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What It's Like to Volunteer in Peru: Lilly Markowitz's FIMRC Story blog community stories fimrc fimrc alumni fimrc fellow fimrc internship fimrc programs global health volunteer program medical rotation program medical student peru professional development project huancayo public health summer international health fellowship travel volunteer volunteer experience Sep 04, 2026

 When people ask Lilly Markowitz what her favorite part of five weeks in Peru was, she does not hesitate.

"The people."

Not the hospital rotations. Not the community health campaigns. Not the surgery she observed or the workshops she led. The people — the doctors, the nurses, the children at El Ro...

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SIFH: The Global Health Fellowship That Transforms Students Into Real-World Changemakers blog fimrc fimrc fellow global health medical student peru sihf summer international health fellowship travel uganda volunteer volunteer experience Dec 29, 2025

Understanding global health is not something you learn from a textbook,  it’s something you live.
FIMRC’s Summer International Health Fellowship (SIHF) is designed exactly for that: to immerse students, pre-meds, public health majors, and healthcare professionals in a month-long, intensive, hands-on ...

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From Oregon to Costa Rica: How a Biochemistry Graduate Found Purpose Through Global Health Volunteering blog community stories costa rica fimrc fimrc fellow global health volunteer program project alajuelita summer international health fellowship volunteer experience Jun 12, 2025

At FIMRC, our mission is to make quality healthcare accessible to underserved communities around the world—and we couldn’t do it without the passion and dedication of our global volunteers. One of our most inspiring stories this year comes from Hernando Magallanes, a recent Biochemistry and Molecula...

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Getting Into Grad School blog fimrc fellow foundations in global health grad school graduate student mph virtual volunteer Sep 06, 2021

Here at FIMRC, we provide access to healthcare to underserved communities around the world, and volunteers come from near and far to help us with our mission. FIMRC has worked with a variety of volunteers passionate about global health and today, we are highlighting Keara Williams.  

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