Our work

We help people survive and thrive.

We go beyond medical care to support health and well-being throughout our patients’ lives. Family support, nutrition, income generation, education and health are inextricably linked. That’s why our partnership programs are designed to start with life-saving care and then do more to help entire communities not just survive, but truly thrive.

Our process

1. COLLABORATE TO IDENTIFY GOALS

Work alongside communities to identify their goals and priorities, both immediate and long-term.

2. CONNECT PEOPLE WITH CARE

Support people and communities on their path to sustainable health, including medical and health care.

3. EXPAND BEYOND CARE

Partner with communities so they achieve their own success, connect people with health insurance, identify wrap-around services to support medical and health care, train the next generation medical professionals and engage in research to create and enhance innovative support systems.

Explore our priorities

CARE PRIORITIES

**Transform primary healthcare delivery and ensure health equity for all people by partnering with communities to identify and address the root causes of health disparities.**
**Assess and address health priorities as identified by communities in a community health needs assessment: diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and other non-communicable diseases.**
**Include community-based health promotion, disease screening, prevention activities, and link at-risk people to low-cost models of primary care that reward value.**
**Engage meaningfully with local communities to address social and structural determinants of health and incorporate health promotion and healthcare delivery into the community.**

RESEARCH PRIORITIES

**Investigate to create innovative solutions to address pressing health challenges, strengthen health systems and improve population health outcomes.**
**Conduct rigorous, relevant and responsive health-services and implementation-science research.**
**Invest in efforts to leverage informatics, data integration and data analytics to improve primary healthcare delivery and population health.**

EDUCATION PRIORITIES

Build capacity in population health and primary care delivery, training and research to elevate the status of primary care and population health as an academic discipline in Mexico and the U.S. and serve as a model for other countries.
Be responsive to community-identified health priorities and thus identify areas for necessary additional and enhanced education of health students and professionals, design and implement such education, and assess how additional education impacts population health outcomes
Train the next generation of healthcare leaders in Mexico, in the U.S. and around the world with the knowledge and skills they need to engage in primary healthcare transformations and to be innovators and leaders in global health.

Where we work

At the center of AMPATH/MAPAS efforts in Mexico is the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) Faculty of Medicine. BUAP is the public university in the city of Puebla, the fourth-largest city in Mexico, located approximately two hours southeast of Mexico City is the fifth most populous and also the fifth poorest state in Mexico. Initially, AMPATH/MAPAS México will focus on supporting and enhancing care in several poor rural and peri-urban communities close to the city of Puebla with the aim to scale the model throughout the state of Puebla with a population of 6.2 million.

Ways to get involved

STUDENTS AND TRAINEES

Want to visit or get involved with AMPATH México?

Please check back with us in 2023, as formal exchange opportunities will not start until then. The foundation of the AMPATH model to build long-term longitudinal partnerships among training institutions, and we can only host exchange experiences for those whose universities are members of AMPATH Consortium.