Background Growing concerns about the value and effectiveness of short-term volunteer
trips intending to improve health in underserved Global South communities has driven the …

In post-conflict settings, severe disruption to health systems invariably leaves populations at
high risk of disease and in greater need of health provision than more stable resource-poor …

This paper contributes to the public and academic debate on the appropriateness of young
Westerners' participation in projects of volunteer tourism conducted in developing countries …

It has been argued that much of international medical volunteering is done for the wrong
reasons, in that local people serve as a means to meet volunteers' needs, or for the right …

Despite unprecedented recent expansion of international volunteering and service (IVS),
there has been relatively little research on impacts. This paper proposes a conceptual model …

Overseas volunteering has exploded in numbers and interest in the last couple of decades.
Every year, hundreds of thousands of people travel from wealthier to poorer countries to …

In this Policy Forum, the Bellagio Essential Surgery Group, which was formed to advocate for
increased access to surgery in Africa, recommends four priority areas for national and …

The international migration of health workers has been described by Nelson Mandela as the
poaching of desperately needed skills from under-privileged regions. This book examines …

In this perspective article, we argue that too often, foreign and developmental aid devolves
into a form of imperialism and colonialism that we more fully define in the article. We believe …

Previous research suggests that international volunteer service may have both positive and
negative effects on host organizations. Applying a capacity-building perspective, this study …