Dr. James Sirleaf’s career took a detour a few years ago during a visit to see his mother, Liberia’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – the first women to be elected president in modern Africa – and a 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Dr. Sirleaf, educated at Morehouse College in Atlanta and Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., visited Liberia in... »

Dr. Kwan Kew Lai is one of those people who has to add extra pages to her passport. Her global health resume includes a 2009 trip to treat AIDS patients in South Africa and travel to Haiti in 2010 to help those affected by a devastating cholera outbreak.

But in 2011 she took on a challenge that gave even this veteran of the skies pause. Dr. Lai traveled... »

When Dr. Andrea Zaenglein was a medical student at Pennsylvania State University doing her dermatology rotation, she heard a presentation that changed the course of her life.

The chief of the dermatology department at Penn State at the time, Dr. Donald Lookingbill, shared his experiences working at the Regional Dermatology Training Center (RDTC) in Moshi,... »

After graduating from the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Dr. Julia Shelton wanted to go to a developing country, not only to see how other health systems are run but also to see if she could immerse herself in a system with limited resources, and still provide quality health care. That desire to test her mettle led her to participate in Vanderbilt... »

Dr. Danesh Modi, and his wife, Dr. Valerie Bonica, participated in a month-long global health rotation that sent them to the Andes Mountains of Ecuador in January 2011. Dr. Modi primarily worked at two hospitals in the city of Riobamba, while Dr. Bonica saw patients in their homes or in several small clinics located in villages throughout a rural region... »

Dr. Christopher Boni discusses Waves of Health, a nonprofit association he co-founded in 2007. Dr. Boni and his medical residents who are interested in overseas medical mission work make regular trips to a small town in the Dominican Republic.

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The Over the Shoulder program gives recent graduates of Iraqi medical schools a chance to get hands-on training with U.S. military physicians and other medical personnel to see how they do their jobs and in July 2010 Lt. Col. Edward McDaniel found himself in charge of it.

As the medical director of the Ortiz Medical Clinic at Forward Operating Base... »