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News & Stories

Global Health

Explore impact stories and learn how your support helps partners strengthen health systems and provide essential care for individuals and communities around the world.

World Malaria Day: Finishing the Fight We Began

Looking back at the challenges faced and surmounted in the UMC Imagine No Malaria health initiative spurs efforts to find new pathways to conquer the disease.
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First health center opens in rural Congo village

Osio is a village located more than 25 kilometers from Kisangani city. Each year for many years, the population of this village might travel thousands of kilometers to receive medical care.

United Methodists react to Ebola death in Goma

United Methodist leaders added their voices to the World Health Organization’s warning that with the spread of Ebola to Goma, the outbreak is a public health emergency of international concern.

The United Methodist Church response to Ebola in East Congo

Global Ministries responds to Ebola crisis in the East Congo, provides training and prevention methods during a time of great need.

Love and human dignity make an UMCOR WASH project in Mozambique

UMCOR helps a school in Mozambique receive new sanitation and water facilities, while its students gain life lessons in community organizing, project coordination and human dignity for all.

UMCOR supports the “Heal It” Project for Native American youth

An UMCOR partnership with Dream Warriors, a collective of Indigenous North American artists, reaches Native American youth with hope and compassion in the face of rising suicide rates across the country.

UMCOR supports an Alaskan Yu’pik community move with WASH projects

It takes a village, and a whole lot of partners, to move a village. An UMCOR grant provides WASH resources to help Newtok’s Yu’pik residents move to higher ground in Alaska.

Global mission grants rehabilitate health facilities worldwide

Since 2017, more than $8 million has been given and 46 facilities have been renovated, increasing the standard of care in rural communities.

Through training in the Philippines, Africans enhance C-section skills

United Methodist-related Mary Johnston Hospital staff share expertise with doctors, nurses from Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe.

Global Health unit Staff change

United Methodist Global Ministries has named Dr. Graciela Salvador-Davila as interim director of Global Health programs following the recent departure of Dr. Olusimbo Ige.

Contact Information

Have questions? Send us an inquiry and we’ll get back to you promptly. Please direct all media inquiries to Susan Clark, chief communications officer for Global Ministries and UMCOR.

General Inquiries

info@umcmission.org

Media Inquiries

Susan Clark, Chief Communications Officer
media@umcmission.org
800-862-4246