We have collected an extensive list of online resources related to international health and medical missions.
CRUDEM, an acronym for (Center for the Rural Development of Milot) was founded in 1968 by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart. CRUDEM supports Hôpital Sacre Coeur, the largest hospital in north Haiti. It is located in the town of Milot. The nearest airport is in the town of Cap Haitian, 30 minutes to the north.
In conjunction with several organizations, Curamericas has established a network of thousands of local community health workers and volunteers providing health services and health education to the people of Northwest Guatemala.
CURE International establishes and operates teaching hospitals in the developing world for the medical and spiritual healing of disabled children and their families. Christian organization that builds, funds and manages hospitals and supply surgical, medical and comprehensive rehabilitative care in a teaching context. Braces, artificial limbs and other implements are manufactured and provided to enable children to become productive adults.
DOCARE International organization comprised of health care professionals representing many disciplines. The all-volunteer membership includes physicians, nurses, dentists, veterinarians, pharmacists, optometrists, podiatrists, physician assistants and interested lay people who contribute special skills. A medical outreach organization, DOCARE's primary objective is to bring needed health care to primitive and isolated people in remote areas of Western Hemisphere countries.
The Foundation provides and promotes health related education and research scholarships to all health care fields, and provides funds, equipment and scholarships for volunteers to go on charitable medical missions locally and internationally.
Doctors for Global Health is an organization promoting health, education, art and other human rights throughout the world. Since its founding, Doctors for Global Health has attracted volunteers, including doctors and other health care 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 Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda and the United States.
Dominican Pediatric ENT Mission conducts an annual mission providing ENT surgical procedures, medical treatment, audiology care, and educational support in under resourced areas of the Dominican Republic.
Dorcas Medical Mission is a non-profit organization that conducts biannual missions providing surgical, medical, dental and vision care to countries in the Caribbean, Africa, Latin America and South America.
Since 1987, Operation Double Harvest has operated a medical clinic that has serviced the many villages that surround the project. The clinic is staffed by a full time doctor, nurses, aides, lab technicians, administrative assistants, a full time dentist and dental assistant. The Operation Double Harvest project is located approximately one-half hour east of Port-au-Prince, near the town of Croix des Bouquets.
DR HELP is a group of physicians, medical students and health professionals from the University of Florida who organize an annual medical mission trip to the Dominican Republic. DR Help aims to increase the awareness of health care in Latin America by working with physicians and medical students who serve patients in the Dominican Republic.
Emmaus Medical Mission conducts short term medical missions to Sumpango, Guatemala twice each year.
EngenderHealth works worldwide to improve the lives of individuals by making reproductive health services safe, available, and sustainable. They provide technical assistance, training, and information, with a focus on practical solutions that improve services where resources are scarce. Countries served include Guatemala, Honduras, and the Dominican Republic.
Esperanza has been working in various clinics in the barrios, with Dominican nurses and physicians to create an ongoing, cross cultural learning experience, where an exchange of current medical and surgical techniques, as well as social needs takes place. Vaccinations and other medicines are routinely purchased and distributed directly to the clinics. Esperanza also facilitates surgical referrals to surgeons in the United States for Dominicans that are in need of necessary, advanced and more expertise surgery, otherwise unobtainable in their country.
Eternal Hope in Haiti (EHIH) is a Christian mission organization that provides free medical care through quarterly mobile clinics and runs an orphanage for critically ill and abandoned children. Mission teams are comprised of Christian volunteers who serve in healthcare and non-health-care capacities.
Faces of Hope performs cleft lip and palate corrective surgeries for children at Hermano Pedro Hospital in Antigua, Guatemala.
Faith in Practice serves the poor in Guatemala through short-term surgical, medical and dental mission trips.
Faith Medical Missions conducts 4 short term missions each year to countries within Central and South America, including Guatemala and Honduras.. Each short term mission trip includes a medical clinic team who establish a medical/dental/vision clinic at a different site each day.
Faith Medical Missions conducts 4 short term missions each year to countries within Central and South America, including Guatemala and Honduras.. Each short term mission trip includes a medical clinic team who establish a medical/dental/vision clinic at a different site each day.
FaithCare conducts medical missions in Haiti multiple times a year, providing health assessments, health education and minor medical procedures.
Family Health Ministries is dedicated to helping individuals, families and communities 'in need' help themselves, in culturally relevant ways. Currently, they are supporting Haitian-run programs in maternal health; child health, education and church development. FHM's health focus is primarily public health focused. FHM has supported a cervical cancer prevention program based at Hopital Sainte Croix in Leogane since 1993. In addition, FHM takes a medical team to Cite Soleil, Haiti every June.
FAME partners with other mission organizations to deliver a unique combination of medical mission services, including medical facilities, medicines and medical supplies, and short-term mission teams. Countries served include Honduras, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic.
Works with Hopital Ste. Croix (Holy Cross Hospital), Leogane, Haiti; Faculte de Sciences Infirmieres de l'Universite Episcopale d'Haiti (School of Nursing, Episcopal University of Haiti), Leogane, Haiti; and the Pazapa Center for handicapped children, Jacmel, Haiti. Sends two medical missions annually.
Floating Doctors is a globally mobile medical team delivering free acute and preventative health care services from their sailboat- Southern Wind. Floating Doctors has focused its efforts on providing medical relief to the most remote coastal areas of the world, including communities in Haiti and Honduras.
FDoA sends medical & dental teams to places in need, including Guatemala.
Forward in Health sends 2-3 medical teams to Haiti each year. Teams consist of 2-3 doctors, 3-6 nurses, and non-medical volunteers. Teams operate out if Klinik Fonfred in Les Cayes as well as conduct mobile medical clinics in surrounding areas.
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