GLOBAL BRIGADES USA

Public Health Brigades at San Jose State University

• About
  Public Health Brigade volunteers at San Jose State empower under resourced communities in the developing world to decrease life threatening diseases by improving home infrastructure and providing public health education through a 7 day Public Health Brigade in Honduras or Panama. Student volunteers can either join an existing Public Health Brigades chapter on their campus or create their own chapter and recruit other volunteers. Working side-by-side with community members, volunteers improve the overall infrastructure within the home through the construction of five projects: eco-stoves, latrines, water storage units, showers and concrete floors. The five projects were chosen based on observations of medical brigade patient records.