Our STORY

Global Health Collaboration was founded in 2017 by Meggin Tallman, a nurse with a passion for reaching the world’s most underserved communities. What began as a global mission became something deeply personal - and ultimately deeply local.

In our early years, GHC operated a scholarship program that sent skilled professionals to areas of critical need around the world. We funded a nurse to serve in Togo, an electrician to bring power to a school in the Dominican Republic, and another nurse to provide care in Sierra Leone. That work changed lives- including our own.

After our final scholarship recipient found herself stranded in West Africa during a global pandemic our efforts focused on getting her home safe and then pausing. Meggin worked on a covid unit locally and all GHC programming went on hold.

Because the need never stopped, Meggin went back to school and earned her Master’s degree during this time and began practicing as a Family Nurse Practitioner in Tuscumbia, Alabama. What she found there looked familiar…the same critical gaps in healthcare access, the same food and housing insecurity, the same communities being left behind by the systems that were supposed to serve them.

The mission didn’t change. The geography did.

In 2026, GHC was revitalized with renewed focus: serving the uninsured, underinsured, and underserved right here in rural Alabama - with the same global perspective that started it all.  

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Our Values

Dignity- Every Person deserves care, regardless of income, zip code, or circumstance.

Community- We don’t serve from a distance. We show up where the need is.

Impact- We measure success not by programs launched but by lives changed.

Collaboration- No organization can do this alone. We partner, connect, and build together.