Best regards, Jean Furuyama, DDS
President, Japanese Medical Society of America

Independent Volunteer Opportunities

Listed below are some relief organizations currently active in Haiti. Physicians, nurses and employees who are trained in disaster relief and wish to register with these or other aid organizations should discuss requests for time off with their supervisors. For more details regarding employee-initiated leaves for disaster service, please see section 5.2 of the Leave for Disaster Service policy.

Partners In Health

Memo: 1/13: If you are a health professional interested in volunteering, please send an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with information on your credentials, language capabilities (Haitian Creole or French desired), availability, and contact information. In particular, we need surgeons (especially trauma/orthopedic surgeons), ER doctors and nurses, and full surgical teams (including anesthesiologists, scrub and post-op nurses, and nurse anesthetists).

Relief International (RI) [ri.org]

RI is a humanitarian organization that meets the immediate needs of victims of natural disasters with provisions of food rations, clean water, non-food items, and medical services. RI has dispatched emergency response teams to Haiti to provide supplies and recovery services.

MedShare[medshare.org]

MedShare recovers and redistributes surpluses of medical supplies and equipment to those in need.The organization is actively raising money to send thousands of vitally needed medical supplies to Haiti to treat injured victims.

Operation USA[opusa.org]

Operation USA is an international relief agency that helps communities overcome the effects of disasters by providing privately funded aid. It is sending medical aid to Haiti in response to the earthquake.

Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) [doctorswithoutborders.org]

MSF is an international medical and humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by natural and man-made disasters. MSF is setting up an inflatable field hospital in Haiti to provide critical medical care to earthquake victims.

Up to date information about this disaster

Relief Web

http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc104?OpenForm&rc=2&cc=hti

Relief International

http://ri.org/

World Health Organization

http://www.who.int/hac/crises/hti/en/index.html

CDC Health Recommendations for Relief Workers Responding to Disasters

http://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/content/relief-workers.aspx

Doctors Without Borders – Medecins Sans Frontieres

http://www.msf.org