DGH General Assembly 2025 Follow-up and Thank You!
Dear DGH Community,
Thank you to everyone who joined us for this year’s DGH General Assembly – both in-person and virtual participants! It was inspiring to be in community with so many dedicated individuals—longtime members, new faces, and partners—who continue to stand up against injustice and advocate for a more just and equitable world.
The conversations we shared, the stories we heard, and the collective energy throughout the weekend were powerful reminders of why this work matters. From powerful testimonies and organizing efforts, healing justice, and solidarity with communities globally, your presence and contributions made this gathering truly meaningful.
We left this assembly not only moved but called into action. Whether you’re on the ground, in clinics, behind the scenes, or organizing in your communities, thank you for your commitment and for showing up with your full hearts.
On behalf of the DGH Board, we are grateful to be in this work alongside you. We look forward to continuing the conversations, building with one another, and taking bold steps together toward liberation.
As has been our custom after each General Assembly, we welcome the role of bringing together all participants as a way of encouraging future communication. IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO HAVE YOUR NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS SHARED WITH ALL GA PARTICIPANTS, please respond I OPT OUT to me at shirleynovak@yahoo.com. If we don’t hear back from you in one week’s time, an email will be sent out with ALL names and email addresses visible to all. Yours will be omitted from the list if you opt out, but you will still receive the list.
With gratitude and solidarity,
Shirley Novak, Treasurer, and the DGH Board
DGH Statement on Gaza
June 20th, 2024
We, Doctors for Global Health, write with a broken heart, this letter to publicly condemn the
horrific atrocities ongoing in Gaza, which the UN Special Rapporteur has stated that there are
“reasonable grounds” to declare a genocide.1 As a US based organization, we write to call for
an immediate ceasefire and the cessation of offensive US military aid to Israel. We are a small
private not-for-profit international organization composed of health professionals, artists,
therapists, musicians, educators, parents, survivors of war, and a myriad of other labels. We
were founded in the mountains of El Salvador in 1995, amid the grief and poverty of a post civil-
war society out of a spirit of health internationalism. Since then we have dedicated our time to
accompany communities in Argentina, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua,
Peru, Uganda, and the United States. We find inspiration from the principles of liberation
medicine, the conscious and conscientious use of health to promote social justice, human
dignity, human rights and peace.
There is so much suffering in this world we find ourselves, but since the brutal murder of 1200
lives by Hamas on October 7th, the onslaught of devastation has been overwhelming. The
ongoing atrocities perpetrated by the state of Israel, funded and armed by the US government,
has as of this writing killed over 37,000, wounded 81,000, a large percentage being women and
children. It has displaced the majority of the 2,000,000 inhabitants of the Gaza Strip.
Furthermore, 723 healthcare workers have been killed, another 924 wounded and 450 health
facilities attacked. In addition, the use of starvation to further devastate the Palestinian people
is a clear form of collective punishment and an international war crime.2
We call for an immediate ceasefire, the release of all Palestinian prisoners and Israeli hostages,
the immediate release of all humanitarian aid to Gaza, the cessation of all offensive military
weapons to Israel. We call for the right to return for those displaced in Gaza. We call for the end
of state-backed violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and for the end of the Israeli
occupation of Palestinian Territories. We call for an end to the brutal repression in all its forms of
protesting college students and activists who are valiantly rising up against these atrocities and
standing for justice.
DGH’s affirmation that every human life is equally precious compels us to stand with those who
struggle for social justice, human rights and peace. True health is based on people living free of
oppression, violence and colonization. The Palestinian people, the Israeli people deserve no
less. May we honor the words of the Palestinian poet Dr. Refaat Alareer, killed by an Israeli
airstrike with his family in December 2023:
If I must die
“If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze–and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself–
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love
If I must die
let it bring hope
let it be a tale”3
May we find our way back to ourselves, to stop the killing, and begin building a world worthy of
all of our children.
Doctors for Global Health, DGH
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- “Rights expert finds ‘reasonable grounds’ genocide is being committed in Gaza“
“I am now persuaded that Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. What has changed my mind is its sustained
policy of obstructing the movement of humanitarian assistance into the territory.”
Aryeh Neier, German-born Jewish Holocaust survivor, founder of Human Rights Watch.
