Seed Global Health

About Seed Global Health 

Seed Global Health (Seed) is an international non-profit organization with offices in the United States, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Uganda, and Zambia. Seed has 5 offices and employs 65 staff and 26 clinical educators. Seed envisions a world in which every country is strengthened by a robust health workforce to best meet the health needs of its population. Seed’s mission is to educate a rising generation of health professionals to strengthen access to quality care with a goal of saving lives and improving health. 

Seed is unique in its approach by focusing on the education and training of doctors, nurses and midwives. By training health care professionals and health educators, Seed seeks to empower current and future generations of health providers so that good health is not the privilege of a few, but the right of all. Seed focuses on strengthening the education, practice, and policy of the local professional health workforce in Africa. Seed’s core strategy and primary entry point centers on placing skilled and qualified educators at partner institutions for a minimum of one academic year. Seed also supports educators and partner institutions through a diverse and complementary package of services aimed at advancing health professional education in the classroom and clinical setting. By investing in long-term partnerships for improved health professional education, Seed helps to create a stronger, more sustainable health workforce that is both locally led and better able to meet local health needs.