Alexander Feng

St Louis, MO

Passionate About:

The mission of Global Medical Brigades is not only about providing basic and preventative care to those who are unable to access it, but to help volunteers like myself learn more about cross-cultural health systems in relation to our own. As a future medical practitioner, I will take this perfect opportunity not only to learn more from a top down perspective of how medical resources are distributed in relation to their local and cultural context but how my passion and life-long goals fit into a future career in medicine.

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Website: https://www.globalbrigades.org/

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Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Medical Brigades

About Us

St. Louis Area Brigades is a chapter of Global Medical Brigades, an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. We work in remote, rural, and under resourced communities in Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and Ghana who would otherwise have limited to no access to health care. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are provided access to healthcare and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends. nnIn conjunction with our Medical Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with economic development, sanitation and clean water projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.