The Global Health Education Foundation
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May 08, 2009 -
Since the gap between rich and poor is widening, the Global Health Education Foundation (GHEF: www.globalhef.org)
has been set up to tackle worsening disparities in healthcare.
“GHEF recognizes that there have been many worthy efforts to address healthcare disparities across the world, but that the need for additional initiatives remains,” commented Dr John Mei, GHEF’s CEO and Co-founder. “In particular, the lack of appropriate educational resources and training opportunities for healthcare professionals is one of the major barriers that many nations face in improving healthcare quality.”
“We face a great challenge in achieving our objectives, but I believe that the will exists for us to make a difference,”
commented Dr Faiz Kermani, GHEF’s President. “We hope to encourage support from a range of interested parties and harness their talents for dedicated healthcare projects in the global areas that need them most.”
Through the availability of improving communication technology, and the willingness of highly trained medical professionals who are willing to volunteer their time to educate others, GHEF is confident that the objective of improving healthcare access across the world can be achieved.
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http://www.prlog.org/10232869/1The Global Health Education Foundation (GHEF) is a non-profit organization that seeks to rectify the basic inequalities that exist in healthcare across the world. GHEF is being organized exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code. All activities in foreign countries will be on a non-profit basis only.
The organization is non-religious and non-political. GHEF will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin and ethnic origin in administration of its activities and projects.
All GHEF staff are non-salaried volunteers. GHEF’s volunteer staff have been selected based on their commitment to the organization’s basic ideals, their scientific and medical areas of expertise and due to their network of contacts in the academic and commercial areas of medicine, and their knowledge of healthcare in developing countries.
