Monterey Starkey

International H.E.L.P.

Monterey Starkey changed her career path from medicine to public health and received her Masters of Public Health with a Global specialization. After graduation, Monterey moved to Nicaragua and started a community health program by training volunteers in rural areas to be community health workers, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to prevent diseases and unnecessary deaths in their communities. From this experience, she has seen firsthand the value of health education. Her passion is to create sustainable programs that will better the health of an entire community through education and empowerment. Since that experience, Monterey traveled throughout different countries, seeking to gain deeper cultural perspectives to develop a better understanding of the best practices for creating public health programs that are capable of bridging cultural barriers. In 2015 she founded International H.E.L.P. – Health Education for Local People – a nonprofit committed to ending preventable diseases by educating, empowering, and equipping local people within a community to be their own health leaders. She continues to run this nonprofit in the U.S. while traveling to other countries to provide the health trainings for new community health workers – teaching them the life-saving skills of water filtration, sanitation, nutrition and basic first aid.