Didier Lacaze with Rosa Canalos (Kichwa) founded the Sacha Warmi Center—an educational resource that will serve many people—located on the outskirts of the Amazonian Rainforest in the Pastaza region of Ecuador. It is part of PROMETRA (Promoción de la Medicina Tradicional Amazónica), a local Ecuadorian initiative created in 2005 by Didier and Rosa who was born in the village of Canelos and is Didier's wife.

Didier was interviewed by videographer Barry Heidt of Sustainability Action Media (SAM) as part of an online video campaign to increase the Indigenous Voices of Sustainability, co-sponsored by EarthSayers.tv, and focusing on wisdom keepers of Ecuador. Editing support by Norman Austin.

Modernizing Medicare and Medicaid: How to Upgrade America's Health Care by Donal Berwick who in this December 2010 speech before the Commonwealth Club speaks from the perspective of his role as Administrator, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This is his fifth month holding this postion.

TED takes a look at health and medicine with a conference each year. The 2013 TEDMed conference is April 16-19 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Their YouTube channel features nearly 200 videos from previous conferences.

Accepting the 2007 TED Prize, Bill Clinton asks for help in bringing health care to Rwanda -- and the rest of the world. Foundation Website for more information.

Melinda Gates makes a strong argument for contraception as an international health issue.  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation believes all people deserve the chance to lead healthy, productive lives. The videos on this page relate to the foundation's work in global health, global development, and U.S. education. TEDx program. Visit the Foundation's YouTube channel on Global Health Stories.

Community partnerships challenge each of us to understand our own relationships and experience, to come to grips with your own day to day living - a comparison action that you have to take part in.  Mr. Patton was addressing the NW Environmental Health Conference sponsored by Portland State University, February, 2012 as a panelist on A Case Study of University-Community Partnership in Portland, Oregon.  Special thanks to videographer Maegan Prentice of Eyeopening Video.

FedEx uses our core strengths to support ORBIS and their unique Flying Eye Hospital, a converted DC10. We help maintain the plane, provide volunteer pilots, donate millions of dollars of cash and in-kind transportation support, and team members provide volunteer support on the ground for programs around the world. Winner of Corporate Citizenship film festival.

Dr. Murray Coombs writes a letter about the future of children and his work providing HIV vaccines as part of Dow's local outreach.  Born to parents with HIV/AIDS and herself being infected, this 12-year-old girl is a catalyst in the notion that hope is always possible. Set in South Africa, this is the story of determination and perseverance, hope in the midst of adversity, one young girl's will to live and the role of Dow in helping to make her dreams come true.

Caterpillar invests with Mano a Mano to address the lack of access to health care in Bolivia, where the infant mortality rate is one of the highest in the world. By helping build roads, and thus growing access to medical clinics, the infant mortality rate is going down and many Bolivians are getting access to the health care they need.

Reflections from participants attending a conference at the Salzburg Global Seminar, entitled, Health and Healthcare (Series III), Innovating for Value in Health Care Delivery: Better Cross-Border Learning, Smarter Adaptation and Adoption.

Video filmed, edited, and produced, by Serena Marshall www.serenamarshall.com