Blueprints 4 Pangaea - The Ohio State University Chapter

Our Mission

Every year millions of individuals around the world unnecessarily suffer from treatable health conditions due to lack of access to basic medical supplies and equipment. Simultaneously, the US health care system annually disposes of hundreds of million pounds of unused, usable medical goods valued on the order of billions of dollars. Our mission is to reallocate unused medical supplies from areas of excess to areas in need. By collecting and shipping supplies abroad, we’re changing the fate of these precious medical resources and lives.

About us

B4P is a network of university chapters united in addressing global health care inequalities by reallocating excess, unused medical supplies—that would otherwise be discarded—from U.S. hospitals and suppliers to areas of need overseas. B4P then arranges transport of these supplies to foreign hospitals, enabling affordable, higher quality patient care overseas. With fewer medical resources to process, our partner hospitals are able to cut expenses and reduce their environmental footprints while gaining community goodwill.

Blueprints 4 Pangaea is an organization based and founded at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. Here is a link to our main website and here is a link to the list of members who run this nonprofit at the University of Michigan. I am currently a part of the exec of one of the chapters of this larger nonprofit at The Ohio State University (in Columbus, OH).