ICJ finds genocide case against Israel ‘plausible’, orders it to stop violations
A top U.N. court says Gaza genocide is ‘plausible’ but does not order cease-fire ↩︎
- “WHO situational report”
Gaza: Hamas, Israel committed war crimes, claims independent rights probe ↩︎
- “If I Must Die” ↩︎
DGH Keynote Speakers for the General Assembly (July 18th- 20th, 2025)!
Feroze Sidhwa is a general, trauma, and critical care surgeon in California. He is also a humanitarian surgeon, having worked most extensively in Palestine, but also in Ukraine, Haiti, Zimbabwe, and Burkina Faso. He most recently volunteered at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, Gaza from March 25-April 8, 2024 with the World Health Organization, and again from March 3 – April 1, 2025, with American NGO MedGlobal. He has written and spoken extensively about surgical humanitarian work, the United States’ role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the political consequences of medical relief work. He approaches the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a secular American and as a humanitarian physician.
Matt Meyer is an internationally noted historian, orator, and organizer who serves as Secretary-General of the International Peace Research Association, Senior Research Scholar of the University of Massachusetts/Amherst’s Resistance Studies Initiative, and the author/editor of over a dozen books, including his most recent work Beyond Our Current Boundaries: Peace Studies from Africa and the Global South (Africa World Press, 2025). He also served as the founding Educational Director of St. Luke/Roosevelt Hospital’s Comprehensive Adolescent Rehabilitation and Educational Services unit (CARES) in New York City. As part of their Department of Adolescent and Child Psychiatry, he led clinical delegations to Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Rwanda. Meyer also served as the National Chairperson of the secular nonviolence organization War Resisters League from 1985-1990, a position previously held by his long-term comrade Linnea Capps from 1982-1990. Argentine Nobel Peace Laureate Adolfo Perez Esquivel, in his Introduction to Meyer’s encyclopedic look at issues of US imprisonment, Let Freedom Ring, stated that Meyer’s “consistent work as a coalition-builder…provides tools for today’s activists.”
Invited Speakers:
John Cavanagh is a Senior Advisor of the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). He was Director of IPS from 1999-2021 and directed IPS’ Global Economy Program from 1983-1997. Cavanagh is the co-author of 12 books and numerous articles on a wide range of social and economic issues. His newest book (with Robin Broad) is The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved a Country from Corporate Greed. He co-authored (with Richard J. Barnet) Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order, which sold over 60,000 copies with Simon & Schuster. Cavanagh co-led a 24-person team to create the International Forum on Globalization book Alternatives to Economic Globalization, which sold over 20,000 copies and was translated into 12 languages. Cavanagh sits on the boards of the Congressional Progressive Caucus Center, Jobs with Justice, Resilience Force, and the Fund for Constitutional Government. He is a senior advisor of the Poor People’s Campaign and the Blue Mountain Center, and he worked as an economist for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (1978-1981) and the World Health Organization (1981-1982). He served on the Civil Society Advisory Committee of the UN Development Program (2000-2012). He received a Bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, and a Masters from Princeton University.
Dr. Cleo Silvers is a pioneering community and labor organizer whose decades-long activism has helped shape public health policy, workers’ rights, and social justice across the United States. Her journey began in 1966 as a VISTA Volunteer in the South Bronx, where she was trained in Saul Alinsky’s organizing methods—knocking on doors, listening to people’s concerns, and building grassroots power from the ground up.
Silvers quickly became a key figure in the South Bronx, co-founding multiple block associations and coalitions, including the Trinity Avenue, Jackson Avenue, and Kelly Street Block Associations, as well as Lincoln Detox and the Think Lincoln Committee (TLC). These grassroots alliances brought together community members, interns, doctors, Young Lords, Black Panthers, and hospital workers. As co-chair of the Health Revolutionary Unity Movement (HRUM), Cleo co-authored the original Patient Bill of Rights, a groundbreaking document whose principles—like informed consent, the right to refuse treatment, and access to one’s medical records—have since become standard in hospitals across the U.S.
A vocal critic of medical exploitation and inequality, Cleo participated in three takeovers of Lincoln Hospital. The movements demanded living wages for workers, community-controlled healthcare, and drug detox programs not reliant on substances like methadone. HRUM, under Cleo’s leadership, published For the People’s Health and was instrumental in advancing the call for “free, quality, preventive healthcare for all.”
