Nicole Colletta

FL

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I am a pre-pa student who aspires to go into Emergency Medicine/ Trauma. This May I will be going to Honduras to help provide medical care to those who cannot afford it. Last year I went to Honduras and I fell in love with the people and the organization. GMB allowed me to see first hand the impact that this medical care has on the people in communities that do not have access to adequate facilities. I cannot wait to see to go back and to continue to help the communities in need in Honduras.

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Website: http://medicalbrigades.org

Phone: +1 (206) 489-4798


Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Medical Brigades

About Us

Florida Atlantic University 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.



Upcoming Initiatives

Florida Atlantic University Medical Brigade August 2025 Guatemala

Global Brigades offers 7-9 day Medical Brigades throughout the year in Honduras, Panama, Ghana, Guatemala, Greece and Belize. During a Medical Brigade, volunteers have the opportunity to take vitals and patient history in triage, shadow licensed doctors in medical consultations, and assist in a pharmacy under the direction of licensed pharmacists. Each of our partner communities receives a brigade approximately twice a year. Between brigades, our in-country team maintains relationships with the communities to provide follow-up and to conduct Community Health Worker (CHW) trainings to empower local leaders to sustain a consistent level of healthcare. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends.