Welcome to the Wharton Healthcare International Volunteer Project (WHIVP)

Wharton Healthcare International Volunteer Project (WHIVP)

WHIVP is designed to give healthcare management students the opportunity to participate in service projects for healthcare systems with limited resources and severe health problems, such as HIV.

The projects are student run and led, and seek to give participants exposure to healthcare challenges in the developing world as well as the opportunity to work closely with organizations on the ground to develop viable strategies to improve their organizations. WHIVP’s trips are student organized, student run, and student led. Projects typically take place during winter break (late December to early January) and summer break (end of August) but depend on the individual project details.

Each year, small groups of students volunteer for two to three week consulting engagements worldwide. In the past, students have worked with Wharton Healthcare alumni in South Africa with the City of Cape Town Health System. In the winter of 2004, a team traveled to India to create an HIV epidemiologic profile and improve HIV screening and data collection for the Andhra Pradesh State AIDS Control Society. In the summer of 2005, a team spent several weeks working with an HIV and family health clinic in Gaborone, Botswana to provide a financial and operational assessment of the clinic.

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