Cleo’s activism extended into labor organizing through her work with the League of Revolutionary Black Workers and the Black Workers Congress (BWC). As a labor organizer and autoworker at the Dodge Truck plant in Detroit, she led study groups and authored the pamphlet From Detroit to Durban. Her organizing efforts spanned major working-class cities nationwide, cementing her role as a second-line leader in revolutionary labor movements.
After these organizations dissolved, Cleo relocated to Los Angeles, taking on a wide range of jobs—from front desk clerk at the YMCA to assistant to a producer for the 1988 Olympics. Even then, she continued her advocacy, including efforts to unionize community college faculty. She eventually returned to New York in 1995 and was hired by 1199/SEIU—ironically, the same hospital workers’ union she’d once joined at Lincoln Hospital. She worked as a Training Field Coordinator before becoming Executive Director of For A Better Bronx, an environmental justice nonprofit.
In 2007, she was recruited to direct outreach for the 9/11 Medical Program at Mount Sinai’s Selikoff Center for Occupational and Environmental Medicine, where she remained until her retirement in 2014.
At age 60, Cleo graduated summa cum laude from Cornell University with a degree in Labor Relations, serving as her class valedictorian. Now actively retired in Memphis, Tennessee, she continues to mentor youth, consult for the historic Cossitt Library, and is currently working on her memoirs.
Cleo Silvers’ life has been a testament to the power of collective action, a deep belief in human dignity, and an unwavering commitment to justice—from the streets of the South Bronx to the libraries of Memphis.
Patricia Gonzalez-Zuniga is a physician with decades of clinical experience working with marginalized communities in Tijuana, Mexico and the U.S.- Mexico border. She is founder and director of La Clinica de Heridas (The Wound Clinic) an organization dedicated to health autonomy and liberation for all.
Lourdes Palacio is the Coordinator of the Committee of Families of Politically Imprisoned and Persecuted Persons of El Salvador (COFAPPES) since 2021, and was previously Representative for the Department of San Salvador in the Legislative Assembly from 2006 to 2015 as well as Undersecretary of Participation, Transparency, and Anti-Corruption during the administration of President Salvador Sánchez Cerén of the FMLN, 2015-2019. She has degrees in education and economics, and is currently a Master’s student in Interculturality at the Pedagogical University of El Salvador. She is a founding member of several civic associations recognized for their work in support of communities and social sectors in the defense of human rights, as well as a proponent in the formulation of public, legislative, and executive policies on the human right to water and sanitation, the law prohibiting metallic mining, women’s citizen and political participation, transparency mechanisms, human rights, and democracy.
Irma Julieta Cruz Nava, MD is a native of Mexico and a founding member of Doctors for Global Health. Dra. Irma worked for many years in El Salvador training health promoters with then DGH partner Medicos por el Derecho a la Salud. She then returned to Mexico, and has led DGH’s programs in Oaxaca, México. Currently, DGH works with Comunidades Campesinas en Camino (CCC, Rural Communities in Cooperation), which is a rural agricultural worker’s collective that represents several thousand local organic farmers in indigenous communities throughout the state. The mission of CCC is to establish an alternative socio-economic model guided by principles of solidarity, transparency, community participation, advancement of human rights, and respect for the environment and local cultures. Current project work in partnership with DGH integrates themes of health and well-being into the existing agricultural work of CCC. Dra. Irma is a lifelong learner and teacher. She holds a degree in Health Promotion and has also studied Health Administration. She completed extensive training in acupuncture and other integrative health modalities, and she is also a professor at a local university. She has served as a member of the board of DGH and continues to embody liberation medicine in her life work.
Juan Manuel Canales Ruiz, MD is a Mexican physician who has worked for over 30 years alongside campesinos and indigenous people in their struggle for a better life in rural El Salvador and Chiapas, Mexico. Currently, he is supported by DGH in his work in the autonomous Zapatista communities surrounding Altamirano, Chiapas and at Hospital San Carlos in Altamirano. He trains health promoters from these remote communities and assists them in attending to minor illnesses and planning preventive activities, such as vaccination campaigns. The Zapatista autonomous municipalities have a very strong governing structure built around the Juntas de Buen Gobierno (Good Government Councils). Dr. Canales meets with authorities at both the community level and the governing body for the whole zone to plan health work. He also works with DGH volunteers based at Hospital San Carlos in Chiapas, teaching about rights-based, community development that is an essential component of practicing Liberation Medicine. In 2006, Dr. Canales was awarded the Jonathan Mann Award for Health and Human Rights.
