… Executive Director, Amizade Global Service-Learning: "The space where international health
volunteering and good intentions collide can get very messy. Hoping to Help cleans up the …

… receiving end of the care provided by global health volunteers: the patients. We learn … health
status, access to health care, or implications for their daily lives. Those served by volunteer …

… access to primary health care. She estimates that the United States sends some 200,000
volunteers to work in international health programs. As global health volunteering increases, so …

… in international medical volunteering should read. Lasker writes about an important trend:
short-term volunteering in international health, … brief periods working on health projects in poor …

… organizations that sponsor short-term volunteer trips in global health, whether they be
NGO’… volunteer trips to achieve goals that are quite different from the improvement of health …

… interest in Global Health, have inadvertently contributed to the popularisation of a specific
Global Health business: international clinical volunteering through private volunteer placement …

… short-term experiences in global health (STEGH) represent … types of short-term global health
activities, sponsored by all types … of international health volunteers to the health workforce in …

… international health volunteering—reporting an overall larger number of negative experiences
with international health volunteers … -based health experts, volunteers were perceived as …

… Hoping to help, a roughly 250 page paperback that will fit easily into most hand/man/beach-…
the growing phenomenon that is global health volunteering. It attempts to answer key …

… a vastly unequal world. The texts intersect scholarship in critical global health studies, challenging
… from epidemic responses to global health volunteering to clinical trials and behavioral …