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Doctors on Ground (DnG) is a medical non-profit organisation championing sustainability in community development and healthcare to marginalised groups in Malaysia.

We’re closing 2025 with something special.For the first time ever, Doctors on Ground (DnG) is opening our Impact & Strat...
10/12/2025

We’re closing 2025 with something special.

For the first time ever, Doctors on Ground (DnG) is opening our Impact & Strategy Online Forum to the public — and you’re invited!

Over the last five years, DnG has evolved from fast-paced crisis response into a systems-building organisation grounded in evidence, equity, and community-led care.

This forum captures that transition and presents our 2026–2030 strategic direction, including the launch of JagaJiran, Malaysia’s emerging community health ecosystem.

📅 20 December 2025
🕒 10:30AM–4:30PM (Flexible attendance)
💻 Google Meet
🎓 Certificate provided

Participants will explore DnG’s five strategic priorities through interactive plenary sessions, Miro board activities, and real-world insights from the field:

• Intersectional Equity
• Healthy Living Within Systems
• Continuity of Care
• Data-Led Interventions
• Decentralisation & Community-Driven Care

This is a space for students, professionals, partners, and anyone passionate about reimagining how community health is built, shared, and sustained in Malaysia.

👉 Register via the Google Form in our Instagram bio (Run because seats are limited!)

Let’s shape the next chapter of community-powered care — together.

We are opening applications for a Head of Operations (HR Portfolio) — a part-time, compensated leadership role on DnG’s ...
07/12/2025

We are opening applications for a Head of Operations (HR Portfolio) — a part-time, compensated leadership role on DnG’s Executive Committee.

As DnG enters its 2026–2030 phase, this role will lead our Human Resources ecosystem: recruitment and onboarding pipelines, volunteer development, performance tracking, and internal workflow systems. You will help shape how our 4,000+ volunteers are supported and how our teams operate across all departments.

We’re looking for someone with at least two years of professional HR experience, strong in structuring workflows and onboarding processes, and passionate about building people-centred systems. This role is ideal for professionals who enjoy creating clarity, supporting youth-led teams, and contributing to meaningful community impact.

This is a part-time, remote, flexible role, compensated at RM1,200/month, on a 12-month contract.

If you’re passionate about health, systems, and people — and want to contribute your expertise to a mission-driven organisation — we invite you to apply.

📄 Full brief in our bio
📩 Apply via LinkedIn or email your résumé to [email protected]

We are opening applications for a Head of Operations (HR Portfolio). This is a part-time, compensated leadership role on...
07/12/2025

We are opening applications for a Head of Operations (HR Portfolio). This is a part-time, compensated leadership role on DnG’s 2026/27 Executive Committee.

As DnG enters its 2026–2030 phase, this role will lead our Human Resources ecosystem, and will help shape how our teams operate and are supported across all departments.

If you’re passionate about health, systems, and people — and want to contribute your expertise to a mission-driven organisation — we invite you to apply on our LinkedIn Jobs Board, or email your résumé over to [email protected].

For more information on the position, explore our Jobs Brief in our bio!

What does it really mean to be ready for a pandemic?This question shaped some of the most important conversations at the...
05/12/2025

What does it really mean to be ready for a pandemic?

This question shaped some of the most important conversations at the 2025, and it’s also the question we’ve been answering quietly for years through our work at Doctors on Ground (DnG).

Across sessions on gender inclusion, environmental health, global health workforce, and health data governance, one truth kept surfacing:

Preparedness isn’t built in crisis.

It’s built in community.
It begins in homes, neighbourhoods, and systems long before an emergency ever arrives.

Some of the reflections that stayed with us:
• When systems strain, women, caregivers, and people with disabilities carry the heaviest burden
• The next pandemic won’t start in a hospital — it begins in the systems that shape daily life: housing, food access, environmental safety
• Trust is our most fragile resource, and communities recover faster when trust flows both ways
• Data is only powerful when it’s shared responsibly and equitably

Preparedness isn’t reaction. It’s culture.

It’s the daily work of building systems that don’t break under pressure, communities that trust, and a society where readiness is shared — not shouldered by the same few.

This year’s WHS conversations affirmed what we have long believed: That being ready for the next emergency starts with valuing the people and systems that keep us well today.

At Doctors on Ground (DnG), we believe that resilient health systems start within communities — not outside of them.Our ...
02/12/2025

At Doctors on Ground (DnG), we believe that resilient health systems start within communities — not outside of them.

