Bringing a new culture of health

"I have a responsibility"

Dr. Ekoumou

Martin Ekoumou,

MD, MPH, PhD-C

Global Health Promoter, Educator, and activist

Don't Lose Hope Global (DLH-GL) & The Valley Hub (TVH)

Former Faculty and Administrator:
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Former Clinical Assistant Professor
(From Fall 2017 to Fall 2024)
Former Director of Clinical Education
(From 2017 to Fall 2024)
Former Clinical Coordinator
(From 2022 to Fall 2024)

About the CEO

About the Organization

Community Health Promotion and Education

This Certification Program sets the stage for the seriousness of DLH’s fight against Diabetes and other Lifestyle Diseases in the Rio Grande Valley, across the State of Texas and the United States through Community Health Promotion and Education.

The following Health Professionals will be trained to deliver value-based services:

Community Health Promoters (CHP)

Community Health Consultants (CHC)

Community Health Technicians (CHT)

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Don’t Lose Hope and its associates are determined to implement a Comprehensive Community Value-based Health Promotion and Education Outreach Program to serve as an Interprofessional Learning, Teachinig, and Educational Center:

This is a sorely needed venue in which local and out-of-Rio Grande Valley health institutions, faculty, and students can have hands-on community health best practices that benefit the Rio Grande People and Communities while improving health outcomes and establishing a new culture of good health in South Texas where lifestyle disease, let alone Diabetes is rampant.

The RGV is the Nation’s hardest hit region by lifestyle diseases.

Here, Diabetes and Obesity are rampant, and the statistics have been

Staggering for the past consecutive 5 years.

“In the United States of America, 1 in 12 individuals has diabetes.

Here in the Rio Grande Valley, 1 in 3 individuals has diabetes.”

To help reduce the alarming high rate of Diabetes and its complications namely Retinopathy, Neuropathy, Nephropaty: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) and End-Stage Kidney Disease (ESKD); and other lifestyle diseases such as High Cholesterol, High Blood Pressure, Stroke, Cardiovascular Disease that are rampant in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, across the United States; and that are destroying countless lives around the world today.

An innovative strategy to reduce diabetes, chronic kidney disease (CKD), and end stage kidney disease (ESKD) Based on early awareness, detection, screening, testing, prevention, education, control, management, and treatment

To reduce the alarming rate of Diabetes complications in the United States and around the world

Retinopathy
Blindness

Amputation

Dialysis

Kidney Transplant

Innovative

Curriculum

Basic Professionalism (BP)
Critical Thinking (CT)
Emotional Intelligence (EI)
Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC)
Interprofessional Education (IPE)
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Community Engagement (CE)
Basic Research (BR)
Mental Health Awareness (MHA)