Yale Global PICU Collaborative
The Yale Global PICU Collaborative’s purpose is to enhance global pediatric critical care access and capacity through education, training, and research. Engaging in collaborative, equitable partnerships, the group seeks to promote interdisciplinary stakeholder engagement, project co-development and co-leadership with local program sites, to achieve sustainable impact. Motivated by our values, several of our faculty and other team members have developed long-term collaborations with various institutions around the globe, some of which we highlight below. In addition, Yale attracts and mentors critical care fellows with experience and interests in global health and international collaboration.
Dr. Canarie, a former Peace Corps volunteer who has studied international relations, works to enhance pediatric critical care capacity in low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) principally through education and training. Partnering with a group of global clinician-educators to create PCCiRLS.com, this global network conducts biweekly interactive teaching sessions for residents and other caregivers at sites in sub-Saharan Africa and Haiti. Dr. Canarie has done extensive clinical and educational work in Haiti since 2010 and has a long history of supporting PCC in Rwanda, beginning with work for the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Program. He also helps to develop and provide educational support and training for post-graduate critical care programs in East Africa and has engaged in short-term critical care courses at multiple sites around the world.
Dr. Ebbs has an extensive background in community participatory models in global health and is the cofounder of MGY, a 501c3 (Est. 2011) that aims to build local capacity for sustainable community health worker training programs utilizing mobile health. Dr. Ebbs primarily works in Northern Uganda and the Peruvian Amazon. Dr. Ebbs' current research focuses on the development of prehospital risk prediction models in limited resource settings to identify seriously ill children. He is also working on several community participatory research projects that include the co-development of a framework for community ethics training in participatory research in low-income countries.
Dr. Ijaz's research focuses on the development and implementation of medical oxygen and respiratory care systems in LMIC. As Visiting Faculty at Aga Khan University, he is currently collaborating with colleagues in Karachi, Pakistan, to develop and test strategies for the implementation of bubble continuous positive airway pressure (a low-cost form of respiratory support) for children with severe pneumonia.
In collaboration with PICUs in India and Guatemala, Dr. Karam investigates transfusion strategies within the constraints of local blood donation systems and the scarcity of available blood. These challenges underscore the critical need to optimize healthcare practices in LMIC where resources are limited. Additionally, Dr. Karam is exploring platelet transfusion strategies for Dengue patients, aiming to establish effective protocols in regions heavily affected by the disease, where information on appropriate transfusion practices is vital. Dr. Karam is also a consultant for Doctors without Borders, helping providing care to critically ill children in LMIC.
Dr. Faustino was born and raised in the Philippines. He completed his medical education at the University of the Philippines-College of Medicine and pediatric residency at the Philippine General Hospital. He is currently a Visiting Professor of Pediatrics at the University of the Philippines-College of Medicine. Dr. Faustino has expertise in patient-oriented research and biostatistics. He is actively involved in the general pediatric, pediatric critical care and research training in the Philippines.