David Silverman

Chicago, IL

Passionate About:

Besides a love for cooking, snow/water sports and my beautiful wife is my continued love of acquiring knowledge.
Each additional year brings new and fascinating ways through science and medicine for me to help people who need it the most.
Whether domestic or abroad, every human deserves the right to good health care.

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Website: chicago-brigades-chicago-medical-brigades-chapter

Phone: 888-888-8888


Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Medical Brigades

About Us

Chicago 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.