Rachel Edberg

Austin, TX

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I love being able to serve the world and reach out to communities desiring sustainable health. Everyone deserves access to healthcare, and I love that Global Brigades goes to medically untouched villages and towns to provide what would otherwise be mostly inaccessible. Being able to experience new cultures and do what I'm passionate about at the same time is such a blessing. Aside from learning and helping others, I love dancing, running, reading, music, and being with my family and friends! I hope that someday I'll be able to reach out to indigenous communities, or other medically underserved communities, as a physician/surgeon.

Thank you to anyone who has donated or will donate in the future. It's a blessing to say the least to have such supportive friends and family! Please pray and spread the word!

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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.