Global Health

As a family medicine resident in our program, you’ll have global opportunities to care for socially disadvantaged populations.

Through several immersive elective experiences, you’ll develop skills to deliver healthcare in resource-limited settings. In addition to growing your clinical knowledge, you’ll walk away with an enhanced sense of idealism, enthusiasm, and interest in cross-cultural care that lasts well beyond training.

You may participate in global health electives for up to two months if you meet residency time and patient care requirements.

Global Health Partners

Broadleaf Health & Education Alliance

Broadleaf exists to empower vibrant communities through health and education so that unrealized human potential can thrive. Broadleaf accomplishes this by delivering comprehensive school health and child mental healthcare to rural primary schools in the Eastern Himalayas.

Residents have traveled to India to experience first-hand the healthcare system and implement public health programs. Locally, residents can gain experience in non-profit leadership and global health research under the mentorship of a faculty member.

Project C.U.R.E.

Project C.U.R.E. is the largest provider of donated medical supplies and equipment to developing countries around the world. Residents have the opportunity to travel on 1-2 week multi-disciplinary medical missions, train community health workers in management of diarrheal illness, and provide volunteer support at their Denver-based global headquarters

DB Peru

DB Peru brings primary and emergency healthcare to villages along the Napo River in the Peruvian Amazon jungle. Prior residents have trained community health workers, practiced clinical medicine, and conducted community outreach.

Global Health Faculty

Global Health Faculty

Michael Matergia, MD

For the past decade, Mike has been working to bring quality healthcare to children in the rural Eastern Himalayas. Currently, he is focused on scaling a lay fieldworker-led school health program and conducting a feasibility study of a child mental health intervention. Mike travels frequently to India and looks forward to having residents join on future trips.

Huy Ly, MD

Huy has worked with various organizations since medical school in countries that include Guatemala, Bolivia, Peru, Cameroon, Cambodia, and Myanmar. He continues to be involved with Global Refuge International, a small, Colorado-based organization that focuses on providing medical aid and medic training to internally displaced people groups around the world. In 2015, he went with Saint Joseph's residents to the Napo River Valley and worked with a team that trained local health workers and administered women's health surveys. Huy enjoys encouraging and helping residents to plan and execute their international rotations.

Katie Seitz, MD

Katie does medical mission trips with organizations that focus on sustainable interventions and that meet the needs identified by local communities. Since 2007, she has worked and traveled with DB Peru. With DB Peru, Katie has delivered medical care to remote villages only accessible by boat along the Napo River. She has also provided vital education to local promotores and parteras.

Michael DaRosa, DO

Mike decided to become a physician after the first of many medical trips to Nicaragua. Since then he has returned to Nicaragua multiple times to provide specialized musculoskeletal care to the hardworking and loving people of Ometepe Island. Residents are invited to join this annual trip where they have the opportunity work with local Nicaraguan physicians, practice medical Spanish, and teach and mentor the pre-health students.