SOUHL Foundation is a global, not-for-profit organization, with the vision of achieving global health equity. SOUHL Foundation embraces optimistic thinking, and is driven by commitment to connectivity, collaboration, and contribution.
SOUHL Foundation engages in activities that improve health care access and raise awareness of the need for health education.
 Concept Global Health Equity
VisionHealth education and Health care access for all
StrategiesResearch, Education, and Communication
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Equity Gap Analysis™, a research program for identifying and addressing the lack of access to health education and health care in varying populations |
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Displacement aXis™, an array of multi-media educational tools that raise awareness of the challenges and promising solutions in providing access to health education and care in displaced populations |
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Access Health Library and Forum™, a new web-based communication platform for accessing, sharing, and editing information related to global health equity |
 Acknowledging the merit of existing independent solutions
Respecting people’s culture and context
Acting with openness and transparency
Sharing capabilities and competencies neutrally
Exploring creative avenues for conservation and redistribution
Achieving lasting positive
change
<Board of Directors>
Samara I. Hamze, MS, (Secretary & Treasurer) Vegetation Mapping and Plant Ecology
Gergana G. Haralampieva, MS, Health, Nutrition, Population and the Economy
Todorka Ignatova Kostadinova, PhD, University of Medicine in Bulgaria
<Ex-officio>
Tayeb Al-Hafez, M.D, (President)
Practicing Physician and Healthcare Strategist
<Advisory Board>
Bill Hogan
Igor Josifov
Lois M. Takahashi, PhD, Department of Urban Planning, UCLA
Betty Till
 Tayeb Al -Hafez is a Syrian-born American. He completed medical school in Syria and immigrated to the United States to complete his residency training. In his practice as a medical doctor, he has sought out opportunities to provide in-patient and acute care to uninsured, indigent, and disadvantaged populations across the nation. His work over many years -- in twenty-five health care centers primarily in low income, rural communities -- taught him firsthand that inequities in the health of his patients was related to the lack of both health education and health care access.
Dr. Al-Hafez has widened his study to include the effects of displacement on health care around the world, doing field research in recent years in Syria, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Tibet, and Singapore. He strongly believes that by providing health education we can achieve mental, emotional and physical wellness, and by providing access to health care we can prevent and defy illness. To realize his vision of achieving global health equity, he founded SOUHL Foundation .
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