Welcome to Surmang Foundation

  • We have served over 150,000 ultra-poor Tibetans in Qinghai for the past 10 years, providing free medical services and free meds.
  • We have mobilized public health with a corps of 40 Community Health Workers. We have saved countless mothers and babies.
  • We have created a prototype for rural health among the ultra-poor based on our successful Surmang Clinic, and that prototype has been accepted by the Chinese government Yushu Prefecture, moving our work from a one-off to a sustainable model.

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Surmang Foundation

Surmang News Parasol 2012

Surmang Foundation 2011 Summary

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Parasol 2012 (Chinese)

Surmang Foundation 2011 Summary (Chinese)

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2011 Annual Report

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1st Rural Health Festival

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On remote Tibetan plateau, a health-care program that could be a model for China

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Let the Yak Calves Take Care of the Milking

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Interview with Dawn Factor

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Rural Health Festival 2011

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Parasol 2011

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Rural Health Festival 2011

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Providing Health Services to Indigenous Peoples

BMJ Vol. 327, 23 August 2003

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GlobalGiving Project Report: Yushu Earthquake Surviva

The 1st Year --transplanting Surmang Model into the Public Health System
By Lee Weingrad - Director, Surmang Foundation

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PAG Letter

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Yushu Earthquake 2010 Video is up

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Surmang Foundation Annual Report 2010 is up

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Surmang Signs Historic Agreement with Chinese Government

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KGNU Interview in Boulder, 29 June 2010

KGNU Interview in Boulder with Lee Weingrad, Julie Carpenter, and Dawn Factor concerning Rural Health in Asia. Please be patient - the interview starts a couple of minutes into the broadcast and after some music. Listen.

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Earthquake at Surmang and new housing for our doctors

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Appointments

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Surmang to Sign Major Agreement with Chinese Government

The Chinese Government has invited Surmang Foundation to sign a major and historic partnership agreement at the end of November. Surmang has operated a private clinic in Yushu County, Qinghai Province since 1992.

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Yushu Diary: Back From the Edge

Aiding southwestern China after the earthquake and beyond
-China Brief Magazine - AmCham-China-November 2010

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Assessment of the Surmang Prototype Emergency Assessment Yushu Earthquake 2010

An Assessment of the Surmang Prototype Emergency Assessment Yushu Earthquake.

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Jake Hooker in the New York Times

Our own Jake Hooker is featured in the New York Times.

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New Videos Posted

Yushu Tent City and Community Health Workers

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