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

• Update on Humanitarian Situation in Pakistan:  Health Frontiers is supporting pediatricians in Pakistan who are responding to the current overwhelming humanitarian disaster.
• 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 first Donald and Elizabeth Hillman Visiting Professorship was held in Vientiane in November 2007.  Dr. Srivieng Pairojkul from Khon Kaen University was the first to teach as a recipient of this award. Professor Tawee Chotpitayasunondh, Infectious Disease Specialist from the Queen Sirikit National Institute of Child Health in Bangkok, Thailand, has been name for the fellowship for 2009.  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.
• Pediatric Graduates Report 2007:  Dr. Leila Srour, Pediatric Continuing Medical Education (CME) Coordinator in Laos, reports on the activities, accomplishments and challenges of Lao pediatricians who have graduates from the post-graduate training program, as well as CME activities in the past year.  Pediatric Graduates Report 2007
• Health Frontiers Brochure, Winter 2007 [pdf]

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