International Health Care Service Organizations
The following organizations provide health service opportunities for our members. The ACR does not support or endorse any of these specific organizations. We further know that this is just a partial listing of the many excellent organizations that are working around the clock to improve health care in the developing world. If you are aware of any organizations we have omitted, please contact Brad Short at the ACR at 800-227-5463 ext. 4975.
American Red Cross
The American Red Cross works with a global network of Red Cross, Red Crescent and equivalent societies to restore hope and dignity to the world's vulnerable people. This international Red Cross movement brings emergency relief to disaster victims, and improves basic living conditions of those in chronically deprived areas of the world.
Web site: http://www.redcross.org
AmeriCares
AmeriCares is a nonprofit disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization, which provides immediate response to emergency medical needs -- and supports long-term humanitarian assistance programs -- for all people around the world, irrespective of race, creed or political persuasion.
Web site: http://www.americares.org
Doctors of the World
Doctors of the World mobilizes the health sector to promote and protect basic human rights and civil liberties for all people, in the United States and abroad. In collaboration with a network of affiliates around the world and in partnership with local communities, we work where health is diminished or endangered by violations of human rights and civil liberties.
Web site: http://www.doctorsoftheworld.org
Doctors Without Borders
Médecins Sans Frontières (also known as Doctors Without Borders or MSF) delivers emergency aid to victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and to others who lack health care due to social or geographical isolation.
Web site: http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/
East Africa Medical Assistance Foundation
The East Africa Medical Assistance Foundation is a volunteer nonprofit organization based in North Oaks, Minnesota. We are dedicated to recruiting volunteers to provide medical education and training, medical equipment, and medical care in East Africa, and to raising funds to help support our efforts.
Web site: http://www.eastafricafoundation.org/
Global Health Council
The Global Health Council is the world's largest membership alliance dedicated to saving lives by improving health throughout the world. Our diverse membership is comprised of health-care professionals and organizations that include NGOs, foundations, corporations, government agencies and academic institutions that work to ensure global health for all.
Web site: http://www.globalhealth.org
Global Links
Global Links is dedicated to recovering surplus medical supplies and equipment for use by healthcare institutions in developing countries. To achieve this mission, Global Links collects batch and single item supplies and equipment that are still valuable but are no longer in demand in the United States due to procedural excess, technological change, regulatory requirements, or production overage, and distributes them to selected healthcare facilities in developing countries.
Web site: http://www.globallinks.org
Health Volunteers Overseas
Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO) is a private, non-profit, non-sectarian voluntary organization headquartered in the United States. HVO is dedicated to improving the availability and quality of health care in developing countries through training and education.
Web site: http://www.hvousa.org
Humanitarian Medical Relief
Through a strong dedication to saving lives worldwide, Humanitarian Medical Relief (HMR) donates medical equipment, supplies and volunteer services in order to provide free medical care to the indigent in the United States and Third World Countries. Through the collection and distribution of the vast number of new and/or usable medical items that, due to expiration dates or updated technology, would normally be directed to our landfills or incinerators, HMR offers hope to those without access to healthcare by establishing humanitarian clinics.
Web site: http://www.humanitarianmedical.org/links.html
International Health Volunteers
The International Health Volunteers (IHVO) is an independent, not for profit humanitarian medical service organization whose primary goal is to encourage, engage, and assist medical personnel who wish to volunteer their skills with international health care projects.
Web site: http://www.internationalhealthvolunteers.org
International Medical Corps
International Medical Corps is a global humanitarian nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives and relieving suffering through health care training and relief and development programs. Established in 1984 by volunteer doctors and nurses, IMC is a private, voluntary, nonpolitical, nonsectarian organization. Its mission is to improve the quality of life through health interventions and related activities that build local capacity in areas worldwide where few organizations dare to serve.
Web site: http://www.imc-la.com
International Rescue Committee
The IRC helps people fleeing racial, religious and ethnic persecution, as well as those uprooted by war and violence. At the outbreak of an emergency, the IRC provides sanctuary and lifesaving assistance: For refugees driven from their homes, they provide emergency assistance: water, food, shelter, sanitation and medical care.
Web site: http://www.theirc.org
Jefferson Ultrasound Research and Education Institute
The Jefferson Ultrasound Research and Education Institute (JUREI) is committed to providing support for the development of superior ultrasound services throughout the world. To this end, the Institute has established a global network of affiliate training centers in over 50 countries.
Web site: http://www.jefferson.edu/jurei/
Operation USA
Since 1979, Operation USA has garnered a reputation for innovation, care and speed as we send relief flights and sea and land shipments throughout the world. Hundreds of American corporations have contributed their products and services to our relief and development programs.
Web site: http://www.opusa.org
Pan American World Health Organization
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is an international public health agency with more than 90 years of experience in working to improve health and living standards in the countries of the Americas. It serves as the specialized organization for health of the Inter-American System. It also serves as the Regional Office for the Americas of the World Health Organization and enjoys international recognition as part of the United Nations system.
Web site: http://www.paho.org
Physicians for Human Rights
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) promotes health by protecting human rights. Using medical and scientific methods, we investigate and expose violations of human rights worldwide and we work to stop them. We educate health professionals and medical, public health and nursing students and organize them to become active in supporting a movement for human rights and creating a culture of human rights in the medical and scientific professions.
Web site: http://www.phrusa.org
Physicians for Peace
Physicians For Peace is an organization that seeks to further the cause of world peace and international goodwill by providing quality medical care to those in need.
Web site: http://www.physiciansforpeace.org
Physicians with Heart Airlift
The mission of "Physicians With Heart" – a partnership between the American Academy of Family Physicians, its Foundation, and Heart to Heart International – is to mobilize resources to improve health, provide medical education and to foster the development of Family Practice worldwide.
Web site: http://www.aafp.org
Project Concern International
Project Concern International provides parents and our worldwide partners with training, support and care crucial to protecting the well-being of children and families. Project Concern programs save lives by providing basic health care, halting the spread of infectious disease, feeding those in need of nutritious food and providing struggling communities with access to clean water.
Web site: http://www.projectconcern.org
Project Hope
Health Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE) was developed to achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs, conducting health policy research, and providing humanitarian assistance in areas of need; thereby contributing to human dignity, promoting international understanding, and enhancing social and economic development.
Web site: http://www.projhope.org/
Radiology Outreach Foundation
The Radiology Outreach Foundation (ROF) is a non-profit corporation whose goal is to help improve health care in underdeveloped countries by providing radiology equipment, books, consultation, education, and training to physicians in these countries. This assistance is on an application basis that is independent of political, ethnic, or religious orientation of the grantee, but is dependent on the need of the people and the ability of the ROF to meet that need.
Web site: http://radiologyoutreach.ucsf.edu/
Volunteers in Medicine Institute
The Mission of VIMI is to promote and guide the development of a national network of free clinics emphasizing the use of retired medical and lay volunteers to care for the "working uninsured" within a culture of caring so that everyone in a community has access to health care.
Web site: http://www.vimi.org
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health, was established on 7 April 1948. WHO's objective, as set out in its Constitution, is the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health. Health is defined in WHO's Constitution as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. WHO is governed by 192 Member States through the World Health Assembly.
Web site: http://www.who.int/
World Medical Association
The purpose of the WMA is to serve humanity by endeavoring to achieve the highest international standards in Medical Education, Medical Science, Medical Art and Medical Ethics, and Health Care for all people in the world.
Web site: http://www.wma.net