Public Health Volunteer Programs

If you have a passion and a desire to help individuals sustain healthy standards of living or to prevent the next disease outbreak, volunteering in public health is likely an ideal fit for you. But, if you wish to gain experience and open a literal world of opportunities in the field, you should seek out public health volunteer opportunities abroad, where hands-on work in communities that severely lack proper resources is (unfortunately) the norm. 

Oftentimes, regions hit hardest by public health issues are made up of developing nations. It would be naive to assume that there aren’t many significant public health initiatives in your own country; however, there tends to be more urgency and a greater need for external support outside of the developed world.

Let’s start with this: people die from preventable illnesses every single day. To begin to minimize deaths caused by preventable disease, many countries need more hands, more boots on the ground, and essentially more health volunteers to devote time toward ongoing public health efforts and projects. 

Whether you are a prospective doctor or nurse or just a concerned citizen of the world, public health volunteering abroad will carry you well into your future endeavors. Future employers will recognize and laud your willingness to work in difficult, and often high-risk, situations, and consider you to be a resourceful and compassionate individual.