Hillman Fund

The Hillman Medical Education Fund

What We Do

The Hillman Medical Education Fund of Rose Charities was founded by Prof. Elizabeth Hillman to support health education and to foster future leaders in medicine, particularly in East Africa.

Programs funded in 2011 include

• Physiotherapy Training in Cambodia
• Afghanistan  Health Training of Rural Women
• Health Promoting Schools in Uganda through Brighter Smiles
• High School Peer Counseling Project in Uganda through HEADA
• Family medicine Conference at Makarere University Uganda

Programs funded in 2010 include:

• Continued support for the ETAT+ Training program in Kenya which provides skills to physicians in Emergency Triage and Treatment This is a course in the resuscitation of children who arrive in the emergency acute care at the hospital.
• Fostering Leaders in Medicine in Kenya. HMEF recognizes outstanding medical students in Kenya with Hillman Leadership Awards.
• Providing funds for the publication of the  PHC Manual for Health Workers in Africa. This manual is used by many African medical schools Don and Liz Hillman helped the East African colleagues write the first manual many years ago.
• Providing $11,000 of flood relief to Frontier Primary Healthcare in Pakistan. In the past we have worked with them to training of 30 Traditional Birth Attendants
• Provided funding to Brighter Smiles- a joint medical student program between UBC and Makerere University in Uganda that provides health education in rural schools in Uganda.

Message from the Brighter Smiles Students:

“We are eager to play a meaningful role in engaging more Ugandan and Canadian students in the unique educational opportunities possible through collaborative health promotion, the exchange of knowledge and ideas from effective international partnership, and collaborative research. We thank the Hillman Medical Education Fund for providing the MUK students and our group from UBC with the support to make this wonderful exchange of ideas and a sharing of knowledge possible, and hope that future students will also be able to benefit from this international partnership”

For more information visit: www.HMEF.blogspot.com

Donations

If you share the vision of Don and Liz Hillman please support the work of the Hillman Medical Education Fund with a donation. We are all volunteers so that your donation will be spent directly on the projects in Africa or Pakistan and not be wasted on overheads.