Jose Ramiro Cortez Argueta is a trained Health Promoter and holds the Executive Director position of the local NGO, Association of Peasants for Human Development (C.D.H. – Asociación de Campesinos para el Desarrollo Humano) in Canton Estancia, Cacaopera, Morazán, EL SALVADOR.
Ramiro was born and raised in rural poverty and, as a young teen, joined the insurgency in the 1980s because he “saw no other option open” to him. Soon after the signing of the Peace Accords in 1992, Ramiro began the local community health promoter course and completed his basic high school studies in the Distance Education system. He was the Supervisor of Health Promoters with the Salvadoran NGO Doctors for the Right to Health (MDS – Médicos por el Derecho a la Salud) and since August 2004, he has served as Executive Director of the DGH partner, the Association of Peasants for Human Development (C.D.H.), a legal NGO in Morazán.
Shepherded under Ramiro’s guidance, the mission of CDH is “to bring together, strengthen, and organize our communities to find solutions to the common problems we face, bringing about comprehensive human development.” It envisions a future in which communities have the health, education, housing, economic, communication, and transportation infrastructure necessary to live dignified lives and participate fully in the life of their country. Encouraged by Ramiro’s dedication and commitment to community projects for the development and improvement of his community, he has successfully overseen grants that have undertaken projects in health, nutrition, grass-roots self-development and education, including building a bridge that connected isolated parts of the community and building dignified housing for many families in the community.
Recognizing that lack of health and healthcare affect not only the individual but also the family and community-at-large, C.D.H., under Ramiro’s leadership, has made great strides working strategically and effectively toward bringing the basic human rights of health and well-being to the communities of Estancia. Ramiro is an important and valued member of the C.D.H. organization and community-at-large and lives in his community of origin with his nuclear family.
José Ramiro Laínez Sorto is the current president of CoCoSI. He has a degree in journalism from the University of El Salvador and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Dr. José Simeón Cañas Central American University. He has over 10 years of experience serving as a communications coordinator, project coordinator, and national social advocacy coordinator in key areas such as housing, human rights of people living with HIV and key populations, education, leadership, and community organizing. He has promoted research and academic articles on human rights and the environment, and designed communication policies, strategies, and campaigns for the Salvadoran MCR (Ministry of Culture and Development) and ADES (Association of Social Development and Development). He has also participated in consulting projects for the development of a Community Care Protocol, with a special focus on care for LGBTI+ people in vulnerable situations in El Salvador. He has extensive experience as a facilitator on human rights-related issues, working with representatives of civil society organizations and public officials, and has managed press conferences and consulted on gender mainstreaming in communication products for local governments and other institutions.
Peter Nataren: Peter is a Salvadoran activist, prominent in the current context of repression against Salvadoran civil society, under the impunity imposed by the unconstitutional government of Nayib Bukele. He was trained under the popular education pedagogy system in the 1990s in the Santa Marta community. He holds specialized degrees in “Methodologies for Developing Organic Agriculture in Tropical Climates” from the Rural Development Institute, Ltr. of Ibaraki, Japan and is currently studying Agroindustrial Engineering at the National University of El Salvador. Since 2006, he has also directed INVER (Rural Plant Innovation), a center that develops technologies for the transition to high-quality agricultural automation. In 2023, the American Public Health Association (APHA) awarded him the “EXCELLENCE IN CLIMATE LEADERSHIP AWARD.”
He is a member of the founding team of the community newspaper Abriendo Brecha (Abriendo Brecha), https://www.abriendobrecha.org/, and of the Radio Sin Farsas (Sin Farsas) interview program, https://www.facebook.com/SinFarsas. His interviewees include Noam Chomsky. He has been invited to events in several countries to speak on political issues, education, alternative media, human rights, the environment, agricultural technologies, participatory rural development, and the solidarity economy. He directs diplomatic relations in the case of the five environmental leaders of ADES/Santa Marta, who are currently persecuted by the Salvadoran government for opposing the mining industry in El Salvador. He is one of the founders of the meeting of former refugee communities, which brings together thousands of people each year in Mesa Grande, Honduras. In 2014, he led the Santa Marta Historical Memory team, which, together with the University of Washington, won a lawsuit against the CIA and the State Department, allowing the release of secret files on the Lempa River massacre. He is a member of several national and international networks on politics, agriculture, health, and the environment, and teaches classes on organic agriculture and technology introduction with various community groups in the country. He was recently elected president of the Santa Marta Cooperative, where he works to manage various community development projects in Santa Marta.
