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Understanding global health takes more than lectures and textbooks. It requires immersion, humility, and real-world experience.
For Tea Sweeney, a Global Public Health and Africana Studies student at Binghamton University, the Summer International Health Fellowship (SIFH) in Bududa, Uganda became t...
Nestled high in the Peruvian Andes, Huancayo faces a silent health crisis affecting its youngest residents. Nearly half of all children under five in the JunĂn region struggle with anemia—a preventable condition that threatens their development, education, and future.
But there's hope. Global healt...
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 ...
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...
Courtney Ihaza, an alum of Howard University, took her second trip with FIMRC this winter to Project Alajuelita, Costa Rica. Read her blog to learn how her first volunteer abroad trip with FIMRC as a Summer International Health Fellow (SIHF) at Project Cavite, Philippines inspired and influenced...
Jessica Southern recently transitioned to a new role as Key Relations Manager at FIMRC HQ after spending more than seven years as Field Operations Manager at Project LimĂłn, Nicaragua. Jessica is sharing her insights on the value of partnerships since she took on this new role. Â
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