China

The Children of China Pediatrics Foundation—a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization—provides care for children with disabilities in China’s orphanages by providing exceptional multi-specialty medical treatment and hands-on training and medical education for their providers and caregivers. The foundation sends all-volunteer pediatric medical teams to China to perform surgeries on orphans to correct disfiguring birth defects and disabilities and

Free to Smile Foundation is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to supporting and sustaining comprehensive, quality surgical and dental services to poor and underprivileged children and adolescents throughout the world. Free to Smile is in constant need of volunteers for annual mission trips and depends entirely on volunteers to provide comprehensive, quality surgical and dental care.

Open Heart International provides the opportunity for those living in developing countries to receive the specialised health care that they deserve yet cannot access. Experienced surgical and medical charity volunteers are needed for overseas projects in burns surgery, cardiac, eye surgery, oncology, and women’s health. This includes a variety of anesthetists, biomedical engineers, cardiologists, intensivists,

Operation Rainbow Canada is a nonprofit organization that functions without paid staff to provide free reconstructive surgery and related health care for cleft lip and cleft palate deformities for impoverished children and young adults in developing countries. Plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, pre-op nurses, operating room nurses, recovery room nurses, night nurses, and equipment sterilizing personnel comprise

Changing People’s Lives International Ministries is a non-profit lay ministry committed to enhancing the quality of life in communist countries around the world. Medical-related volunteering options can be arranged and include humanitarian relief and medical assistance.

BMS World Mission is a charity that is working in around 35 countries on four continents. BMS personnel are mainly involved in church planting, development, disaster relief, education, health, and media and advocacy. See this link for current vacancies in health ministries.

SEE International is a nonprofit organization that provides sustainable medical, surgical, and educational services through volunteer ophthalmic surgeons with the objectives of restoring sight and preventing blindness to disadvantaged individuals worldwide.

Health Volunteers Overseas is a nonprofit organization that sends qualified volunteers overseas to train local healthcare providers in anesthesia, dermatology, hand surgery, hematology, internal medicine, nursing education, oral health, orthopaedics, oncology, pediatrics, physical therapy, and wound care.

Experiential Learning International is a small non-profit organization that sends interns and volunteer to 27 countries.

HOPE worldwide is a non-profit, faith-based volunteer program focusing on leadership training and community service throughout the world. It brings people from all different backgrounds together to work across the globe serving the world’s poor.

Global Volunteers is a nonprofit organization that mobilizes teams of short-term volunteers on long-term programs to create, nurture, and sustain the wellbeing of the world’s children, so they can realize the full promise of their human potential.   You can indeed make a significant difference when you volunteer your skills in obstetrics, maternal care, breastfeeding, child psychology, early childhood intervention,

Liaoning International General Health Trainers is a non-governmental, non-profit organization that seeks to provide excellent patient care as well as teach Chinese doctors in Western family medicine. Qualified medical volunteers may teach or provide medical care.

IDEAS is a nonprofit organization of professionals dedicated to leveraging their skills to restore hope. The Healthcare and Wellness Programs offer volunteering opportunities for doctors, dentists, lab technicians, nurses, counselors, social workers, sociologists, psychologists, music and art therapists, medical students, physiotherapists, speech therapists, diabetes specialists, registered nurses, physical and occupational therapists, family medicine physicians, pediatric occupational

Hope Without Borders is a nonprofit organization that is committed to bringing hope to communities in need by providing education, medical care, and clean water. Every year Hope Without Borders organizes international volunteer trips. Teams are made up of university students, practitioners, and professionals.

Baptist Global Response is a nonprofit relief and development organization with a heart to see the poor and suffering experience a full and meaningful life. Medical volunteer positions are available.

Operation Blessing International is a nonprofit humanitarian organization dedicated to demonstrating God’s love by alleviating human need and suffering in the United States and around the world. Strategic relief is provided in 39 countries on an ongoing basis through core programs such as disaster relief, medical aid, hunger relief, vulnerable children and orphan care, clean

Seva Foundation is a nonprofit organization focused on preventing blindness and restoring eyesight to people in need around the globe. If you’re an ophthalmologist or other health professional, it is possible that customized volunteer projects can be designed that match the needs of the organization’s partners in the U.S. states of California and New Mexico, as well

Episcopal Relief & Development is the international relief and development agency of the Episcopal Church and an independent nonprofit organization. Its programs work toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals. Together with its partners, the organization rebuilds after disasters and empowers people to create lasting solutions to poverty, hunger, and disease. Please see this link for information

RAD-AID International is a nonprofit organization with a mission to promote and improve global health care by increasing the access to radiology services in developing regions. If you are considering volunteering, please see http://www.rad-aid.org/about-us/volunteering/ for more information.

Doctor to Doctor is a nonprofit organization that provides assistance to medical professionals in underserved places around the world via volunteer medical professionals who travel abroad to meet with their colleagues in other countries. 

Operation Smile is an international medical charity that provides free surgeries for children and young adults in developing countries who are born with cleft lip, cleft palate, or other facial deformities.    Medical volunteers provide life-saving surgical and post-operative care to patients in the world’s most underserved environments. All medical volunteers are required to be active in

Project HOPE is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to achieve sustainable advances in health care around the world by implementing health education programs and providing humanitarian assistance and volunteer medical care in areas of need. Volunteers are needed. This includes nurses, ophthalmologists, physician specialists, and others.

International Medical Relief is a nonprofit organization that recruits qualified medical teams and offers short-term assignments for volunteer doctors, dentists, and other health care professionals, as well as non-medical volunteers, to conduct overseas medical clinics in areas where health care is limited or difficult to obtain.

A Broader View is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide developing countries around the world with significant volunteer programs that both aid the neediest communities and forge a lasting bond between those volunteering and those they have helped. 

Doctors Without Borders is an international medical humanitarian organization working in nearly 70 countries to assist people whose survival is threatened by violence, neglect, or catastrophe.  A wide variety of volunteers are needed: physicians, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, specialists in infectious diseases, HIV/AIDS, and TB, surgeons, nurse midwives, certified midwives, licensed mental health specialists, anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists,