Introducing the Exploring Health Care (EHC) Program Special Theme: Natural Disasters & Health Care

The hurricanes that struck Houston, Texas in late August and the Florida Keys and Puerto Rico in September.…

Enlightened Aging: Interview with Dr. Eric Larson

Dr. Eric Larson joined VIA’s volunteer program in Hong Kong in 1968. This international service experience was the…

Meet the Spring 2018 Social Innovation Team!

This coming spring we have an amazing team of social innovation coordinators. Learn more about these energetic innovators who…

Participating in Global Leadership Virtually

One of this summer’s GLE participants, David, was unable to travel to attend the program in person in Thailand,…

Enlight Scholarship for Indonesia Summer Immersion Internship

About the Enlight Scholarship The Enlight Scholarship can be applied to the 2018 Indonesia Summer Internship in Indonesia.…

Understanding Challenges of the LGBTQ+ Community

We learned clinical English, patient privacy, USMLE, design thinking, and so on. Especially, LGBTQ+ health issues thinking left…

Cross-Cultural Reflections on LGBTQ+ Healthcare

My name is Xinhui Liu from Shanxi Medical University in China. This is the first time for me…

Comprehensive Learning About LGBTQ+ Community

The LGBTQ+ Movement is Not Just About Sexuality Our first week of MED Program at Stanford is over.…

First Impressions of MED, from the Assistant Director

Hello! My name is Tamara Solorzano and I am the Assistant Program Director for the VIA MED program.…

Insights from Week 1 of MED 2017

Hello everyone, my name is Keita Morikawa. I’m a fourth-year medical student from the University of Tokyo. It’s…