Organization
Health Frontiers (HF) is a volunteer non-profit organization engaged in health-related activities in the US and overseas.
Founded in 1991, it looks for opportunities in international health and child development that would be lost without a volunteer effort. HF is a catalyst organization, prepared to seize small opportunities at the frontiers of health, and help nurture them into viable realities.
News and Announcements
- Haiti Disaster Alert. Child
health volunteers from Health Frontiers and the Case Western Center for
Global Child Health are urgently collaborating with colleagues from the
International Pediatric Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and
other centers to develop short and long-term interventions for the Haiti
disaster that will specifically address the special needs of children
affected by this overwhelming tragedy. Helping Children
in Disasters has long been a focus of Health Frontiers, both through
training health care professionals around the world to respond to disasters
and through directly volunteering on the ground during disaster
situations. Previously Health Frontiers has supported similar
responses to the Asian Tsunami
as well as the 2006 earthquake in Pakistan.
Donations are currently being
accepted to assist with the relief effort in Haiti. Health
Frontiers uniquely operates with no overhead. If you choose to
contribute through Health Frontiers, we can assure you that 100% of your
contribution will be directly used to help the desperately needy children in
Haiti.
- Health
Frontiers Update, November, 2009 (PDF document)
- Health Frontiers Supports Hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi. After several years of involvement in Malawi HF has joined other individuals and organizations to form the Chitenje Maternity Trust, in order to improve care provided to mothers and babies at Bwaila Hospital in Lilongwe.
- Hillman Professorship: The second annual Donald and Elizabeth Hillman
Visiting Professorship was held in Vientiane in November 2009. Professor Tawee Chotpitayasunondh, Infectious
Disease Specialist from the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health
in Bangkok, Thailand, was awarded this fellowship and invited to teach the
Lao residents and teachers in Vientiane. The fellowship was established to honor the
memory of Donald Hillman, and the work of he and his wife Elizabeth Hillman who have been leaders
and models in the field of international child health.
Health Frontiers Brochure, 2009

For Volunteers
by Hakon Torjesen