International Health Opportunities

Volunteer Programs Abroad - Short Term (2 weeks - 3 months)

• Amigos de los Americas - Public Health, Nutrition and Premed opportunities
• Cross-Cultural Solutions - Opportunities in Health Clinics and Hospitals
• International Service Learning - "Hands-on", multi-disciplinary humanitarian health programs in Central and South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Africa
• Unite for Sight Global Impact Corps - Eye care for patients living in poverty
• World Endeavors - Opportunities in Health care and Health education

Volunteer Programs Abroad - Long Term (3 months - 1 year)

• Child Family Health International (for Senior premedical students) - Opportunities in community health clinics and hospitals
• Global Volunteers - Opportunities in Health care and Medicine
• Jesuit Volunteer Corps - Opportunities in nonprofit health care organizations nationally and internationally
• Operation Crossroads Africa - Medical outreach projects in villages and towns
• Peace Corps - Opportunities in Hospitals and Clinics addressing HIV/AIDS
• Project Concern International - Opportunities in health and medicine
• Projects Abroad - Opportunities in Medicine
• Rural Community Development Program - Nepal - Opportunities in underdeveloped and understaffed hospitals and clinics
• Visions in Action - Opportunities in medical clinics

Internship Programs Abroad

• Cultural Vistas - Program in Spain in field of interest
• Cross-Cultural Solutions - Opportunities in Health
• IES Abroad - Opportunities in Health and Medicine
• Internship International
• UC Education Abroad Program - Health Internship Placement upon request
• World Endeavors - Opportunities in health

Study Abroad Programs in the Sciences

• Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE) - Programs with courses in Biological Sciences
• Knowledge Exchange Institute - Provides programs and research opportunities in premedical studies, biomedical and health sciences in Russia and Thailand
• UC Education Abroad Program at Partner Universities - Courses in Molecular, Cellular, Developmental and Medical Biology

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