Welcome to Angels in Medicine, the site that highlights the work of medical humanitarians: individuals and organizations who alleviate suffering for vulnerable populations.
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Last Mile Health trains and pays community health workers who reach isolated villages in Liberia, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Sierra Leone, bringing basic medical care to communities that once had none. They have now received the world’s largest annual award to a nonprofit.
For four years, Carlota, a community health worker in Nawitela-Namuli, Mozambique, has built trust door to door. Through VillageReach’s Bate-Papo project, she helped bring the community its first mobile health brigade, closing the distance to routine childhood immunization.
Thirty years ago, Dr. Jim Withers began walking Pittsburgh’s alleys and bridges at night to treat people who would never make it to a clinic. His street medicine model has since spread to over 200 cities on six continents.
A quarter century in, John Muir Health’s Mobile Health Clinic keeps bringing free primary care, mental health support, and vaccinations straight to Contra Costa County’s uninsured and underserved, wherever they are.
Ascension Wisconsin and Outreach Community Health Centers have launched a mobile health clinic bringing preventive and acute care directly to underserved Milwaukee neighborhoods, including the homeless, building on both organizations’ decades-long commitment to serving the city’s most vulnerable residents.
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