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
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