Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, Inc.

The Fellowship launched the U.S. Schweitzer Fellows Programs in Boston in 1991. Today, our programs in Baltimore,Bay Area, Boston, Chicago, Greater Philadelphia, New Hampshire/Vermont, North Carolina, and Pittsburgh provide yearlong, multidisciplinary fellowship opportunities to 148 students from a wide range of health and human service professional schools. Each Schweitzer Fellow works with a local community agency to carry out a service project that contributes at least 200 hours of direct service. The Fellows' projects assist those whose health needs are not being fully met by our health care system.

Since 1978, the Fellowship selects four senior U.S. medical students annually from primarily New England medical schools who work for three months at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene, Gabon assisting the medical staff in internal medicine, pediatrics, and surgery.

Through support from the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, other Schweitzer organizations around the world, and the Gabonese government, the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene, Gabon serves patients from all over Gabon. In 1999, after years of planning led by the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, a Community Health Program was inaugurated, providing comprehensive village-based health care, vaccination and other preventive medicine programs, and health education.