Our President and Co-Founder Dr. Joseph Salim was invited to present at the U.S. State Department’s “Global Initiative – Women in Action” International Visitor Leadership Program at the United Nations in New York.
On March 5, 2013, the Auxiliary Board and its Young Women’s Division recognized Virtue’s Director of International Programming and Global Health Dr. Ebby Elahi for his leading role in improving global health.
On December 6, 2012, Vice President and Co-Founder Dr. Joan LaRovere spoke at the Menopause, Andropause and Anti-Aging Congress in Vienna, Austria. Her talk, “Matching Resource with Need: Data Mapping to Understand Maternal Mortality and Women’s Health,” centered on our collaborative work with the University of Vienna Medical Center in Tumu, Ghana.
As part of our Data Mapping for Sustainable Development, we continue to partner with Women in the World to map organizations working on women’s issues globally. This year, we are expanding to include maps on the state of women in the world and comparative maps on gender-based violence trends, including state responses to combat the…
Women News Network recently posted an article on the issue of acid violence and other forms of violence against women in Bangladesh. In it, the author cites to the Virtue Foundation and partners’ report, Combating Acid Violence in Bangladesh, India and Cambodia. Read the article: http://womennewsnetwork.net/2012/07/11/bangladesh-advocacy-acid-crime/
Get on the Map! is an innovative new interactive mapping initiative that lets non-profits, governments, corporations and individuals access, analyze and visualize rich stores of data to better design their interventions. It aims to centralize national, district-level and local data, as well as Virtue Foundation indices in its core competences of health, education, empowerment and justice.
Virtue Foundation’s Digital Storytelling Initiative helps students make a difference in their Hunts Point, N.Y. communities. The Hunts Point Alliance for Children collaborated with seventh and eighth graders at MS 424 and Saint Ignatius middle schools to complete the year-long Virtue Foundation Digital Storytelling Initiative that examines how students can impact their communities. During the…
Virtue Foundation sponsors team of 24 medical professionals and obtains more than $900,000.00 USD worth of equipment and supplies to implement fourth surgical teaching mission in Ulaanbaatar and Khovd, Mongolia. In May 2012, a team of 24 volunteer surgeons, residents, nurses, medical students and support staff joined Virtue Foundation’s Director of International Programming and Global…
In May 2012, Vice President and Co-Founder Dr. Joan LaRovere visited China as part of the official delegation for the third People-to-People Exchange.
Virtue Foundation volunteer obstetricians/gynecologists visit Tumu Hospital to examine patients and plan long-term collaboration for women’s health in northern Ghana. As part of the Virtue Foundation Institute for Innovation and Philanthropy in Ghana’s Healthcare Initiative, Professor Egarter and Dr. Nouri, specialists from the Department of Gynecological Endocrinology and Reproductive Medicine at the University Hospital, Vienna,…