Global Outreach

While on a medical mission in Haiti before the January earthquake, Charles Cook, MD, discusses nutrition with a mother.

Ohio State’s Medical Center faculty and staff touch the lives of people around the world by assisting on many mission teams and relief efforts. Most recently, a team traveled to Haiti after the Jan. 12, 2010 earthquake. The Medical Center also sent financial support and medical supplies.

Howard Werman, MD, Emergency Medicine, and medical director of MedFlight, served as the point person for the Medical Center’s initiatives to help Haiti. He has been to Haiti in the past along with some of Ohio State's current and former residents.

 

Charles Cook, MD, FACS, FCCM, director of Surgical Critical Care, is another member of our medical center staff who has experience as a medical volunteer in Haiti.

“Helping the Haitians on a medical mission was one of the most gratifying experiences of my life. It was a stark reminder of how fortunate we are, and how much we take our health for granted in our country,” says Cook.

Learn more about what Ohio State’s Medical Center is doing to help:

Columbus Dispatch “OSU doctor finds different world of medicine”
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/02/21/haiti.html

Department of Emergency Medicine Web site: Medical Outreach
http://www.osuem.com/outreach.shtml  

Links and Resources:

American Red Cross:
www.redcross.org/

Clinton Bush Haiti Fund:
www.clintonbushhaitifund.org/  

U.S. Government Web sites on Haiti Relief:
www.usaid.gov/helphaiti/
www.whitehouse.gov/haitiearthquake

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Web site for those going to Haiti:
http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/content/news-announcements/relief-workers-haiti.aspx   

MedWish International:
www.medwish.org/

Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC):
www.aamc.org/haiti/

Partners in Health:
https://donate.pih.org

UNICEF:
https://secure.unicefusa.org