We have collected an extensive list of online resources related to international health and medical missions.
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.
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.
Farm of the Child is an orphange, school and clinic west of Trujillo. Their Sacred Heart Clinic offers medical services for residents of the Farm and the surrounding villages. Regular office hours for consults are offered two days a week, while emergency care is available at all hours. The clinic is staffed by a full time volunteer physician, nurse or physician’s assistant. A dentist visits once a year. They might start hosting dental missions.
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.
The Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC) is an international organization with chapters at universities all over the world. It strives to provide access to medical care to underprivileged and medically underserved children worldwide, including the Dominican Republic.
The Foundation for Peace is a non-profit organization working to provide education, clean water, health care, and economic opportunities for those in some of the poorest areas in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica and Kenya.
Free to Smile Foundation is dedicated to supporting and sustaining comprehensive, quality surgical and dental services to poor and underprivileged children and adolescents throughout the world. Free to Smile Foundation volunteers and partner organizations provide free cleft lip/palate surgery, dental and educational care.
Friend Ships provides large scale humanitarian aid, establishes development programs for people lacking essential human needs and supports ongoing programs that are having a significant, positive impact on their communities. Mission teams travel to "Friend Ships Village" in Roatan, Honduras.
The Friends of Barnabas began working in Honduras in the mid- 1990s. Their work evolved into roadside medical clinics staffed by volunteer doctors and nurses from the US. Now all teams have a physician and at least two other medical professionals. FOBF's Extended Care Program for children schedules and takes them to medical appointments
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