Virtue Foundation

At Virtue Foundation, we believe that data can be a powerful force for good. That is why we launched the Virtue Foundation Actionable Data Initiative, a forward-thinking technology initiative that seeks to create a more efficient marketplace for the delivery of healthcare in under-served regions of the world. Born from years of on-the-ground medical missions, the project seeks to use predictive analytics and machine learning algorithms to analyze geospatial data, infrastructure, risk factors, and other environmental conditions to better predict need and match available resources.

The latest milestone of our Actionable Data Initiative is the release of Insights in Global Health: A Compendium of Health Facilities and Nonprofits. This publication by Taylor & Francis is a first-of-its-kind reference that includes detailed nonprofit and healthcare facility information for 24 low-income countries.

We invite you to explore Insights in Global Health and its integrated tools, which provide critical data to inform and encourage impactful interventions and healthcare delivery to take place around the world.

Comment below and share your own insights in global health!

https://insightsinglobalhealth.com/

We are pleased to announce the latest milestone of our Actionable Data Initiative: the publication by Taylor & Francis of Insights in Global Health: A Compendium of Health Facilities and Nonprofits.

Presented in an easily accessible format and organized in 24 country chapters, Insights allows stakeholders to better identify where healthcare services are available and where additional resources are needed. Each of the chapters presents a brief country overview, a map depicting the locations of healthcare facilities, and a curated list of nonprofit organizations and healthcare facilities. QR codes associated with each listing link back to a dedicated web platform, providing access to further information about the organizations as well as the ability to interact with the data in a customizable manner.

We hope Insights in Global Health will provide critical data to inform and encourage impactful interventions and healthcare delivery to take place around the world. We invite you to explore our new publication and share your own insights in global health!

https://insightsinglobalhealth.com/

Giving Tuesday and the spirit of generosity in the year 2020 takes on a whole new meaning as the world faces a global pandemic and unprecedented challenges. The importance of supporting those most in need is more important than ever, and the world has been witness to incredible examples of generosity, human spirit, resilience, and community.

At Virtue Foundation, we continue to focus on critical healthcare initiatives around the world, including our longstanding work in Mongolia and Ghana. In addition, through our Actionable Data Initiative, we are using big data to better connect need and healthcare resources during this critical time. Stay tuned as we begin to share the exciting news of innovative and groundbreaking developments to the Virtue Foundation Actionable Data Initiative!

Want to give back on this Giving Tuesday? Continue supporting Virtue Foundation and the work we do by visiting our website!

In honor of , Dr. Joan LaRovere joined the Seneca Women Podcast Network and Iheartradio on their new show “Here’s Something Good”. Here’s Something Good is a short daily podcast that offers inspiring stories, helpful tips and shared experiences to motivate and inspire you every day.

On this episode, Dr. LaRovere discusses how big data can provide hope in the battle against COVID-19. As cofounder and Vice President of Virtue Foundation, she discusses the ways in which the Foundation has been providing on-the-ground assistance during this time of crisis using big data to drive interventions. Listen to the podcast to hear what else Virtue Foundation has been doing to help during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how you can help too!

Listen here: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-heres-something-good-61565062/episode/how-data-can-provide-hope-in-62050317/


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Stay warm this evening and join our friends, The Okoa Project, at Brooklyn Brewery to help raise funds for the launch of a new batch of ambulances in Northern Ghana in February 2020. Come learn about what this amazing organization is doing to help rural, underserved communities access health services! 🙌

Give the gift of health this Giving Tuesday with Virtue Foundation! Whether through direct patient care in remote regions of countries such as Mongolia or Ghana or our forward-thinking technology platform that makes those most in need visible and matches healthcare resource to that need, your donations will be efficiently utilized to maximize return for those most needing care.

This year, we are especially excited to have celebrated ten years of surgical missions to Mongolia with over 10,000 patients served over the last decade. We are also excited to have started our strategic partnership with Dun & Bradstreet that integrates D&B data and analytics with Virtue Foundation’s Data Mapping Initiative.

Virtue Foundation Data Mapping Initiative The Virtue Foundation Data Mapping Initiative is a forward-thinking technology platform that seeks to create a more efficient marketplace for the delivery of healthcare…

Teaching and skills transfer to local staff is a key feature of all Virtue Foundation Missions. One of the VF volunteer surgeons presented to the midwives and maternity ward nurses of Wa Regional Hospital on the topic of vacuum assisted delivery. A hands-on training followed the lecture, wherein the staff was able to practice the skills Dr. Nouri shared.

Virtue Foundation has arrived in Ghana for its annual Surgical and Medical Mission. For the next week, a volunteer team of doctors and medical professionals will be working and teaching in various clinical site throughout the country.

Our first stop on the 2018 Virtue Foundation Mission to Ghana is Wa Regional Hospital, Upper West Region. As the capital of the region and also the main referring facility in the area, our volunteers have the opportunity to assist on complex surgeries and teach skills to staff that serve patients in Wa and well beyond. The team was welcomed with open arms by administrative heads of the hospital and took no time getting into the operating room. Several complex cases were completed on the first day that lasted well into the night!

Teaching and sustainable skills transfer is a large portion of the work Virtue Foundation does in Mongolia. Many local staff attended a lecture on Ocular Oncology that was given at First Central Hospital this past week.

As the week carries on, so does the work in our clinical locations, including Khovd, Western Mongolia. Virtue Foundation currently has a large team of specialists serving patients at the Western Regional Diagnostic and Treatment Center. The VF volunteers in Khovd are screening and operating a wide variety of ophthalmological conditions.

This year, the Virtue Foundation Surgical and Teaching Mission brought 28 volunteers to Mongolia. The members of our team work across seven clinical locations, in three different provinces. Our VF Head and Neck specialists for example, work primarily with the National Cancer Center of Mongolia.