A Conversation with Rosario Díaz Vicente
Director of the Centro Clinico Mam maternal & child health clinic in San Juan Ostuncalco, Guatemala

September 27, 12 noon, Alumni Bldg. 313A

For more than twenty years Rosario Díaz has served the Mam Mayan people as midwife, nurse, and advocate for women's rights. After training under a missionary nurse, she became clinic manager, hiring doctors and training lay assistants. Determined to help indigenous women bear and raise healthy children, she persisted through the violence of the Guatemalan civil war and an anti-feminist backlash within her religious community. Five years ago she converted her own home into a new and expanding clinic. Building on years of experience, Díaz has collaborated with public health researchers to devise forms of health care delivery and health education that are culturally appropriate and practical for the very poor.