Global Health Organizations

• Doctors for Global Health

  http://www.dghonline.org
      Promoting Health and Human Rights "With Those Who Have No Voice" Doctors for Global Health (DGH) is a private, non-profit organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. Since its founding in 1995, DGH has attracted more than 500 active supporters, including doctors and other healthcare workers, students, educators, attorneys, and engineers. Most of these volunteers work within their own communities, while others have also spent from a week to over a year working in El Salvador, Honduras, Chipas (Mexico), Peru, Uganda, and/or other countries. For more information or opportunities e-mail: dghinfo@dghonline.org or call (404) 377-3566

• Global Health Council

  http://www.globalhealth.org
      Leading advocacy group for Global Health, with weekly online newsletter and updates, plus annual conference.

• Global Health Medical Education Consortium

  http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/
  GHEC is a consortium of faculty and health care educators dedicated to global health education in North American health professions schools and residency programs. GHEC members are active in more than 70 health profession schools and training programs in the US, Canada, Central America and the Caribbean. The GHEC mailing list includes more than 700 physicians and medical educators.
  
  

• Heart to Heart International

  http://www.hearttoheart.org/
  Heart to Heart International is a global humanitarian organization that inspires, empowers and mobilizes individuals to serve the needs of the poor in their communities and around the world.

• MAP International

  http://www.map.org
      International medical relief assistance program.

• Medical Benevolence Foundation

  http://www.mbfoundation.org/

• Medical Bridges

  http://www.medicalbridges.org

• Peace Corps

  http://www.peacecorps.gov
      Life is calling. How far will you go?

• Physicians With Heart

  http://www.aafp.org/airlift.xml
      The Physicians With Heart partnership is an international humanitarian project sponsored by a coalition of three organizations: the American Academy of Family Physicians, the AAFP Foundation, and Heart to Heart International.

• Pan American Health Organization

  http://www.paho.org
      The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System and as the Regional Office for th Americas of the World Health Organization.

• World Health Organiation

  http://www.who.int/en
      The World Health Organization was established by the United Nations as the UN's specialized agency for health.

• International Health Opportunities Database

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• Unite For Sight Volunteer Opportunities

  Volunteer Abroad in Summer, Fall, Winter or Spring: http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer. Volunteers range from undergraduate/college students to medical and optometry students, public health students and professionals, business students, filmmakers and photographers, nurses and nursing students, social workers, physician's assistants, teachers and educators, opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists.
  
  Unite for Sight welcomes volunteers who may not have previous health or eye care experience. Volunteers receive all necessary training from Unite for Sight so that they are able to assist eye doctors with community eye outreach programs. Volunteers receive hands-on clinical experience while assisting doctors in remote, rural villages. Volunteers learn about internationalhealth and eye care, learn clinical skills while working with patients and doctors.
  
  Hundreds of volunteer narratives, volunteer diaries, as well as videos of alumni volunteers and partner eye doctors are available on the Unite for Sight website: http://www.uniteforsight.org/intl_volunteer.