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MCD Global Health
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Improving the health and well-being of people worldwide through enduring, high-quality, cost-effective, and universally accessible public health solutions! Learn more: mcd.org
📍Headquarters: Hallowell, Maine, U.S.
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📣The @who.int's 2025 World Malaria Report is available!📣 One MILLION lives were saved from malaria in 2024 alone, yet malaria remains a serious global health challenge, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. 👉Read it: https://loom.ly/UjbnlcU #GlobalHealth #WMR2025
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December 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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🎉Today is #IDPD #IDPwD 🎉, a reminder that accessibility in health care isn’t optional, it’s essential. People with disabilities face avoidable barriers when seeking care and screenings. Screening for All is working to create more accessibility for everyone👉 https://loom.ly/c3mrIi8
Photo of patient with disabilities sitting on exam table with female doctor using stethoscope in office setting. Below: blue graphic with text: Screening for All making preventable screenings accessible for everyone International Day of Persons with Disabilities and logo. MCD and screening for all logos
December 3, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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📣 Use your lived experience as a leadership tool! Don’t miss this FREE session on using storytelling to advocate, build trust &lead change.
📅Noon–1 pm (ET) Dec. 9 on Zoom.
🚨Seats are limited! Registration closes Dec. 5!
📣REGISTER HERE: https://loom.ly/kHS-l7w #HealthEquity #FreeWebinar
blue background with two photos of females posing for the camera in yellow bordered circles. Text: Storytelling as Leadership December 9, 2025 noon-1 p.m. Join us for our first session of Connector Conversations! Learn how to use storytelling to advocate, build connections, and foster change. Cristina Leal Sr. program manager and Zakiya Sheikh Community outreach and training coordinator. MCD logo and connector conversations logo
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Gabon’s military health services and national HIV program are strengthening how they work together, with support from MCD, to improve coordination, align treatment guidelines, and ensure people living with HIV receive high-quality care👉 https://loom.ly/Z8Ks-KI #AIDSAwarenessMonth #HIVAwareness
Photo of people in military uniforms posing for a photo in Gabon. Black and red graphic with text: HIV/AIDS PREVENTION IN GABON Strengthening collaboration to improve HIV care in Gabon. Improving coordination, increasing efficiency, and ensuring consistent care across the country
December 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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AIDS is NOT over!
👉Over 40M people are living with HIV globally
👉10M people are waiting for HIV treatment
👉1.3M people acquired HIV in 2024

This #WorldAIDSDay, leaders must reaffirm their commitment to end AIDS and support countries and communities. Learn more: https://loom.ly/MUtPOJs
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December 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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We share the same goal as millions around the world🌍: to end the HIV epidemic. This #WorldAIDSDay, read the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and Federal Implementation Plan for information on how we can work to better coordinate our response to the HIV epidemic👉 https://loom.ly/0wjc3js #GlobalHealth
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December 1, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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✨We’re grateful for our amazing staff, partners, and community organizations and leaders who work alongside us to make healthier futures for all✨. Progress in public and global health is never something we can achieve alone🌍. Thank you for being part of this important work! 👏
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November 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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📣This #NationalRuralHealthDay, we're spotlighting our Project ECHO program that fosters a real-time, interdisciplinary learning community where providers present real cases, gain feedback from specialists, and share strategies with peers! 👉Learn more: https://loom.ly/7DxtUNU #PowerOfRural
graphic with hands overlapping themselves and the project ECHO logo in the middle with the text: Why Project ECHO® is Right for Rural Behavioral Health 1. Flexible delivery meets rural workflow realities. The ECHO series is designed to accommodate the way you already work 2. Multidisciplinary participation breaks down silos. The ECHO model mirrors how interdisciplinary care teams actually function 3. Asynchronous and low-bandwidth options increase access. The structure is designed to work around internet challenges 4. Live learning communities combat professional isolation. Project ECHO provides ongoing, structure mentorship. 5. Local cases make learning directly relevant. Every ECHO session includes a local, real-world case presentation from a participating clinic. 6. Proven model with measurable outcomes. Project ECHO is an evidence-based model in the literature.
November 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🚽This #WorldToiletDay, 3.4 billion people around the world still lack safe, hygienic toilets. Reliable sanitation protects health and dignity, and many communities are still being left behind. 👉Learn about our WASH work: https://loom.ly/qvWQasU #Sanitation #SanitationHygiene #GlobalHealth
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November 19, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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📣WE’RE HIRING for a chief operating officer to manage finance, program operations, and business development! This position will be fully remote in the U.S. ➡️Apply today: https://loom.ly/6laC4nY #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #Hiring #HiringNow #RemoteJobs #Operations
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November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Community health workers are vital links between the communities they serve and needed health services🩺. To ensure they have the skills they need, we offer an online module covering type 2 diabetes, daily management & more: https://loom.ly/tN6_B7A #WorldDiabetesDay #DiabetesDay #DiabetesAwareness
photo of female nurse taking blood sample from female patient for blood sugar. Text: Online Module: Diabetes Community health workers (CHWs): Learn everything you need to know about helping patients manage their diabetes in this online course!
