Global teleRehabilitation Institute

Dr seeking consultation for baby from colleagues via videoconferencing

The Global teleRehabilitation Institute is the telepractices program of GlobalPartnersUnited. This GtRI program aims to specifically implement the health care and rehabilitation tenets of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the 2007 international human rights treaty in force and currently signed by 144 countries and ratified by 88 countries.

In development stages, the GtRI mission is to grow access to screening, identification, healthcare, and rehabilitation services for infants, toddlers, children and adults. Planning for technology transfer of orthotic and prosthetic devices is a key component of service delivery and capacity building.

GtRI will provide service delivery through telepractices and twinning ‘centers of excellence’ to supplement related GPU capacity building training, mentoring, and consultation.

The World Health Organization’s (WHO) Community-based Rehabilitation (CBR) framework is at the heart of our service delivery, workforce training, and overall program development. The goal is for community-based personnel to screen, identify, and (re)habilitate children and adults with disabilities through expert and peer mentoring, communities of practice, and consultation.