Global Reach: Worldwide Initiative for Rh Disease Eradication (WIRhE) - Various locations

Our mission is to eradicate Rh disease around the world. This objective can be reached through three types of actions: encourage ongoing life-saving projects, enable healthcare workers to care for mothers and babies by providing them with the appropriate tools and guidelines, empower Rh- mothers and families by giving them access to fundamental information about Rh disease and prevention.

Mentors: Steven Spitalnik, MD and Brie Stotler, MD

Research opportunities available:
Summer Research Projects

Thematic Research Areas:
Adolescent Health, Education, and Maternal and Child Health

Global Pop funds students from the following CUIMC Schools at this site:
VP&S

Language requirement:
No

Potential activities that could be carried out by students participating in this project:
Developing web content for the WIRhE website (www.wirhe.org), which needs educational and practical content for patients, physicians, nurses, midwives, donors, etc. to raise awareness, educate individuals and groups, and support research endeavors around the world in the effort to eradicate Rh disease. The web content will include educational text, videos, and photographs to serve as a centralized source for information about Rh disease for the global health community. The initial goal is to create this content in English and then have it translated into multiple languages by international members of WIRhE; of course, if the student is fluent in a foreign language, they could also participate in these efforts. Creation of an educational curriculum about Rh disease is also of interest in collaboration with colleagues at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.