Division of Global Health
Working towards improving the health and health equity for all people through education, medical outreach, and community collaboration.
Tanzania
Since 2013, UCEM Residents have traveled to Tanzania with Village Life Outreach Project (VLOP) participating in mobile field clinics, working at Roche Health Center, and working along side medical staff at Shirati District Hospital.
Guatemala
UCEM partners with UC Family Medicine and the Maya Health Alliance, to bring residents and faculty to the Western highlands of Guatemala. We help provide longitudinal primary care, urgent care, and care coordination for complex patients.
Village life Outreach Project
Founded in 2004 by Dr. Chris Lewis, Family Medicine faculty at UCMC, Village Life Outreach Project, Inc. is a non-profit organization whose work focuses on three remote and impoverished villages in the Rorya district of Tanzania, East Africa.
Maya Health Alliance
The Maya Health Alliance, a non-governmental organization founded in 2007, is located in the Western highlands of Guatemala and partners with UCMC Department of Family Medicine to bring quality health care to indigenous communities in Guatemala.
