Kianna Nichole Musaraca

University of Illinois at Chicago

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I have such a passion for the health care field and for helping others. As an aspiring future physician and healthcare provider, I search for opportunities in which I can apply my love for medicine with my thirst to help those in need most. I love finding clubs, volunteering, or even jobs that fit with my educational and professional goals by allowing me to grow both personally and professionally. These opportunities such as UIC Global Brigades and my research at UIC have helped me to gain valuable insight into the different aspects of medical care that interest me, while simultaneously broadened my experience within the medical field.

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Organization: Global Brigades USA
Program: Medical Brigades

About Us

University of Illinois at Chicago 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.