WiRED International’s board and volunteers are deeply saddened by the death of Philip Pumerantz, Ph.D., on December 26, 2017. Dr. Pumerantz, who served on WiRED’s Honorary Board of Directors, was a leader in health education. He was the founding president and president emeritus of the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific (COMP) and Western University of Health Sciences (WesternU) in Pomona, California.

In the past few years, cholera outbreaks have occurred in Haiti and Yemen and now in Zambia. Why does a disease that has been treated and controlled successfully since the 1800s continue to plague populations around the world?

What is good parenting? There is more than one “right” way to parent, but keeping your child healthy and safe is at the top of the list.

The holiday season is over, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urges us to follow these tips to get the New Year off to a healthy start. WiRED International suggests taking steps now to keep yourself and your loved ones active and healthy in the New Year.

The WiRED International team celebrated its 20th anniversary this year and chalked up a number of accomplishments it made to advance the life-saving health education — which it provides at no charge to people in underserved communities around the world.

As 2017 comes to a close, we ask that you consider a donation to WiRED International as part of your year-end philanthropy. Because we are volunteer-driven, approximately 95% of your donation will go directly to our programs. We pledge to use your money wisely, honestly and efficiently as we go forward with our work in low-resource regions of the world.

WiRED International is excited to announce the release of its 20th anniversary video. Watch as WiRED’s mission and history come to life in this six-minute video made possible through the efforts of WiRED board member Virgil Scudder.

All parents-to-be want to have a healthy child. A healthy baby is the result of a process that begins long before a woman becomes pregnant. WiRED’s “Introduction to Before Pregnancy” Module explains what women can do to make sure pregnancies are planned and healthy — although the course also covers unexpected pregnancy.

The Armenian countryside is breathtakingly beautiful. The lush, green fields in the mountainous northeast are deeply creased and laced with rutted paths etched by livestock over the centuries. The land in Armenia, and its history, stretching back to the Bronze Age, are tightly bound. When visiting here, it’s tempting to visualize shepherds during ancient times, tending sheep on the sides of these hills.

All of us at WiRED International would like to wish happy holidays to the many people who have become part of our family since we began our work 20 years ago: doctors and nurses, community health workers, and people in low-resource areas who have used our training materials to improve their knowledge of medicine and community health.