Georgian Medical Group (GMG) is a non-Governmental organization legally registered in Georgia since 2007. The organization has been founded by professional women mostly representing broad areas of public health and medicine. Many of them have previously been engaged as full time staff or contracted personnel of JHPIEGO Corporation in Georgia, which championed in diverse aspects of reproductive health and family planning in the country for the late 1990-ies and early 2000s.

GMG was established with the aim to promote health and respective health-related rights among vulnerable groups of population based on policy reform and grass root level interventions. Our areas of interest include (but not limited to) reproductive health, HIV/AIDS, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), pharmaceutical industry, etc. The other important aspect of our vision is building coalitions around project targeted problems. With this we have developed a substantial network of people and organizations within and outside of health sector, which significantly helped us in implementing consensus based and professionally confident strategic approaches.

Through its history of working in the development sector, GMG implemented diverse public health projects ranging from reproductive health to WASH. Within the educational project for pharmacists on modern methods of contraception and post abortion care (donor: John Snow International/USAID), we trained 250 pharmacists through two-day trainings throughout the country. In the previous years, the GMG team members under the umbrella of different organizations (JSI/USAID) had contributed to the trainings of 536 pharmacists countrywide. Within the “HIV/STIs Prevention in Georgian Army” – a multiyear project funded from the US Department of Defence, from 2007 and until 2014, more than 6000 soldiers and officers of the Georgian army have been trained through several types of trainings, such as HIV/AIDS, substance abuse, senior leader training, cadet training.

The project also involved knowledge an attitude surveys. The ongoing USAID-funded $ 1,500,000 WASH project (2015-2020) targets 20 rural schools and 10 primary healthcare clinics in most disadvantaged villages of the Adjara Region of Georgia. The project has three gross components: WASH infrastructure rehabilitation, health education and community mobilization. The project aims to improve WASH situation for 4,000 school children and 15,000 adults. GMG is governed by the board composed of founders and the director. The director is a highest executive authority in the organization. The other permanent executive officials are: programs officer, office manager, trainers and financial manager. The project-specific positions are added to this list.