Current Projects of HealthServe Australia
HealthServe Australia is working in partnership with a number of overseas agencies to support the following international programs:
Climate and Creation Care
Climate change is having numerous health impacts, including increased rates of strokes, heart attacks, heat-related deaths and cancer.
GP Support and Training Network, Hainan-Australia
Health Worker Training, South Sudan
Healthy People, Healthy Environment - Indonesia
Healthy Planet Indonesia integrates dentistry, healthcare, and environmental conservation.
HeartStart Project
HeartStart is an Award of HSA for health-worker students in Australia to seed-fund travel to a developing country to immerse themselves in a safe resource-poor setting, develop relationships and gather information.
ICMDA Bursary Fund
Lights For Life: Disability Care in Kygryzstan
In Kyrgyzstan, more than one third of children born with cerebral palsy will develop a condition that causes irreversible brain damage and a lifelong movement disorder.
Living Wholeness - Mental Health in Asia
'Without mental health there can be no true physical health'.
Pacific Island Cervical Cancer Screening Initiative, Fiji
Planetary Health for Primary Care
With a focus on clinical practice and the reality of health professionals, the course is designed to introduce family doctors and other primary health care professionals and students, to the topic of Planetary Health; and to inspire and guide them to educate others or become advocates in various ways.
PRIME Medical Education Program
Tarime Water Project, Tanzania
Wedweil Project, South Sudan
Western Sydney Faith Based Community Network: Covid Response
A local meeting of western Sydney General Practitioners identified the need to engage the community, particularly disadvantaged and hard-to-reach communities through faith-based organisations.
Code of Conduct
HealthServe Australia is a signatory to the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) Code of Conduct reflecting HealthServe's compliance with industry standards of good practice, transparency and accountability. If you have any complaint or concern please click here and you will be redirected to our complaints form. A copy of our Complaints section in our Procedures Manual can be accessed by clicking here.
HealthServe Australia works in partnership with other international organisations, complementing their strengths with health resources. It has a special relationship with the largest group of Christian health professionals in Australia, the Christian Medical and Dental Fellowship of Australia (CMDFA) through which it was established. Many of the CMDFA members have worked for a number of years overseas in health work.
We acknowledge the traditional owners of the lands on which we work and live, and pay our respects to First Nations people, and their Elders past and present.
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