What Do We Do?
THE LARGEST MOVEMENT FOR
GLOBAL HEALTH AND HOLISTIC DEVELOPMENT
What Does It Look Like?
In rural Ghanaian, Honduran, Nicaraguan, and Panamanian communities where Public Health Brigades currently operates, there exist common diseases greatly affecting the health of community members which can be alleviated by simply improving home infrastructure and personal hygiene education. Public Health Brigades strives to combat these easily preventable diseases through low cost sustainable infrastructure projects utilizing materials that can be sourced locally and designs that can be taught to empowered local community experts.
The Goal
University volunteers and local teams work to create sustainable resources through a holistic approach of multiple interdisciplinary brigades: water, agriculture, public health, microfinance, and even human rights. Each of the partner communities receives a brigade approximately twice a year. Between brigades, Global Brigades' in-country team maintains relationships with the communities to provide follow-up and to conduct Community Health Worker trainings to empower local leaders to sustain a consistent level of healthcare.Eventually, volunteers transition out of these communities once they have met their country's success indicators.