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Medical Teams International: Connecting the Local to the Global in a time of Crisis

July 29, 2020 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Join us for a discussion with the Tigard-based humanitarian relief agency Medical Teams International– an organization known internationally and locally for their dedication to refugee health caredisaster relief, and mobile dental programs. Threading connections between care for the world and the need for resources in our own background, Betsy Baldwin (Director of the Humanitarian Response Team), Cindy Breilh (Executive Director of U.S. Programs), and Joe DiCarlo (Global Ambassador and member of WorldOregon’s Board of Advisors), share how Medical Teams International has pivoted with the rise of COVID-19 to address innovative approaches to rural public health in Oregon and Washington and across the globe in places like Bangladesh and Guatemala, among other locales.