HealthBridge Global Blog

The Susan G. Koman Foundation recently came under attack for dropping funding to Planned Parenthood.  They then came under attack for reversing that decision.  They simply exposed what some of us knew already – it’s about the money – not the cure.  Let’s get a few things straight. 1) they are not necessarily interested in eradicating breast [...]

There’s a story in Romanian culture about a little bug that is living in the center of a small vegetable we are not familiar with in the US called gulie.  It’s like a cabbage, but that’s not important.  The important thing is that from inside of the cabbage, the bug begins to develop his all [...]

A simple, short, and helpful book to help guide and inspire boards who have little experience, little motivation, or both with regards to ensuring the success of the mission and the organization they are  apart of.

  “I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not…we forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.” Joan Didion

“To map out a course of action and follow it to the end requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

During his life and experiences as a medical missionary doctor and pioneer in Bangladesh Dr. Viggo Olsen outlined key principles for effective medical ministry.  They are so simply yet groundbreaking and revolutionary that I thought I should share them, if for no other reason, to firmly embed them in my own mind.  The tragedy is that for [...]