Global health at UF
20 years of learning through giving
The UF College of Medicine’s rich tradition of student-led international service trips began in 1996 with the first Project Haiti, the longest-running international outreach program for UF medical students. “Students’ participation in global health programs leads to lifelong lessons in cultural appreciation and a better understanding of socioeconomic determinants of health and health care systems, both at home and abroad,” said Elizabeth DeVos, MD, MPH, director of International Education Programs at UF.
A Closer Look at Global health at UF:
people are served annually
each year to the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Mexico and Nicaragua
of UF service trips abroad
began in 2013 for medical students and faculty with Sichuan University and West China Hospital
of medical students participate in UF international
global health outreach programs
in 2016 earned, for the first time at the college, a “Certificate of Distinction in Discovery in Local-Global Health Equity”
