Dr. Natalie Quion came to the US from the Philippines as a child with her family. Although principally focused on immigration health here in the US, Dr. Quion remains passionate about advancing healthcare in the Philippines as well. She travels annually to Romblon, a very rural cluster of four islands out of the Philippine’s 7100 that only receives medical care twice a year. Dr. Quion has mostly been focused on tuberculosis and other public health concerns in partnership with the Philippine Ambulatory Pediatric Association. “They are a group of pediatricians who are working to develop a community based, not just hospital based TB program,” she describes. Their efforts are centered around community screenings for TB and training for what is called the “rural health units…which is basically the most basic health unit in the healthcare infrastructure system in the Philippines,” she adds. The health unit that travels to Romblon is run by a general nurse practitioner, and if Dr. Quion did not travel every year in February to the site, the children would never be seen by a pediatrician.
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