About us
Global Dental Brigades (GDB) is a secular, international network of volunteers who provide preventative and urgent dental care to communities in developing countries. Our current emphasis is in Honduras with our sister organization, Global Medical Brigades, where in 2008 we served more than 40,000 patients in remote villages without access to health care otherwise.
Global Dental Brigades is a program of Global Brigades, Inc., the world's largest student-led international relief organization. As a secular, international nonprofit organization, our mission is to empower students and professionals to provide communities in developing nations with sustainable solutions that improve quality of life while respecting local culture. Since 2005, more than 4,000 volunteers from 100 of our university clubs have traveled to provide health care, microenterprise development, and clean water systems to more than 50,000 beneficiaries in Central America, Ghana, India and Vietnam. For more information, visit: www.globalbrigades.org.
“Be the change that you want to see in the world”
-Mahatma Gandhi
Leadership Team
Kate Leeming, Dental Brigades Program Director
Dr. Shital Chauhan, Chief Executive Officer, Health Brigades
Steve Atamian , Chief Empowerment Officer
Catherine Markman, Chief Executive Officer, Development Brigades
Quique Rodriquez, Exec Director, Honduras Operations
Pablo Garron, Director, Panama Operations
Kate Leeming, Dental Brigades
Diane Dunn, Law Brigades Director, Panama
Adriana Piñeiro, Business Brigades
Orion Haas, Water Brigades
Joy Bittner, Public Health Brigades
John Cunningham, Architecture Brigades
Merrilee Chapin, Microfinance Brigades
Michelle Menclewicz , USA Director, Student Advisory Counsel (Panama)
Chris Ha, USA Director, Student Advisory Counsel (Honduras)
Oison O'Connor, USA, Chief Transformation Officer
Kim Hanson, GB Travel Coordinator
Danielle Starry, GB Travel Advisor
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“Global Brigades” or “Brigades” refers to one or more of Global Brigades International, a Canada-based international not-for-profit corporation, and its respective subsidiaries and affiliates. Global Brigades International is devoted to improving quality of life for the world’s most under resourced communities. Its affiliates including “Global Brigades USA,” “Global Brigades Canada,” or “Global Brigades UK” do not provide or implement sustainable development services, but act in conjunction with Global Brigades International to empower their national volunteer base. As independent not-for-profit organizations, neither Global Brigades International nor any of its affiliates has any liability for each other’s acts or omissions. Each of “Global Brigades USA,” “Global Brigades Canada,” “ Global Brigades UK,” “ Asociacion Global Brigadas de Honduras,” Fundacion Brigadas Globales de Panama,” are separate and independent legal entities.