Traveling Doctors Are Filling the Gaps in Rural France
By sending doctors to small-town clinics for just one week at a time, Médecins Solidaires is helping to remedy the country’s “medical deserts.” From Reasons to Be Cheerful
Harry Goldhagen
Last Mile Health Wins the 2026 Hilton Humanitarian Prize
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.
Carlota’s Mission: Bringing Vaccines Closer to Every Child in Rural Mozambique
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.
Going to the People: Dr. Jim Withers and Thirty Years of Street Medicine
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.
John Muir Health Marks 25 Years of Mobile Care for Contra Costa County
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.