GHO creates programs to enhance anesthesia education, training, and care worldwide.
2019 Outstanding Humanitarian Contribution Award winner Elizabeth A.M. Frost, M.D.
Provides support for young leaders from low- and middle-lower income countries to participate in ANESTHESIOLOGY annual meeting.
ASA-CASIEF collaboration supports anesthesia care and education programs in Guyana and Rwanda.
U.S. residents experience the challenges of delivering anesthesia in a developing country
One World Surgery organizes surgical and primary care missions to its facility in Honduras, the Holy Family Surgery Center. One World Surgery also leads primary care field missions in the communities surrounding the site of its future surgery center and primary care clinic in the Dominican Republic. Surgical missions to the Dominican Republic are scheduled to begin in 2022. They are in need of anesthesiologists and more information can be found here: https://oneworldsurgery.org/medical-mission/
Global Smile Foundation (GSF) is a nonprofit based in Massachusetts whose goal l is to provide comprehensive cleft care for patients in underserved areas throughout the world and to advance the level of cleft care provided globally. Our volunteers have been dedicated to providing our patients with the best possible long-term and multi-disciplinary cleft care. We believe that first-class comprehensive cleft care should be accessible for all patients regardless of geographic or socioeconomic barriers. Our current missions are in Ecuador, Peru, Lebanon and El Salvador. For more information you can visit our website https://gsmile.org/
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urgently recruiting anesthesia to provide care to communities without access to functioning health care systems. Pediatrics and obstetric experience is a strong priority right now. Responsibilities include providing anesthesia, pain management, teaching and supervising of local staff, reporting, and at times assisting the ICU. Visit our website to see requirements and apply!
For more information visit the program page, or contact Dr. Reema Sanghvi at rsanghvi@health.ucsd.edu.
Healing the Children (HTC) IL/IN is seeking an anesthesiologist for a medical mission to Ecuador May 23-30, 2020. The trip is plastic-surgery based and in a modern hospital near Guayaquil. We will pay for all lodging costs, all in-country transportation, all breakfasts and lunches PLUS 75% of the air fare. Must have a current license, passport and feel comfortable working with children under the age of 19. Any interested candidates contact Jeff Degner at jeffdegner1@gmail.com or 847-209-8821.
The Chunilal Initiative is looking for an anesthesiologist for a trip to Saint Vincent in February 2020. The anesthesiologist will train local anesthesiologists and help deliver anesthesia to neurosurgical patients. All expenses are covered for the trip including airfare, housing, etc. For more information please visit our website: chunilalinitiative.org or contact Hiren Patel at hpatel8@partners.org.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is urgently recruiting anesthesia to provide care to communities without access to functioning health care systems. Responsibilities include providing anesthesia, pain management, teaching and supervising of local staff, reporting, and at times assisting the ICU. Visit our website to see requirements and apply!
For more information visit the program page, or contact Dr. Reema Sanghvi at rsanghvi@health.ucsd.edu.
The GHO Overseas Teaching Program in Rwanda 2019 program. For more information visit our program page.