Last night, I was talking to a reporter friend who had been with me one year ago when I came to Haiti to help respond to the earthquake that killed nearly 250,000 people and left over 1 million people displaced. He asked me if things had improved since he was...

An hour and a half after leaving the crowded streets of Port-au-Prince, we arrived at the gates of the new Camejo Hospital in Leogane, a town only 20 miles outside the capital city where the January 12 earthquake was centered.

After honking our car horn at the gate, an...

This article originally appeared in the Sacramento Bee.

Since the devastating earthquake that rocked Haiti on Jan. 12, I've spent nearly three months in the Caribbean island nation conducting assessments of health care providers in order to deliver needed medical supplies. My time...

During the past four months that I've spent in Haiti, I've gotten lots of questions from friends and family about how safe it is for me to be staying in the outskirts of Cite Soleil in Port au Prince. And I've had a difficult time answering that...

The Chronicle of Philanthropy announced May 12th that over $1.1 billion has been donated to support relief efforts in Haiti. The largest recipients include the American Red Cross ($444 million), Catholic Relief Services ($135.7 million) and Oxfam International (over $100 million). This outpouring of generosity on the...

A few days ago, my colleague and I were scheduled to drive up to Hospital Albert Schweitzer to assess their medical supply needs and determine what more we could give them from our medical supply inventory. Unfortunately, we soon found out that we wouldn't be able to...

Since the devastating earthquake on January 12th, hospital services in Haiti have been provided to patients for free. No matter what your status or ability to pay, for three months after the earthquake you could feel certain that you could see a doctor and (hopefully acquire medications) for...

Much has been made of the unintended consequences that have come about as a result of the large-scale relief efforts in Haiti. Local rice producers can't sell their products because it is being given out for free just down the road. Daily wages have gone up as a...

I think taking a week off to get out of Haiti was a good idea. Without knowing it, I had started to get used to things down here and accepted circumstances as normal when they really shouldn't be.

Buildings -- this one being a school -- should not look like...

Every so often, something happens down here that makes you think that some of the coordination efforts between the UN, aid organizations, and the government are actually working. The UN has the tremendously difficult task of trying to coordinate and oversee over 900 foreign NGOs in...