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A Community of Health Professionals Dedicated to Sustainable Medical Serivce
Our Mission
To create meaningful and sustainable improvements in global health through a team approach, from healing patients to innovating public health solutions, by building relationships among committed health professionals, international partners, and poor communities around the world.
Our Vision
To transform international medical humanitarian work by engaging all health professionals, including students, nurses, managers, physicians, dentists, researchers, technicians, and others, to serve poor areas of the world through both individual volunteerism and institutional partnerships.
A Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Martin Makary M.D., M.P.H.
Surgeon and Public Health Reseacher
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Atul Gawande M.D., M.P.H.
Surgeon, Harvard Medical School
Assoc. Professor of Public Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Kathryn Chu M.D., M.P.H.
Epidemiologist, Operations Research
Medicin Sans Frontiers
Cape Town, South Africa
Drew Ladner
President & CEO
Lotus Forum, Inc. Healthcare Corp.
Washington D.C., USA
Michael Munson
Exec. Director, Business Development
Laureate Education
San Paolo, Brazil
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The Lotus Global Health Foundation is dedicated
to partnering with established medical charities and research efforts to coordinate personnel and resources to improve health outcomes in a sustainable and measurable way. The organization connects nurses, medical students, physcians, mid-level medical providers, and hospital administrators to serve in poor areas around the globe. |
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| What we do... |
 Coordinate International Medical Teams to areas of need, using a broad network of non-profit and medical organizations. we are dedicated to partnering with established medical charities to match health professionals with medical service opportunities. The web portal connects medical students, nurses, physcians, and mid-level medical providers to the developing world so that skills of volunteers are appropirately matched with needs.
 Research Public Health Problems with the goal of using creative solutions to health issues of delivery of care. Reseach is central to the advancement of global health. Through focused grants, The Foundation sponsors projects which strive to make novel and sustainable improvements in health. Partnering with top academic medical centers, we seek to explore non-traditional domains of health in underserved areas, such as the advancement of surgical care and hopsital administration as public health issues.
 Support Humanitarian Work by providing resources to exiting medical organizations and new organizations. We engage in broad health advocacy as stated in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Health and Human Rights. The Foundation seeks to unite all international efforts which seek to live out the core values of this declaration. We maintain that life is precious and that every human being is should have basic health needs met.
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