Invited Organizations:
Trans Latin@ Coalition: Founded in 2009, The TransLatin@ Coalition (TLC) emerged as a grassroots movement led by a group of Transgender, Gender Expansive, and Intersex (TGI) immigrant women in Los Angeles, California. Recognizing the urgent and unique needs of TGI Latin@ immigrants in the United States, these trailblazers came together to create a space for advocacy, empowerment, and direct support. Over the years, TLC has grown into a nationally recognized organization with representation in 10 states across the U.S. While continuing to advocate for systemic change, TLC also provides direct services to TGI individuals in Los Angeles. In 2015, the organization established the Center for Violence Prevention and Transgender Wellness in response to widespread structural, institutional, and interpersonal violence impacting the TGI community. With funding from state and local governments, as well as private foundations, TLC continues to expand its services throughout Los Angeles County. TLC’s primary mission is to break down barriers to essential services and ensure that all TGI individuals have access to the comprehensive resources they need to thrive.
Youth Justice Coalition: The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is working to build a youth, family, and formerly and currently incarcerated people’s movement to challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination in Los Angeles County’s, California’s and the nation’s juvenile and criminal injustice systems.
The YJC’s goal is to dismantle policies and institutions that have ensured the massive lock-up and deportation of people of color, increasing law enforcement violence and militarization, violation of youth and communities’ Constitutional and human rights, the construction of a vicious school-to-jail track, and the build-up of the world’s largest network of jails and prisons. We use transformative justice and community intervention/peacebuilding, FREE LA High School, know your rights, participatory defense, and police and court monitoring to “starve the beast” – promoting safety in our schools, homes and neighborhoods without relying on punishment and suppression, preventing system contact, and pulling people out of the system. We use direct action organizing, advocacy, political education, and activist arts to agitate, expose, and pressure the people in charge in order to upset power and bring about change.
For more information, visit: youthjusticela.org
All Power Free Clinic (invited) believes that healthcare is a right for every single person, and that everyone deserves quality care regardless of anything else. The U.S. healthcare system has failed so many and they hope to fill some of the gaps by providing preventative healthcare and educating communities about their health. They have done pop up clinics, providing blood pressure and sugar checks, wound care, education, and expanding to mobile teams.
IDEPSCA (invited) is committed to the transformation of creating a more humane and democratic world through the use of popular education, defined as a process of analysis, critical and participative reflection through economic, political, and sociocultural realities that arise from impoverished organized groups. Specifically, IDEPSCA’s goal is to organize and educate low-income community members who want to resolve problems in their own communities. IDEPSCA’s roots trace back to 1984 when a group of students and parents met in Central Park in the City of Pasadena to confront racism, educational inequalities, and the lack of affordable housing. Stories of joy, struggle, and hope became mirrors for educational and organizing processes. This experience, and systematic practice that evolved from it, has given the Institute the tools and methods to successfully work with low-immigrant workers and other groups committed to solving problems in their own communities.
DGH Statement on Immigration / Declaración sobre inmigración
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Doctors for Global Health Statement on Immigration:
We strongly condemn the ongoing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids being carried out across the United States. These raids are not only cruel and inhumane, but they are also a deeply flawed approach to immigration enforcement that undermines the core values of justice, due process, and human dignity.
ICE raids target hardworking families, tear parents from their children, and spread fear through entire communities—often without regard for individual rights, legal status, or contributions to society. These actions do nothing to make us safer. Instead, they weaken community bonds and discourage cooperation with law enforcement, including victims of crimes who are afraid to come forward.
We reject the use of militarized force and surprise home or workplace raids as tools of immigration policy. They are traumatizing, unnecessary, and often conducted without adequate judicial oversight or transparency. The presence of ICE in schools, hospitals, and places of worship is a violation of sacred spaces and an affront to the basic principles of human rights. It is not lost on us that the point of these tactics is to be cruel, disruptive and to create chaos.
We call for an immediate halt to these cruel ICE raids and urge Congress and the administration to pursue comprehensive immigration reform that prioritizes dignity, fairness, the ‘rule of law’ and justice for all. The United States must do better because our values demand it, and millions of lives depend on it.
