We have collected an extensive list of online resources related to international health and medical missions.
This church founded and sponsors the St. Genevieve Health Clinic in in Duval, Haiti. A nurse is at the clinic 6 days a week. The group sends short term medical and dental trips to the clinic as well.
The St. Jules Clinic is supported by the Immaculate Conception Parish in Clarksville, Tennessee as part of the Parish Twinning Program of the Americas (PTPA). This primary care clinic operates year round with part time Haitian doctors, two full time Haitian nurses, a lab technician, a pharmacist, a clinic administrator and two clinic support staff. St. Jules works in close collaboration with Hospital Sacre Couer in Milot, Haiti. The clinic is located in St. Jules Parish, Petit Bourg du Borgne, Department du Nord.
The St. Malachy Clinic is supported by the St. Malachy Parish in Brownsburg, Indiana. The clinic provides basic health care services to the Port Margot community and is staffed full time with a doctor and nurse. In addition, the clinic hosts short term medical and dental missions several times each year. The St. Malachy Clinic is located in Port Margot, Department du Nord.
The STAND clinic provides the Port-de-Paix area with physical therapy for adults and children, wound care, limb loss rehabilitation, prosthetics fabrication and training, as well as health education.
Summit in Honduras is a humanitarian, non-profit 501 (c) 3 based in Breckenridge, Colorado. They provide outreach to impoverished families and children in rural western Honduras. Summit In Honduras missions include medical outreach, education, literacy, clean water and construction projects. On medical missions the team visits 3-6 villages and treat up to 7 or 8 hundred people over a week’s time. Medical mission teams offer basic health care and health education.
This site offers more than 2000 online PowerPoint lectures authored by over 1,000 faculty. Lectures are grouped into categories, an extensive source of materials and ideas.
Supplies Over Seas collects and redistributes surplus medical supplies and equipment to developing countries, including Guatemala, Honduras and Haiti.
Surgeon Volunteers conducts short term surgical missions in Haiti and Cambodia. They have focused on providing urology and breast surgeries to these medically underserved countries.
Surgeons of Hope brings surgery and medical care to indigent children. They have established programs in countries throughout the world including a pediatric cardiac unit within the Lambert Clinic in Petionville, Haiti.
Non-profit organization founded to recruit, coordinate and deploy volunteer ophthalmologists, nurses and technicians to perform free, sight-restoring surgery throughout the developing world.
Surgical Eye Expedition (SEE) International provides sustainable medical, surgical, and educational services through volunteer ophthalmic surgeons with the objectives of restoring sight and preventing blindness to disadvantaged individuals worldwide.
Surgical Volunteers International recruits highly skilled medical professionals to travel to developing countries for the purpose of delivering surgical care to children and young adults. SVI teams have performed surgeries on children with clefts, burns and urological problems in several countries including Guatemala and Haiti.
Surgicorps International travels the world to provide free surgical and medical care to disadvantaged individuals in developing countries. Sends one trip per year to Antigua, Guatemala.
SOIL is a non-profit organization focused on ecological sanitation and composting as a means of enhancing public health and agricultural productivity in Haiti. SOIL also sponsors a weekly health clinic at the Technology Center in Shada, Department du Nord.
The Swinfen Charitable Trust connects physicians and their patients in poor or remote parts of the world with specialists who offer medical advice on specific cases. Recently formed a partnership with Univ. of Miami and Univ. of Virginia to remotely "see" the patients at the University of Miami's field hospital in Port-au-Prince.
Dentists, ophthalmologists, obstetricians from Taiwan travel to Belize, Dominican Republic, and Haiti on medical missions.
Team 5 Medical Foundation sends teams of medical and veteran volunteers to remote areas throughout the world, including Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, to provide medical assistance and medical training.
Team 5 Medical Foundation sends teams of medical and veteran volunteers to remote areas throughout the world, including Guatemala and the Dominican Republic, to provide medical assistance and medical training.
Started in 2002, Team Canada Healing Hands works closely with Healing Hands for Haiti, a US based NGO, and works and stays at the Healing Hands clinic (Kay Kapab) and guesthouse. Work is dedicated to the provision of rehabilitative education, training, and care in areas of need.
Non-denominational Christian organization founded to improve the efficiency and quality of care of medical missions and agencies worldwide.
The Christian Health Service Corps feels that there is a need in the mission community for mission organizations where a thoughtful approach to medical care is delivered. They prepare Christian medical missionaries for the complexities of cross-cultural health care both directly and through their network of organizational partners. They feel that often short-term missions don’t have an integrated focus, and the potential for doing more harm than good exists. They actively promote the WHO/UNICEF standards of practice for developing communities as the minimum standards for Christian healthcare teams
The Diocese of Milwaukee Haiti Project is a partnership between the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee and the people of St. Marc’s Episcopal Church of Jeannette, located in the southern peninsula of Haiti. The project has built two schools for 600 students in preschool through eighth grade, a health clinic, water cisterns, latrines, staff housing, and a rectory/community center. Each year the project raises about $70,000 to cover the salaries for 40 employees including teachers, nurses, health care providers, and agricultural workers. It also funds operating and expansion costs for the school, clinic, and agricultural programs.
The Dorsainvil Foundation is a non-profit organization, dedicated to providing adequate healthcare to all individuals. The foundation's efforts are mostly focused in Arcahaie, Haiti, where they support a free medical clinic that is open six days a week. The Dorsainvil Foundation conducts medical missions on a quarterly basis.
The mission of The Flying Hospital is to bring medical aid and education as well as supplies and medicines on a non-discriminatory and impartial basis to impoverished people of all nations, and to assist the suffering victims of natural and man-made disasters wherever they may occur in the world. The Flying Hospital, Inc., was established by Mercy Airlift to bring to the world the largest fully equipped surgical hospital ever constructed inside an aircraft. Most missions include outpatient surgery, major surgery- such as orthopedic, general, neurosurgical or gynecological procedures as well as general medical examinations and basic dentistry.
Mercy and Sharing has ten active projects throughout Haiti including two orphanages (one of which is for terminally ill and handicapped children), six primary schools, the Mercy Health Center in Delmas and the Abandoned Infant Unit in Hospital General H.U.E.H. Port-au-Prince.
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