MSF

Organizers

Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an independent international medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, or exclusion from health care in nearly 70 countries.

 

 

Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) is a patient needs-driven, non-profit research and development (R&D) organization developing new treatments for the world’s most neglected diseases: sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis), Chagas disease, leishmaniasis (kala azar), filarial parasitic-worm diseases, and pediatric HIV/AIDS.

 

 

Mount Sinai Global Health is a new institution-wide interdisciplinary program at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine. We are working to improve the health of people around the world by building global partnerships in research, education, and patient care – in turn creating a forum for collaboration among the school’s students, physicians, scientists, and trainees interested and involved in global health.