CIHF Associate Director Mardelle Shepley and students in her Health & Healing Studio featured in article

Design for a courtyard garden at Escuela Hospital in Tegucigalpa, Honduras

In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 56 percent of infants born needing medical intervention die due to a shortage of space to care for them in the city’s largest public hospital.

With the help of six students taking a Cornell design studio this spring, however, there is hope babies born prematurely or with defects will soon be treated in an expanded neonatal intensive care unit at Escuela Hospital in the Honduran capital.