Tye Humphrey, a 2009 GHS graduate, joined Mayo Clinic physician John Bachman on a trip to Honduras this summer to provide health care to the poor. Tye is the daughter of Stanley and Janet Humphrey. Her major is exercise science.
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Tye, along with students from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. — Bayard Carlson, Elizabeth Wanous, and Ryan Franz — worked side-by-side with a group of medical students from Mayo to set up a mobile clinic in a different rural Honduran village each day for a week.
The trip was organized through Global Brigades.
Global Brigades is the world’s largest student-led global health and sustainable development organization. Since 2004, Global Brigades has mobilized thousands of university students and professionals through nine skill-based service programs to improve quality of life in under-resourced communities. A brigade typically consists of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, and dentists assisted by undergraduate students studying medicine, dentistry, international relations or Spanish.
Tye’s group of students met with patients and developed diagnoses and treatment plans, which were reviewed by a physician. When they weren’t running a clinic station the students held public health workshops.
More than half the population of Honduras lives in poverty, with black and indigenous populations suffering from marked economic and educational inequality and inequality in access to services.