Health Volunteers Overseas

Together with Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO), a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving global health through education, ASH brings invaluable consultation and training to hospitals in low-and middle-income countries. Training provided by ASH members includes rounds in the clinics, bedside consultations, classroom lectures to on-site staff and trainees, training in laboratories, and more. The objective of the program is to develop sustainable improvement in the management of hematology patients at these institutions and to, ultimately, enhance patient care.

Each program site has an ASH member program director and on-site coordinators who oversee volunteer visits at the institutions and provide feedback on the institutions' evolving needs and goals. ASH and HVO consultants also work with on-site hematologists, laboratory scientists, blood bankers, faculty, administrators, and others to formulate mid- and long-term goals for each site and to create profiles for volunteer hematologists who can help fulfill these needs.

ASH and HVO are looking for pediatric and adult hematology/oncology clinicians, laboratory scientists, and academicians for both in-person and virtual volunteer opportunities. In-person assignments may range from two to four weeks.