November 14, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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🎉MCD staff presented a total of 10 posters and 1 oral presentation on the Bioko Island Malaria Elimination Project at the @astmh.bsky.social Annual Conference in Toronto earlier this week! Learn more👉 https://loom.ly/76JRRMQ #TropMed25 #Malaria #GlobalHealth
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November 13, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Pregnant women and young children are especially vulnerable to malaria. In Niger, MCD helped train nearly 200 midwives and gynecologists to improve care and protect expectant mothers from malaria! 👉More: https://loom.ly/GGf7FKE #GlobalHealth #EndMalaria #WomensHealth #ChildrensHealth
Photo of women sitting in a waiting room with a man on a laptop in Niger. Text: “Given the low national coverage rate of IPTp3, this training was delivered at a critical time. As trainers and supervisors, we identified gaps in the mastery of biological diagnostic techniques and adherence to the malaria management protocol.” — Abdou Hima Malaria Coordinator MCD Training Participant
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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🎉We had a blast at this year's New England Rural Health Association Annual Conference in Connecticut! Several of our staff presented on their projects, including Project ECHO, perinatal mental health support, telehealth access points, and more! 👉 https://loom.ly/76JRRMQ #PublicHealth #NERHA2025
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November 6, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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MCD's Courtney Vannah presented on the growing independent practice dental hygienist (IPDH) workforce within the MaineCare dental provider network during a COHN-sponsored University of Maine Dental Hygiene Program course! #DentalHealth #OralHealth #WorkforceDevelopment
photo of a woman presenting a screen with bar graphics to an audience. Text: From 2023-24, the independent practice dental hygienists workforce in Maine had an increase of 8 new licensed providers and 7K+ MaineCare patients being seen! MCD and COHN logos
November 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Danielle Louder joined a panel at MaineHealth last week for Governor Mills’ Task Force on AI. Highlights: tele-AI triage, predictive analytics for chronic disease, and a vision for a shared AI Resource Hub to help rural health systems scale. Connect to collaborate! #HealthAI #RuralHealth #Telehealth
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November 3, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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One in four U.S. adults lives with a disability, yet millions still face barriers to preventive care.
Screening For All helps health care workers make preventive screenings more accessible to every patient. ➡️Learn how to close these gaps: https://loom.ly/5fnL69E
#healthcare #patients #caregivers
A square graphic with text on the left reading, Disability inclusive preventive screenings, implementation tools for practitioners. There is a photo of a young woman in the top left. She has the physical characteristics of a person with down syndrome. She has light brown hair and is smiling. The bottom half of the graphic shows the first page of three resources for health care providers on breast cancer, osteoporosis, and cervical cancer screening.
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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🎉 Please join us in welcoming two new members to MCD’s Board of Directors!
Read more about them⬇️
🔹 Dr. John Cutler: https://loom.ly/muXFZ2s
🔹 Dr. Janet Muriuki: https://loom.ly/t81v6HE

#boardofdirectors #welcome #globalhealth
October 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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We’ve been a Project ECHO hub since 2018! This model helps providers learn together, share real cases, and improve patient care, turning connection into better outcomes. 🩺👉 Learn more: https://loom.ly/7DxtUNU #PublicHealth #WorkforceDevelopment
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October 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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MCD was pleased to present and exhibit at the sold out 2025 Maine Public Health Association annual conference! We featured our training program for community health workers and our work with people in recovery leading with their lived experience. #publichealth #maine #healthworkers #conference
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Danielle Louder, director of @northeasttrc.bsky.social & co-director of MCD's U.S. Programs, joined partners, including other TRCs, @americanheart.bsky.social, and ViVE for a telehealth thought leadership workshop! #PublicHealth
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October 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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📣We're excited to be at these upcoming #PublicHealth events: @mainepha.bsky.social, New England Rural Health Association & @astmh.bsky.social 👉 https://loom.ly/76JRRMQ #ASTMH2025 #TropMed25 #NERHA2025
Dark grey, yellow and light blue colors. Text: We’ll See You at These Events! Maine Public Health Association October 27, Augusta, Maine New England Rural Health Association November 4–5, Mystic, Connecticut American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene November 9–13, Toronto, Canada
October 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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📣If you’re a provider in rural New England or New York and want to learn about co-occurring mental health and substance use disorder, don’t miss this FREE online workshop that takes place biweekly from November 5-December 17! Register today👉 https://loom.ly/xKIc0Rc #BehavioralHealth #PublicHealth
green, yellow, and orange graphic with photo of two women, one talking and the other taking notes. Graphic of New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine together. Register now button. Text: Upcoming ECHO: Integrated Approaches to Co-occurring SUD & Mental Health. In this free online series, you’ll learn about: Foundations of co-occurring SUD and mental health The brain: addiction and mental health Grief and loss due to overdose and suicide Caring for each other in the workplace
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Clean hands🙌 are vital in the fight against neglected tropical diseases. This #GlobalHandwashingDay, Be a #HandwashingHero 🧼, let’s strengthen WASH and NTD collaborations! 👉Learn more about our WASH efforts: https://loom.ly/qvWQasU #GlobalHealth
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October 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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🎉That's a wrap🎉! MCD's Hannah Huggins and Cristina Leal finished presenting at the NNPHI's Open Forum: Next Generation event on culturally adapting public health training and building online training for the public health workforce💻! #NNPHI
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October 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM