Building Cross-Cultural Community Among Future Medical Professionals

Hello there! My name is Allison Nguyen and I am one of the three global health fellows for…

Connecting Health, Education, and Social Change

Hello! My name is Joriene Mercado and I’m entering my fourth and final year at Stanford University. I’m…

Mining for Meaning

I am Neil Chang, an upcoming first year student at National Yang Ming University in Taiwan. “Between my…

VIA Concludes a Busy Summer in Silicon Valley and Asia

September concludes an exciting season of summer programs with VIA. In both the US and Asia, we welcomed new staff,…

MED 2016 Participants

Explorations in Health Care with MED

This summer, VIA proudly hosted 40 of Asia’s best and brightest medical students at Stanford University on our…

EHC Shadowing Reflections: Asian Health Services (AHS)

Hiroki Sakurada My name is Hiroki Sakurada, third-year student, Kyoto University Medical School. I visited AHS(Asian Health Services)…

EHC Shadowing Reflections: Stanford Hospital

Seiya Saito Hi, this is Seiya Saito. Our group shadowed and visited to the Emergency Department at the…

EHC Shadowing Reflection: UCSF

Takahiro Akimoto Hello! My name is Takahiro. This is my first article. So nice to meet you! It…

Day 5: Panel Discussion with Japanese Doctors & Researchers

Hello, my name is Mariko Watanabe. I’m second year students of Kyoto university. Today I’d like to write…

EHC Day 3: Global Medicine, LGBTQ+ Health Care, 1 Dollar Challenge

Introduction to Global Medicine I am Miho Irie, 4th year student from Tokyo women’s medical university, and this…