UMBC Chapter Currently 76 Members!!

The UMBC Medical/Public Health hybrid chapter was founded on our campus in Fall 2012. We completed our first ever brigade through this program when we travelled to eastern Panamá in March 2014 for a week-long brigade. We completed construction of a residential compost latrine for a public health project, and we were also able to provide volunteers for a mobile medical clinic that provide free primary care, medications, and health education lessons to the Alto del Cristo community in the Provence of Darién.

This upcoming Spring, we are planning to travel to Panama again accompanied by our Dental program for a combined brigade that will have the capacity to serve two communities this time around. To read more about we do, read below and also click the side link for Public Health brigades to learn about our work. To support a specific volunteer or donate generally to help us fund our medical supplies for the trip, click the donate button!

Medical Brigade volunteers have the opportunity to shadow licensed doctors in medical consultations and assist in a pharmacy under the direction of licensed pharmacists through a one week Medical Brigade in Honduras, Panama, Ghana, or Nicaragua. Student volunteers can either join an existing Medical Brigades chapter on their campus or create their own chapter and recruit other volunteers. Each of our partner community receives a brigade every 3 to 4 months where hundreds of patients are treated and volunteers deliver public health workshops. 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.