In Hope and Action,
DGH Board
Declaración sobre inmigración:
Condenamos enérgicamente las redadas que el Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) lleva a cabo en todo Estados Unidos. Estas redadas no solo son crueles e inhumanas, sino que también representan un enfoque profundamente defectuoso para la aplicación de la ley migratoria que socava los valores fundamentales de la justicia, el debido proceso y la dignidad humana.
Las redadas del ICE se dirigen a familias trabajadoras, separan a los padres de sus hijos y siembran el miedo en comunidades enteras, a menudo sin tener en cuenta los derechos individuales, la situación legal ni las contribuciones a la sociedad. Estas acciones no contribuyen en absoluto a nuestra seguridad. Al contrario, debilitan los lazos comunitarios y desalientan la cooperación con las fuerzas del orden, incluyendo a las víctimas de delitos que temen denunciar.
Rechazamos el uso de la fuerza militarizada y las redadas sorpresivas en domicilios o lugares de trabajo como herramientas de la política migratoria. Son traumáticas, innecesarias y, a menudo, se llevan a cabo sin la debida supervisión judicial ni transparencia. La presencia del ICE en escuelas, hospitales y lugares de culto constituye una violación de los espacios sagrados y una afrenta a los principios básicos de los derechos humanos. No ignoramos que el objetivo de estas tácticas es la crueldad. Exigimos el cese inmediato de estas crueles redadas de ICE y insistimos al Congreso y a la administración a impulsar una reforma migratoria integral que priorice la dignidad, la equidad y la justicia para todos. Estados Unidos debe actuar mejor porque nuestros valores lo exigen y millones de vidas dependen de ello.
Con esperanza y acción,
Junta Directiva de DGH
DGH General Assembly- July 18th-20th, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA!
DGH General Assembly- July 18th-20th, 2025 in Los Angeles, CA!
We’re excited to announce that registration for DGH is now officially open! Doctors for Global Health (DGH) is excited to invite you to our upcoming General Assembly in Los Angeles — a space where health activists, physicians, students, community organizers, and global health advocates come together to share stories, strengthen solidarity, and build actionable pathways toward health justice.
Join us on July 18th – 20th for our 27th Anniversary General Assembly for Doctors for Global Health. This year’s theme is Building Community: Defending Human Rights through Liberation Medicine.
What to Expect:
– Inspiring keynote speakers from local and global movements
– Interactive workshops on liberation medicine, grassroots advocacy, and community organizing
– Reflections from DGH partners across the U.S. and Latin America
Register here: https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E95864&id=48&fbclid=IwY2xjawK-3S5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFtWlViaUJPS0luMm54YmFTAR72kSYRakrByy7da3oyk5iQKiu4acRHF0hCGmIbz–kPfB003RHNURh00xSmA_aem_QfoRlCycSo58uNeV2QZqWQ
Whether you’re a longtime member or new to the DGH family, we welcome you to be part of this energizing and transformative weekend. Let’s reimagine and rebuild systems that honor life, dignity, and justice.
Join us in Los Angeles — where community meets commitment.
In solidarity,
Doctors for Global Health
You can also send checks to:
Doctors for Global Health
P. O. Box 1761
Decatur, GA 30031 U.S.A.
Our non-profit, tax-exempt ID number is EIN: 58-2194069
About Doctors For Global Health and its Global Health Initiatives
Doctors for Global Health is comprised of hundreds of health professionals, students, educators, artists, attorneys, engineers, retirees, and others. Together, we build long-term relationships between people and communities around the world to find effective solutions to social justice issues.
DGH has a unique way of carrying out its mission and global health initiatives, focusing on helping to make underserved communities healthy in the broadest definition possible. DGH supports community-oriented projects, including primary care, health education, vaccination campaigns, childhood nutrition programs, physical rehabilitation programs, and more in the communities where it works. DGH believes in and promotes human rights as a fundamental component of health, which is critical for to self-determination. In addition, DGH believes education is essential to a community’s health, as is economic well-being and environmental safety.
Furthermore, DGH interweaves the arts into its work, believing the soul needs nourishing as much as the body. DGH works closely with the communities that it accompanies in participatory investigation: being invited by the community, working with it to explore its strengths and weaknesses in health, establishing priorities toward better health, developing initiatives to address the chosen priorities, and evaluating their success. DGH works side-by-side with community members as partners rather than clients or victims. Doctors for Global Health sees empowering and walking with communities as key to global health initiatives.
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