HVO envisions a world where all people have access to high quality health care delivered by local health professionals. We know how essential a well-supported health workforce is to realizing our vision – and, on International Nurses Day, we are…
Earlier this month, HVO celebrated World Health Day by announcing our Golden Apple honorees – HVO members, volunteers, partners and supporters who make extraordinary contributions to our mission to improve global health through the education, training, and professional development of…
Pamela Cole, PT, CWS believes in building relationships to improve global health. As she noted in a recent interview, “Building relationships is where it’s really at.” Ms. Cole, a 2018 HVO Golden Apple Award honoree, first traveled to HVO’s wound…
For over a decade, Dr. Sithach Mey has served as on-site coordinator for HVO’s dermatology project at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. As Head of the Dermatology Department at Preah Kossamak, Dr. Mey works with HVO to coordinate…
At HVO we often discuss the importance of partnership. Without the support of our partners, including dedicated on-site personnel at each of our project sites across the globe, we would be unable to fulfill our mission to improve the availability…
Throughout the month of March, numerous international days of action call us to reflect on our most pressing global challenges. These include International Women’s Day, World Oral Health Day, World Down Syndrome Day, International Day for the Elimination of Racial…
Volunteering internationally allows you to focus on the real reason you got into medicine—to take care of people. Not only does it give you the opportunity to appreciate different cultures, but also to realize that as doctors we are basically…
Recently, the World Health Organization compiled a list of ten threats to global health in 2019. The highlighted threats are diverse and nuanced, like many of the challenges facing the global health community, ranging from antimicrobial resistance to noncommunicable diseases…
On World Cancer Day, we are all called to take action. At HVO, we believe educating and supporting health workers is essential to addressing the global cancer burden. We bring together individuals who are passionate about improving access to treatment…
2018 Golden Apple Award honoree Robert Hoffman, MD already had some international medical volunteer experience under his belt when he first learned about HVO during the 2006 American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH) Annual Meeting. He was intrigued…
Pediatric cardiologist Mark Duster, MD believes international health volunteers “offer a vision of the possible” to their colleagues in resource-scarce countries by providing a glimpse into how increased health workforce capacity and health system strengthening may impact patient care over…
"My international volunteer experiences have been life changing and have caused me to recognize that our physical therapy profession has a major contribution to make in furthering global health." - Dr. Janna Beling