Where you live should not decide if you live.

WiRED International's mission is to provide medical and healthcare information, education and communications in developing and war-affected regions. We can connect doctors to doctors virtually anywhere. We also link grassroots communities directly to essential health information. WiRED’s information centers are locally run and become a central part of the communities they serve. Learn More >

Click here to watch an introductory video about the International Telemedicine Network (ITN). Coordinated by WiRED International, it is a Web site dedicated to medical education for medical professionals.

Celebrating WiRED's 10th Anniversary

WiRED’s New CHIC Program Impacts Population Health
in Kenya

No medication or medical device can do as much to promote good health in remote regions as a population’s knowledge of good health practices. For the people of Kisumu, Kenya, WiRED’s Community Health Information Centers (CHICs) provide the only source of basic health information, especially HIV/AIDS prevention. In July WiRED Director Gary Selnow, Ph.D., traveled to Kenya to revitalize the CHIC program by using technology upgraded since the start of the program nearly nine years ago.

WiRED’s objective during this trip was to update the medical information and broaden the reach of the program to grassroots communities in this region near Lake Victoria and outfit the two CHICs in the Kisumu neighborhoods of Obunga and Pandipieri (watch a brief video of Obunga). Read more >

Volunteers Who Contribute

Michael Constantine

Actor Michael Constantine has starred in eminent roles throughout his career and proved himself to be a jack of all trades, but has never forgotten about others in the world. From his rise to fame on Broadway and television to his epic role in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” he has truly done it all. More recently, he appeared in WiRED International’s video to help spread awareness for the aid of developing and war-affected regions.

 

Constantine is best known today for his role as Gus Portokalos, the Windex-spraying Greek patriarch in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” in 2002. His character offered comedic relief at times while also shedding light on the immense pride and love within his large Greek family. Read more >

 

“Perfection of means and confusion of ends seems to characterize our age.”

—Albert Einstein

 

Recipient of the UC Berkeley School of Public Health 2009 Organizational Public Health Hero Award. Read more > Click here to watch the award ceremony video.