International Health Programs and Initiatives
Oceania
Stanford Papua New Guinea Medical Project
Kelly Murphy, MD; Surgery/Emergency Medicine
Location: Papua New Guinea
Time: summer
Participation: undergraduate students, graduate students, medical students, doctors.
Through the collaboration of Stanford University students and faculty with the indigenous people of the Sepik River Basin, the project hopes to establish a system of health care stations along the Sepik River. Volunteers live among the people, and stock and manage the clinics. While the project falls into the realm of preventative medicine, it provides interested students with a course curriculum at Stanford, focusing on tropical medicine and international healthcare. Such information is valuable in training of village health aids in Papua New Guinea to care for their own communities.
