Reflections from an American Maternal/Child Nurse and New Volunteer
I was honored to spend almost 40 years as a Labor and Delivery nurse, OB Educator and hospital Birthing Center Director. I started my career and had my own two children in the mid 1970’s. This is at the time of the feminist movement when, among other things, women were [...]
Impact Global Health Alliance Global Community-Based, Impact-Oriented Methodology is Helping Local Communities Take Ownership of Their Ongoing Health and Well-Being
Since 1983, Impact Global Health Alliance Global has partnered with communities to save the lives of women and children. These communities have some of the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world. They are located in remote, almost forgotten areas where preventable diseases like malnutrition, pneumonia, and childbirth [...]
National Nonprofit Day: A day to recognize those making a difference and creating change
August 17 is National Nonprofit Day (NND), a day to recognize the goals and positive impacts nonprofits have on communities and the world. Somewhere, A trained midwife delivers a baby in the dark, without electricity in an underserved community. At the same time, a $5 donation provides life-saving medical care for [...]
Thousands of Spanish-Speaking Families Supported During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Carolinas: A Milestone Worth Celebrating
Impact Global Health Alliance Global's ability to effectively and sustainably impact the health and well-being of communities abroad and here in the United States is connected directly to its unique Community-Based Impact-Oriented Methodology (CBIO). For Impact Global Health Alliance Global, developing relationships with in-country partners and the local communities to [...]
Take Action: 3 ways you can make a difference
There are a dozen reasons why getting involved in your community is important, especially during these trying times, but we'll sum it up to this: it’s good for you and it’s even better for those around you! And since most people agree but have no idea where to start, here [...]
Impact Global Health Alliance Global Leads Global Community Health Professionals in the Creation of a COVID-19 Home-Based Care Guide for Low and Middle-Income Countries
Since December 2013, Barbara Muffoletto has been one of Impact Global Health Alliance Global’s Program Managers. Since then, she has contributed to the organization’s success and impact in significant ways. More recently, as the Co-chair of the CORE Group, she has led a team of global community health professionals to develop a set of guidelines [...]
Interns Raise the Bar in Leading and Creating a Better Future Now
The future is not happening in a few years, months, weeks, or days. The future is happening now. A group of interns from the Enloe Medical BioScience Academy has been witnessing and contributing to the paramount impact that Impact Global Health Alliance Global has on the health and well-being of communities [...]
June newsletter + updates
As we entered the month of June, we continued to navigate through the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic abroad and domestically. We've seen great success with our new coronavirus trainings in both Kenya and Guatemala and additional milestones. In the states, we have reached over 7,000 families through our phone [...]
Ventanilla de Salud: Hope and Healing for the Most Vulnerable in North Carolina
Before Morgan Clark started working at Duke University Hospital, she worked for Impact Global Health Alliance Global. She experienced what it is like to live, and in many instances survive, in a remote, rural village in the northern mountains of Guatemala. There, she helped provide preventative healthcare to mothers and [...]
Community Health Facilitators: The Heart of a Community’s Journey to Health and Hope
Last year, Doña Catarina, a community health worker in Calhuitz, Guatemala, sat down with a group of volunteers to share her experience working with Impact Global Health Alliance. For the past five years, Doña Cata (as she is affectionately called) has worked as a Community Facilitator, which is a key [...]
Education: One of the Most Effective Ways to Reduce Unnecessary Deaths
One of the fundamental aspects of our work is bringing health services to the people when and where they needed most. One question we often get is “Wouldn’t it be easier to build a health center and have everyone come to the center for services?” Although health centers serve an [...]
Our work to prevent COVID here in the U.S.
Since March 17, 2020 - Raleigh-based nonprofit Impact Global Health Alliance Global has enlisted a small army of hundreds of volunteers who are calling 15,000 families in Spanish across NC and the region. These calls are using CDC-provided information on how to detect symptoms, stay safe/prevent the spread, and what [...]
Meet Rebecca
Meet Rebecca Rubinstein – thanks to her efforts, and the efforts of 35 other The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill volunteers, Impact Global Health Alliance is partnering with the Consulado General de Guatemala en Raleigh to provide COVID-19 education and response to families in unforgotten communities. During college, [...]
