Community Impact Healthcare

Monday, October 2, 2023 - 1:00pm
CST
Dr. Haywood Hall

Dr. Haywood Hall is the founder and director of PACEMD, a program initiated in San Miguel de Allende in 2002 which has trained over 50,000 health practitioners in Mexico, created new standards in public access defibrillation as well as in community-based training and competency certification in Mexico and Latin America. The program sponsored Pan American Forums on Emergency Care and Global Health in 2018 and 2019 and has championed the Advanced Life Support for Obstetrics (ALSO) program which has become a gold standard for reducing maternal mortality in Mexico.  Dr Hall will outline the current restructuring of PACEMD and its digital transformation plans.

Dr. Hall, is an Ashoka Social Impact Fellow, as well as an a internationally recognized emergency medicine physician who helped found the Global Emergency Medicine Subspecialty. He is an ACEP Hero of Emergency Medicine and was awarded the IFEM International Humanitarian Award for his work in international development in 2014, and collaborated with the Mohammed Yunis organization in organizing the health section of a Nobel laureate 0re-conference in 2015 in Atlanta. He’s also an innovator and leader in the area of telemedicine and tele-health in the United States. He credits his social impact drive to his parents leadership and influence in civil rights movement and strives to continue their legacy though efforts to improve health care in marginalized communities .

 

Upcoming Events

Monday, October 20, 2025 - 1:30pm
CST
Bruce Hobson & Meizhu Lui
Location:
La Biblioteca, Teatro Santa Ana, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende

Co-founders of the Mexico Solidarity Project, Bruce Hobson and Meizhu Lui will speak on why North American progressives should understand why Mexico is critical to advancing a vision of socialism and multiracial democracy in the United States.

 

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 - 12:00pm
CST
Organized by The Reentry Resource Program

You are invited to join a discussion with filmmaker Santiago Esteinou and Cesar Fierro about the new documentaryThe Freedom of Fierro.

César Fierro has just become a free man, and he needs to rebuild his life after being wrongly sentenced to death in Texas. César spent 40 years in prison before being released... Read more

Monday, November 3, 2025 - 1:30pm
CST
Joe Belden
Location:
La Biblioteca, Sala Quezal, Insurgentes 25, Centro, San Miguel de Allende
This mostly forgotten war led to Mexico losing over half its territory and the United States expanding to the Pacific. The lecture examines the political and economic background of the conflict, what led to it, and the roles of such factors as Texas annexation in 1845, slavery, racism, the Democratic and Whig parties, and Manifest... Read more