Isabella Gomez

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Hi friends and family. I have the opportunity to travel to Panama this winter with Global Medical Brigades. They are a student-led global health and sustainable development organization. While in Panama we will be able to provide basic health services to underprivileged rural communities, where access to health is limited. We will be working along side doctors, dentists, and pharmacists, we will be able to do many things from shadowing to evaluating patients, to teaching children proper health habits. As the expenses of traveling to a foreign country are pretty high, it would be of great help and greatly appreciate if you could help me out. Anything counts and helps, there is no specific amount that you can donate. Your donations will help with airfair, room and board, and medical supplies expenses. I am very grateful and exited for this opportunity. Thank you so much for your help!

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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 August 2025 Guatemala

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.