Our Partners in Haiti
The following medical organizations are valuable partners with Operation Smile's Haiti relief efforts. We would like to thank them for their support and look forward to continuing this collaborative effort to help ease the suffering in Haiti.
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
The Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI) is a university-wide center involving multiple entities within the Harvard community that provide expertise in public health, medicine, social science, management, and other disciplines to promote evidence-based approaches to humanitarian assistance. The mission of the Initiative is to relieve human suffering in war and disaster by advancing the science and practice of humanitarian response worldwide. www.hhi.harvard.edu
MSV Foundation
The Medical Society of Virginia Foundation is the charitable arm of the Virginia's professional association for physicians. Our mission is to better equip the physician community to improve the health of Virginians. We are working right now to connect physicians interested in volunteering in Haiti with medical relief opportunities.
We have created a fund, the Haiti Physician Volunteer Transportation Fund, to assist with the transportation needs of physician teams going to and from Haiti. More information about the MSV Foundation and the fund can be found at foundation.msv.org.
Operation Blessing
Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation (OBI) is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) humanitarian organization headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with a mission to demonstrate God's love by alleviating human need and suffering in the United States and around the world. To learn more about our current relief efforts and other ongoing projects in Haiti, please visit www.operationblessing.org/haitiprojects. For daily updates on OBI’s relief efforts, visit www.operationblessing.org/haiti.
Partners In Health
Partners In Health has been working on the ground in Haiti for over 20 years. Through long-term partnerships with sister organizations, Partners In Health brings the benefits of modern medical science to those most in need and work to alleviate the crushing economic and social burdens of poverty that exacerbate disease. For more information about Partners In Health and their relief efforts in Haiti, please visit www.pih.org.
Physicians for Peace
Physicians for Peace mobilizes healthcare providers to take their teaching skills to developing countries. In Haiti since 2005, its “Walking Free” program helped establish sustainable prosthetic and rehabilitation centers there by training host country prosthetists, orthotists and physicals therapists. By partnering with Haiti’s only two such centers, Healing Hands for Haiti and St. Vincent’s School for Disabled Children, PFP has helped improved capacity by enhancing equipment production techniques as well as providing direct patient care, surgical management and public education. For more information, go to www.physiciansforpeace.org.
UVA School of Medicine
The University of Virginia School of Medicine has a long tradition of excellence in a highly collaborative atmosphere throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia and beyond. The UVA Center for Global Health has worked in Port au Prince, Haiti for almost three decades, providing care for people living with HIV and other infectious diseases. For more information about UVA’s relief efforts in Haiti, please visit www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/cgh/home.cfm.
Riverside Health System
Riverside Health System is a non-profit, physician directed healthcare system with over 340 contracted physicians across nearly every specialty. We are committed to the health and wellness of our community during every life stage and in over 130 locations, we provide coordinated and affordable access to some of the most medically distinguished physicians in the country. Using state of the art technology, we deliver some of the best medical outcomes possible. We have the Peninsula's only Trauma Center, Certified Stroke Center, Open Heart Surgery Center, Radiosurgery Center and older adult services and facilities to help our aging population "age gracefully." To learn more, spend some time with us at http://www.riversideonline.com/.
