Elena Jaramillo

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Health care professionals are there for people on some of their lowest days. I love the idea that I be able to help people and impact their lives. In countries like Panama, people don’t have regular access to doctors and medicine. It is really incredible how Global Brigades helps these people and impacts their communities. I am very grateful to have been chosen to go on this brigade and cannot wait to give the people in these villages access to medicine that they would otherwise not get while being immersed in their community and culture. I hope to one day be an ER nurse so that I can impact the lives of people on a daily basis. I hope that you’ll consider supporting this cause and my journey. I need to raise $1895 by January. Thank you for your donations!


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Website: http://globalbrigades.org

Phone: 512-827-8686


Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Medical Brigades

About Us

University of Texas Austin is a chapter of Global Medical Brigades, an international movement of students and medical professionals working alongside local communities and staff to implement sustainable health systems. We work in remote, rural, and under resourced communities in Honduras, Panama, Nicaragua and Ghana who would otherwise have limited to no access to health care. Each community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are provided access to healthcare and volunteers deliver public health workshops. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends. nnIn conjunction with our Medical Program, Global Brigades also supports communities with economic development, sanitation and clean water projects, and uniquely implements these programs in a holistic model to meet a community’s health and economic goals. Our model systematically builds community ownership and collaboratively executes programs with the end goal of sustainably evolving to a relationship of impact monitoring. To learn more, please visit www.globalbrigades.org.



Upcoming Initiatives

University of Texas Austin Medical Brigade May 2026 Ghana

Global Brigades offers 7-9 day Medical Brigades throughout the year in Honduras, Panama, Ghana, Guatemala, Greece and Belize. During a Medical Brigade, volunteers have the opportunity to take vitals and patient history in triage, shadow licensed doctors in medical consultations, and assist in a pharmacy under the direction of licensed pharmacists. Each of our partner communities receives a brigade approximately twice a year. Between brigades, our in-country team maintains relationships with the communities to provide follow-up and to conduct Community Health Worker (CHW) trainings to empower local leaders to sustain a consistent level of healthcare. Electronic patient records are collected for future visitations and to monitor overall community health trends.