On August 3, 2023, during World Breastfeeding Week, Fundación Éxito in alliance with Fundación Baylor Colombia and Salutia, held a social mobilization event, featuring a Knowledge Dialogue on breast feeding with a guest panel of invited attendees at the comprehensive health center of Fundación Baylor Colombia. Knowledge Dialogues, or intercultural dialogues, are a method of communication and exchange between groups of people or communities with the aim to improve access to health services and build intercultural trust and health outcomes. In Colombia, this is an important route for community education among indigenous groups.

The University of Botswana graduated its first Ph.D. scientist from the Collaborative African Genomics Network (CAfGEN) on Monday, Nov. 1, in Gaborone, Botswana. This achievement speaks directly to the recently renewed agreement between Baylor College of Medicine and University of Botswana and the institutions’ mutual desire to build scientist-leader capacity.

Texas Children’s affirmed its Global Health partnership with the Republic of Botswana and praised our mutual commitment to children and families during a recent visit from President Mokgweetsi Masisi and a delegation of Botswanan leaders.

Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Botswana renewed their longstanding partnership last week during a visit from the president of the Republic of Botswana to Houston and the College.

A new generation of talented physicians, residents and health care professionals participated this summer in Texas Children’s Global Health Pre-Service Training in preparation for long-term clinical placements at network sites in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America.

Texas Children’s Global Health partners at the Area 25 Health Centre in Malawi planted giant bamboo seedlings in its permaculture garden to recognize Earth Day, and to celebrate the lasting connections between human and environmental health.

An average of 20 babies are delivered each day at the health centre in the Malawian capital city of Lilongwe, where Texas Children’s and Baylor College of Medicine launched a Global Women’s Health program in 2012 in partnership with the Ministry of Health of Malawi and Baylor Foundation Malawi.