Health for Humanity: Sharing Knowledge, Saving Lives

Improving health worldwide is a matter of sharing knowledge and building healthcare capacity in the developing world. Skilled healthcare workers and medical educators are the missing link in promoting the sharing of knowledge and ensuring adequate, available care for all. The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified a shortage of capable, trained healthcare workers as one of the most critical constraints to the achievement of health and development goals. They have called upon local, regional, and international organizations to deliver increased investment, build up knowledge and expertise in medical science and healthcare management, and to deliver innovative education and training. The WHO has emphasized the importance of training partnerships intended to improve the capacity and quality of health-professional education in developing countries.

Since 1992, Health for Humanity has focused its work on meeting this unmet, urgent need of providing technical medical training through partnerships with existing healthcare institutions around the world. Health for Humanity’s work is unique because it prioritizes long-term capacity building of healthcare professionals in developing countries, recognizing the growing need for advanced medical education to sustainably improve health care worldwide. Health for Humanity utilizes values-based leadership training to amplify the effects of technical medical training. This groundbreaking values-based leadership training, based on the innovative curriculum developed at Nur University in Bolivia encourages and successfully increases communication, consensus-building, and sharing of knowledge, leading to better outcomes for patients and more satisfied and effective health workers.

A recognized member of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Health for Humanity’s approach engages the global health community and works to provide technical training needs as identified by both international health agencies as well as local partners. Health for Humanity is committed to collaborating with international and local like-minded organizations to maximize its impact. For the past 17 years, Health for Humanity has been privileged to collaborate and partner with hospitals and healthcare facilities in Mongolia, China, Albania, Cameroon, Ecuador, and Guyana as well as with the Soros Foundations’ Open Society Institute, the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, ORBIS International, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, Rotary International, the Global Health Council, and the United States Agency for International Development.

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