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Highlights
2022 sees the return of Virtue Foundation to Mongolia
After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the annual Virtue Foundation Surgical and Teaching Mission to Mongolia resumed in May of 2022.Read More
Recently Published World Compendium of Healthcare Facilities and Nonprofit Organizations
Introducing World Compendium, the most comprehensive index of critical information on healthcare facilities and nonprofits in 72 low and lower-middle-income countries. Edited by Dr. Ebby Elahi and published by Taylor & Francis, the compendium allows stakeholders to better identify where healthcare services are available and where additional resources are needed.Read More
VF donates 20,000 doses of antibiotics to Ghana
Antibiotics are a valuable tool against serious infections, including pneumonia. Virtue Foundation has donated 20,000 doses of IV amoxicillin/clavulanic acid (known as taromentin in Austria and augmentin in the U.S.) to the Wa Regional Hospital in the Upper West Region of Ghana. Read More
Redefining Philanthropy: Virtue Foundation, Horasis and the UN
The aims and methods of philanthropy have changed considerably over the years, and tech has played a huge role in that transformation. At the October 2020 Horasis Extraordinary Meeting, Virtue Foundation co-founder Dr. Joan LaRovere told how VF’s AI-driven Data Mapping Initiative can serve as an example to other nonprofits as they seek to match resources and need. Horasis, convened with the UN, is the world's foremost gathering of business leaders who interact with key government officials and eminent thought leaders.Read More
Virtue Foundation at the DataRobot AI Conference
Virtue Foundation’s groundbreaking Data Mapping Initiative is a first-of-its-kind mapping-and- matching global health platform—and it wouldn’t have been possible without the help of AI tech company DataRobot and its AI for Good program. VF co-founder Dr. Joan LaRovere spoke at DataRobot’s AI Experience World virtual Conference in May 2021.Read More
Solving a maternal health transportation crisis: motorcycle ambulances
In rural Ghana, expectant mothers have had a big obstacle to a safe delivery: Lack of transportation to a healthcare facility. But Virtue Foundation has partnered with Moving Health, a nonprofit launched by MIT students, to solve that problem. Together they are producing inexpensive, sustainable transportation in the form of a trailer that can be attached to the back of any motorcycle. Read More
Insights in Global Health: A Compendium of Healthcare Facilities and Nonprofits
This book is a comprehensive index of critical information on healthcare facilities and nonprofits in 24 of the world’s lowest income countries. The information is presented in an easily accessible format and organized in 24 country chapters; it allows users to better identify where healthcare services are available and where additional resources are needed.Read More
Virtue Foundation Featured in MIT Technology Review
MIT researchers have always been drawn to urgent, life-or-death problems. The pandemic is keeping them busy. Read More
Virtue Foundation’s Response to COVID-19
Virtue Foundation is working to assist with immediate relief in the U.S., Mongolia, and Ghana. Also, through its Data Mapping Initiative, the Foundation is making available critical information on healthcare facilities and NGOs in low income counties providing a pathway to assistance.Read MoreDownloads
Featured Videos
For his work in advancing clinical and global medicine, including his work with Virtue Foundation, Dr. Ebby Elahi has been awarded the prestigious Jacobi Medallion from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.
Dun & Bradstreet and Virtue Foundation partner to support the Data Mapping Initiative, a forward-thinking technology platform that seeks to create a more efficient marketplace for the delivery of healthcare in under-served regions of the world.
Virtue Foundation returned to Mongolia for its 10th Annual Surgical and Teaching Mission to Mongolia, serving more than 10,0000 patients over the past 10 years.
Tina Brown, former Editor-in-Chief of Newsweek & The Daily Beast, discusses Virtue Foundation's work in the areas of Acid Violence and Women Empowerment.
Partnering with actress Anne Hathaway, the Foundation launched the "Child Soldiers Youth Project," raising awareness of child soldiers among high school students in the U.S. and providing them with the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of these child soldiers.
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