Celluloid Samaritans: Favorite Films About Global Health Heroes
A short list of movies about real and fictional medical heroes.
Year: 2024
Global Medical Missions Can Make You a Better Doctor
Volunteering can remind doctors why they chose this profession: to heal others, according to Dr. Robert Pearl.
Direct Relief Navigates Medical Aid to Yemen and Sudan Through Red Sea Shipping Attacks and Sudan’s Civil War
For Direct Relief, which delivers donated medicine and medical supplies for people in Yemen and Sudan – two of the world’s most troubled and impoverished countries – avoiding the Red Sea is not an option.
In Los Angeles, Occupational Therapists Tapped to Help Homeless Stay Housed
Los Angeles County is using occupational therapists to help formerly homeless residents with disabilities transition to permanent supportive housing and develop skills to live indoors, preventing evictions and returns to homelessness.
MrBeast, Operation Smile and Cleft Palates
Beast Philanthropy has taken on a medical challenge: funding Operation Smile to repair cleft palates in children living in Puebla, Mexico.