About MEDICC
Founded in 1997, MEDICC (Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba) is a
nonprofit organization based in Oakland, California that fosters US-Cuba health
collaboration aimed at extending the right to healthy lives for all.
MEDICC facilitates mutual learning opportunities in several ways: its documentary film ¡Salud!; the open-access, MEDLINE-indexed English-language journal, MEDICC Review, publishing research by Cuban and other scholars from the Global South; insightful Gateways trips to Cuba for innovative US healthcare executives, researchers, policymakers, clinicians, educators, graduate students and health equity leaders; Community Partnerships for Health Equity, a national network of US community leaders who are pioneering new initiatives for better health, thanks to their MEDICC-organized experiences in Cuba; and by serving as an institutional bridge-builder between US, Cuban and global health institutions and organizations. MEDICC also assists US students and graduates of Havana’s Latin American School of Medicine to return home to practice in provider-shortage areas, and supports US policies that facilitate greater health cooperation with Cuba for the benefit of people in both countries.
Our Vision
Health for All is Possible
Our Mission
MEDICC promotes US-Cuba health collaboration and highlights Cuba’s public health approaches to inform the quest for health equity and universal health worldwide.
The First 20 Years: MEDICC’s Top 10 Achievements
Where to Train the World’s Doctors? Cuba.
MEDICC Board Chair Gail Reed on TEDMED.
Dr. Pastor Castell-Florit Serrate, Co-chair of MEDICC’s Academic Council accepts PAHO’s Award for outstanding leadership in Health Administration in the Americas.