About Us
GNU Solidario: Advancing Social Medicine
GNU Solidario is a humanitarian non-profit organization with a worldwide mission to advance and deliver Social Medicine. In this context, we also fight for the freedom and dignity of non-human animals.
Although we work in emergency situations, most of our resources are focused on delivering sustainable solutions for the betterment of our societies. We actively work in two large areas: Health informatics (the GNU Health ecosystem) and Animal Rights (Rompiendo Cadenas).
Freedom, Privacy and Equity in Healthcare
The GNU Health project provides the tools for individuals, health professionals, institutions and governments to proactively assess and improve the underlying determinants of health, from the socioeconomic agents to the molecular basis of disease. From primary health care to precision medicine. The following are the main components that make up the GNU Health ecosystem:
- Social Medicine and Public Health
- Hospital Management (HMIS)
- Laboratory Management (Occhiolino)
- Personal Health Record (MyGNUHealth)
- Bioinformatics and Medical Genetics
- Thalamus and Federated health networks
- GNU Health embedded on Single Board devices
GNU Health is a Free/Libre, community-driven project from GNU Solidario, that counts with a large and friendly international community. GNU Solidario celebrates GNU Health Con (https://www.gnuhealthcon.org) and the International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies (IWEEE) every year, that gathers the GNU Health and social medicine advocates from around the world.
GNU Health is a GNU (www.gnu.org) official package, awarded with the Free Software Foundantion award of Social benefit, among others. GNU Health has been adopted by many hospitals, governments and multilateral organizations around the globe.
The fight for Animal Rights
Rompiendo Cadenas (the fight for Animal Rights): We fight for the rights and dignity of any animal, human and non-human. If we want to evolve as a society (and avoid extinction), we need to be compassionate and respectful to those around us, independently of the species. We need to move away from the current anthropocentric, capitalist, oppressive and self-destructive model. We must embrace Nature and the protect the freedom and dignity of each living creature. GNU Solidario works in different campaigns to abolish animal experimentation and any other practice that involves cruelty to animal.
We promote ethical and efficient biomedical research, focused on the human physiology, that does not involve any type of animal cruelty.
GNU Solidario collaborates with sister organizations, public administrations and academic instutions at a local, national and European level. From advocacy workshops to the development, revision and improvement of the animal rights and protection laws.
The Global Exposome Project
The Global Exposome Project (GEP) takes a holistic approach to the effect the environment has on living organisms as a whole. In addition, the project places the human being both as receptor and as a causative, etiological agent for many of the current stressors that affect human and nonhuman animals, plants and other living organisms on earth. In other words, we care about our exposome, but we also care about their exposome.