
cross-subsidized program that
would
take
payments
from
those who were more capable
of affording the care to support
the payments for lower income
individuals.
“We are trying to incentivize
different behaviors from the
patients,” Camalo said. “If they
come more frequently, we will
give them a discount. People
tend to come in only when their
diabetes is out of control due to
lack of education.”
Outside of the partnership,
students
on
campus
are
providing other forms of aid
to GCC. Student organization
GracedU was founded in 2015
by LSA sophomore Sahr Yazdani
and LSA junior Rasika Patil to
provide educational resources
and support to girls at the GCC
through
video
tutoring
and
other forms of outreach.
Yazdani has been working
for GCC for five years and
worked with the medical school
to develop “Elder Care Night,”
during
which
GCC
medical
assistants considered ways to
improve the health care of senior
citizens. Yazdani said her visit
to the shelter in the summer
of 2015 was a life-changing
experience. She made the trip
through VeAhavta, the non-
profit organization based in Ann
Arbor that helps run Grace Care
Center.
“From the moment I stepped
off the bus, the little girls clung
to my hands and legs, proudly
showing off their home and
their family,” Yazdani said. “The
girls from Grace taught me the
power of resilience — many of
them have been through the
toughest of life’s situations,
but never once did they reflect
negatively on their experiences.
They demonstrate what it means
to have courage in the face of
adversity.”
Patil said she created the club
after being inspired by the girls
of GCC.
“I recognized a motivation
within myself and my colleagues
to help foster the Grace girls’
enthusiasm
for
learning,”
Patil said. “Their dedication
to the pursuit of knowledge is
incredibly inspiring, and, in turn,
we are dedicated to providing
them with the peer support and
educational resources they need
to develop that passion.”
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Seven
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CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Refugees and
health care
WHAT: Professor from
Bilkent University
in Turkey lecturing
on how the rufugee
crisis impacts health
care in Europe.
WHO: Center for
European Studies
WHEN: 4 p.m.
to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of
Social Work, room 1636
Belgian police are still
searching for a Brussels
terrorist attack suspect,
Najim Laachraoui, who
is believed to have placed a
bomb inside the departure
terminal of the airport, CNN
reported. Laachraoui is also
linked to the November
attacks in Paris.
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Jazz concert
WHAT: University jazz
trombone quintet and jazz
ensemble perform the
music of Miles Davis and
John Coltrane. It will be
directed by Dennis Wilson
and is free with no tickets
required.
WHO: School of Music,
Theatre & Dance
WHEN: 8 p.m.
WHERE: Rackham
Graduate School Auditorium
Presidential
frontrunners
Hillary
Clinton (D) and Donald
Trump (R) each won
their
parties’
respective
primaries in Arizona, CNN
reported. Sen. Ted Cruz
(R–Texas) saw victory in
the Utah Republican caucus
and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders
(D–Vt.) won the Idaho and
Utah Democratic caucuses.
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Teaching race
WHAT: Roundtable
discussion with faculty
about challenges and
strategies of teaching
race and media. The event
will strive to create a
conversation about race.
WHO: Department
of American Culture,
Latina/Latino Studies
WHEN: 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
WHERE: North
Quad, room 2435
Politics of
economic
inequality
WHAT: Columbia University
visiting Prof. Andreas
Wimmer presenting on
“ethno-political inequality.”
WHO: Department of
Political Science
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
WHERE: Haven Hall,
Room 5670
Mock law class
WHAT: Richard
Bierschbach, Yeshiva
University law vice
dean and professor,
will teach a mock law
class on whether or not
corporations should have
constitutional rights.
WHO: The Career Center
WHEN: 12 p.m.
to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: Union
Pond Room
JPMorgan
Chase
breakfast
WHAT: Chance for
students with diverse
backgrounds to network
with JPMorgan Chase.
WHO: Career Center
WHEN: 9 a.m.
to 10:30 a.m.
WHERE: League
Hussey Room
CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES
Poetry talk
WHAT: Michigan State
University Prof. Catherine
Ryu examines the relationship
between Japanese court
poetry and anime.
WHO: Center for Japanese
Studies
WHEN: 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
WHERE: School of Social
work, room 1636
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WHAT: Economics
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Bartelme lecturing
on scale economies in
international trade.
WHO: Department of
Economics
WHEN: 4 p.m. to 5:30
p.m.
WHERE: Haven Hall,
room 5670
The Michigan Swimming and
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