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I recently had the opportunity to watch a Microclinic (MC) session in action. The setting was in Amman Jordan. On Monday, March 4 2012, at 8 am, I was picked up at my hotel by Ala’, a young nutritionist who works for Microclinic International (MCI). She explained to me that she was the featured speaker for that day, and planned to discuss fundamentals of nutrition with the MC participants. We headed to a community hospital in one of the Hills of old Amman, and found our way to a small meeting room barely large enough to hold the 25 or so attendees.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Global Health Research, Policy, and Practice

Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan visited with participants in MCI's (formerly GMCP) microclinics in an effort to promote healthy lifestyles in Jordan.

See the article on her visit on the Jordan Times website: Queen highlights importance of healthy lifestyles in addressing diabetes.

Effective immediately, the Global Micro-Clinic Project (GMCP) will become Microclinic International (MCI). The primary objective of the branding change is to engage communities with our vision to make good health contagious by establishing networks of microclinics in less resourced areas of our world.

Since 2005, Microclinic International has worked with local communities to organize groups of friends, families, and neighbors to learn together, support each other, and share resources as they build a healthier homes and communities. We call these groups “microclinics.”

In an effort to help promote healthier lifestyles and lifelong well-being, the Microclinic International (formerly the Global Micro-Clinic Project or GMCP), Citizen Effect, and Humana have teamed up to create a well-being program in Kentucky. A pilot is slated to start by fall 2011.

Fellowship Context and MCI Background Information:
 
The Blum Center at the University of California, Berkeley working in cooperation with UCB's School of Public Health are proud to announce the Clausen GMCP Fellowships.
 
The Clausen Fellowship is made possible through the generosity of Mr. and Mrs. A.W. (Tom) and Helen Clausen.  This competitive fellowship will be awarded to one outstanding student from UC Berkeley at the graduate or undergraduate level.
 

MCI Founder, President, and CEO Daniel Zoughbie is profiled by the Rainer Arnhold Fellows. See the article at http://www.rainerfellows.org/?q=Fellows/Daniel-Zoughbie.

      From June to July 2010, over 400 residents of Mfangano Island enrolled in the Ekialo Kiona Club! The Voluntary Counseling and Testing-World Cup Program was a great success, with over 400 people tested--more than any other Suba District VCT Clinic in this time period. To be a member of the Ekialo Kiona Club, you need to be a resident of Mfangano Island and know your HIV status every six months.
 

Daniel Zoughbie, Founder, President, and CEO of the Global Micro-Clinic Project spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative University 2010 Working Session on Public Health: "The Push for Proximity: Mobilizing Communities to Action for Health."
 
A video of the session can be found at:
http://www.cgiu.org/multimedia/webcasts/2010/
 
Photos of the event are on the GMCP's Picasa page:

MCI releases its first working paper by Chas Salmen, The Organic Health Response-Global Micro-Clinic Project HIV/AIDS Initiative Director.

The paper, titled The Obesity Famine: The Dual Burden of Nutritional Insecurity in Transition covers how obesity has emerged as a real public health threat in industrialized nations, and how these issues of obesity and malnutrition affect people in developing countries and transitioning societies.

Abstract:

Selected as a 2010 TED Fellow, Daniel Zoughbie, the Founder, CEO, and President of the GMCP receives a short profile in Businessweek. Click here.

Daniel Zoughbie, the Founder and CEO of the Global Micro-Clinic Project (GMCP) speaks at the 2010 TED Fellows session on GMCP's micro-clinic model. Building on a philosophy of "contagious health," the GMCP works to empower people to prevent and manage disease in impoverished areas of our world.

Founder and CEO of the Global Micro-Clinic Project (GMCP), Daniel Zoughbie is selected as a 2010 TED Fellow. Zoughbie and the GMCP are acknowledged for this honor for their work preventing and managing diseases in the developing world using low-cost behavioral interventions.
 
Text from the official TED Fellows press release is below: