Community Health
What is the Community Health Initiative?
The Community Health Initiative is a venture started by two medical school classmates and emergency medicine doctors, Chris Buresh and Josh White, who had traveled to Haiti to provide short-term medical care to those in the city and in villages nearby.
They decided that they could best make a long-term impact by establishing continuity of medical care in a limited number of local villages. In June, 2009, Josh and Chris approached World Wide Village with their vision and plan, and a partnership was developed. The Community Health Initiative complements the ongoing multidisciplinary efforts of World Wide Village to improve life for the Haitian people through clean water, affordable and nutritious food, safe shelter, and economic growth through microenterprise.
What can you do?
We are quickly and efficiently
placing donations of money and medical supplies into efforts to help Haitians recover from the recent devastating earthquake. We hope that you will be inspired to help through one of the following options…
The Community Health Initiative in the Media
Chris Buresh
Iowa doctor in Haiti hails residents’ grit (Des Moines Register – January 22, 2010)
Iowa doctor helps with relief efforts in Haiti (Chicago Tribune, AP – January 22, 2010)
Doctor needs help gathering goods for Haitians (Cedar Rapids Gazette – January 15, 2010)
UI doctor to return to Haiti (Cedar Rapids Gazette – January 13, 2010)
Josh White
Decorah, Luther alumnus Dr. Josh White part of team headed to Haiti
Minnesota Lending a Hand in Haiti
All Community Health Initiative News
March 2010 –
http://spectator.uiowa.edu/2010/march/standingshakyground.html
March 18, 2010 –
Lending helping hands (Iowa City Press Citizen)
March 5, 2010 –
Haiti Visit and Update (American College of Emergency Physicians)
February 22, 2010 –
Lancaster headed to Haiti for spring break (The Globe Gazette)
February 20, 2010 –
A look at Haiti through the eyes of Minnesotans (Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune)
Video: Saving Haiti: One Doctor’s Calling (Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune)
Local response to Haiti still strong (Iowa City Press Citizen)
February 15, 2010 –
Community invited to Benefit for Haiti at Englert Theatre Feb. 22 (University of Iowa)
February 12, 2010 –
Locals to bring relief to Haitians (Clinton Herald)
February 6, 2010 –
U of I doctor strives to keep focus on Haiti (Des Moines Register)
Nightmares, hope in Haiti (Iowa City Press Citizen)
February 5, 2010 –
Building Haiti’s Health Care System (KCRG-TV News)
Team of doctors return from Haiti (KWWL)
February 1, 2010 –
“All We Could Give Them Was Tylenol” (KCRG-TV News)
‘The air was filled with suffering’ (Cedar Rapids Gazette)
UI Health Care Responds with Assistance to Haiti (University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics)
U-I doctor returns from mission to Haiti (Radio Iowa)
January 31, 2010 –
Haitians face deadly odds (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
January 30, 2010 –
Community comes to Haiti’s aid (Iowa City Press Citizen)
January 29, 2010 –
Locals coordinate Haiti relief effort (Iowa City Press Citizen)
Iowa doctor helps with relief efforts in Haiti (KTTC)
January 26, 2010 –
Hunger sharpens in Haiti (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
January 23, 2010 –
Help for Haiti (The Hawk Eye)
January 22, 2010 –
Leaving Port (WORLDmag.com)
Iowa doctor in Haiti hails residents’ grit (Des Moines Register)
