Dr. Adrian Gardner is the Director of the IU Center for Global Health Equity and Director of the AMPATH Consortium. He is an infectious diseases specialist who earned his MD from Brown University and his MPH from Harvard. Adrian first engaged with the AMPATH partnership as a medical student at Brown in 2001 and sought every opportunity to return to Kenya, eventually serving as team leader in 2006. He served as AMPATH’s executive field director from 2012-2020.

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1 00:00:01,280 --> 00:00:02,410 - My name is Adrian Gardner. 2 00:00:02,410 --> 00:00:05,350 I'm an infectious disease physician here at IU. 3 00:00:05,350 --> 00:00:08,120 I've been based in Kenya for the last seven years 4 00:00:08,120 --> 00:00:10,670 as the executive field director for the AMPATH Consortium. 5 00:00:10,670 --> 00:00:14,010 The Consortium's a group of North American institutions 6 00:00:14,010 --> 00:00:15,710 that partner together under the leadership 7 00:00:15,710 --> 00:00:18,220 of Indiana University and ultimately partner together 8 00:00:18,220 --> 00:00:21,160 with Moi Teaching & Referral Hospital and Moi University, 9 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:22,810 particularly the college of health sciences. 10 00:00:22,810 --> 00:00:24,010 I'm a bit of an AMPATH lifer. 11 00:00:24,010 --> 00:00:28,450 I went first Eldoret in 2001 as a medical student 12 00:00:28,450 --> 00:00:32,917 from Brown University and then returned in 2006-2007 13 00:00:34,380 --> 00:00:37,540 for a year as the internal medicine team leader 14 00:00:37,540 --> 00:00:40,390 and I was going back and forth working tuberculosis 15 00:00:40,390 --> 00:00:43,730 and HIV and then returned full-time in 2012 16 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:46,740 as the executive field director. 17 00:00:46,740 --> 00:00:49,600 I caught the bug in 2001 as a student. 18 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:53,440 I think it just, it's a very unique model of engagement 19 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:57,910 in global health and it gives us all an opportunity 20 00:00:57,910 --> 00:01:02,080 to engage in direct patient care and that mission 21 00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:03,170 of leading with care. 22 00:01:03,170 --> 00:01:06,310 Creating a platform for education and research, 23 00:01:06,310 --> 00:01:11,310 but the concept of leading with care was very appealing. 24 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,530 Yeah, so IU and through the AMPATH partnership 25 00:01:16,620 --> 00:01:20,060 have really had a major impact on the HIV epidemic 26 00:01:20,060 --> 00:01:23,350 and really health systems in western Kenya. 27 00:01:23,350 --> 00:01:25,700 I think there's no question that AMPATH was one 28 00:01:27,099 --> 00:01:30,040 of the leaders in providing HIV care in the beginning 29 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:34,480 and because of the institutional partnership 30 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,630 that we had, we were able to rapidly scale up 31 00:01:37,630 --> 00:01:40,370 our HIV treatment program in a way that really 32 00:01:42,070 --> 00:01:43,910 made a huge difference in people's lives 33 00:01:43,910 --> 00:01:47,560 and there's still significant amounts of stigma 34 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,130 and there are still people who delay coming 35 00:01:49,130 --> 00:01:52,790 to seek care because of lack of disclosure 36 00:01:52,790 --> 00:01:55,660 or concern about stigma. 37 00:01:55,660 --> 00:01:57,830 It's definitely gotten better than it used to be, 38 00:01:57,830 --> 00:02:01,053 but there's still some ways to go. 39 00:02:02,220 --> 00:02:04,983 My favorite part of working with AMPATH is really 40 00:02:06,410 --> 00:02:07,500 the people that we work with. 41 00:02:07,500 --> 00:02:10,750 We have an amazing team, both Kenyans and North Americans 42 00:02:10,750 --> 00:02:12,810 and we have a great community of people that are all 43 00:02:12,810 --> 00:02:15,370 striving to work in the same direction 44 00:02:15,370 --> 00:02:20,370 to try and improve care and education and do groundbreaking 45 00:02:21,500 --> 00:02:24,380 research that can inform care models in sub-Saharan 46 00:02:24,380 --> 00:02:27,070 Africa and other parts of the world. 47 00:02:27,070 --> 00:02:29,140 So being part of a team where we're all feeling 48 00:02:29,140 --> 00:02:30,500 like we're moving in the same direction 49 00:02:30,500 --> 00:02:33,910 and unified in our vision is really 50 00:02:33,910 --> 00:02:35,590 the most important thing. 51 00:02:35,590 --> 00:02:38,430 And I think the opportunity to really touch patients 52 00:02:38,430 --> 00:02:40,120 and make a huge difference in someone's life 53 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,830 when you're dealing with that level of poverty, 54 00:02:42,830 --> 00:02:45,180 it's very easy to make a huge difference in someone's 55 00:02:45,180 --> 00:02:49,000 life by something very simple and that's very meaningful 56 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,178 and rewarding because you get that immediate feedback.
Each year Kenyan medical and dental students from Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya, spend several weeks learning and building connections at Indiana University.
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Leadership from IU School of Medicine and IU Health visit the AMPATH partnership in Eldoret, Kenya. IU has led a consortium of North American academic health centers in partnership with Moi University and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital for 30 years.

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