Our Community Health Navigators (CHNs) are youth, caregivers, and neighbours trained to identify needs, connect families to care, and sustain follow-up long after an outreach ends. They are the heart of JagaJiran, and the first link in Malaysia’s emerging community-led health model.

What makes CHNs powerful is not just what they do — it’s who they are:
✔ Familiar faces who understand the realities of daily life
✔ Volunteers drawn from the very communities they serve
✔ People who see what formal systems often miss

Through JagaJiran, CHNs help us transform care from one-off interventions into continuity, ensuring families receive medical, social, or emotional support through DnG’s Continuity of Care Network and partner NGOs.

This is how we build the next generation of community health in Malaysia:
one case, one connection, one neighbourhood at a time.

If you believe in accessible, shared, and sustained care, we’d love for you to be part of this movement.

👉 Join our volunteering community on Telegram or
📩 Send us a message to learn how you can get involved.

Together, we strengthen the communities we call home.

JagaJiran: The Community Behind the IdeaBuilding neighbourhood-level systems of care, one visit at a time.Over the past ...
18/11/2025

JagaJiran: The Community Behind the Idea

Building neighbourhood-level systems of care, one visit at a time.

Over the past five years, Doctors on Ground (DnG) has met thousands of families across Malaysia’s B40, refugee, and stateless communities. One truth has stayed consistent: health doesn’t begin in hospitals — it begins where people live.

JagaJiran is our response to that truth.

It is a community-powered health ecosystem built by neighbours, caregivers, youth, and changemakers who believe that everyone, everywhere can be part of care. Through our Community Health Navigators (CHNs), we’re transforming passive awareness into active community care — identifying unseen needs, connecting families to help, and strengthening Malaysia’s growing case-identification network.

From checking in on elderly neighbours, supporting caregiving households, mapping community risks, or helping families navigate the health system, CHNs become the first eyes and ears of healthcare on the ground. Their work shapes better policies, stronger programmes, and a more resilient Malaysia.

As we prepare for the full launch of the JagaJiran ecosystem in 2026, this is the community that has carried the idea long before it became a project — and the community that will shape its future.

If you believe that care can be accessible, shared, and sustained, you already belong here.
✔️ Sign up as a Community Health Navigator
🤝 Partner with us to train or support local clusters
📊 Collaborate through research or community projects

Together, we build healthier neighbourhoods — one conversation, one visit, one family at a time.

Every June, Doctors on Ground (DnG) returns to Sabah — and each year, the work reminds us why community partnership is t...
16/11/2025

Every June, Doctors on Ground (DnG) returns to Sabah — and each year, the work reminds us why community partnership is the strongest engine of equitable healthcare.

This year’s programme, carried out with our long-standing partner Rainbow of Hope (ROH), brought us back to the boat schools and informal settlements where stateless children live, learn, and grow entirely outside the formal system. With ROH’s guidance and trust, we were able to:

🔹 Provide health screenings for scabies and waterborne illnesses
🔹 Reach children and families living in water-based communities
🔹 Train local volunteers in CPR, Stop the Bleed, scabies management, and basic emergency response
🔹 Strengthen community-led follow-up pathways for beneficiaries who require continued care

What stands out every year is not just the clinical work, but the partnership itself: ROH’s deep community relationships, cultural insight, and grounded presence make it possible for DnG to serve where systems are thin and where families remain invisible to formal healthcare.

As DnG moves towards a more community-led, decentralised model of care in 2026, Sabah continues to be an important learning ground — a place where we witness how local leadership, long-term trust, and shared responsibility can transform how care reaches those who need it most.

Thank you to our friends at Rainbow of Hope for another year of meaningful collaboration. Here’s to strengthening these systems of care together — year after year.

Doctors on Ground at the One Young World Summit 2025Through the AstraZeneca Young Health Programme (YHP) Impact Fellowsh...
14/11/2025

Doctors on Ground at the One Young World Summit 2025

Through the AstraZeneca Young Health Programme (YHP) Impact Fellowship, Doctors on Ground (DnG) was represented at the One Young World Summit 2025 in Munich by our Founder, Arissa Jemaima.

This year, Arissa joined the Summit as an AstraZeneca Delegate, part of the organisation’s largest delegation to date—100 leaders, including 12 YHP Impact Fellows and 87 AstraZeneca colleagues from around the world.

The Fellowship and Summit provided a critical platform to showcase Malaysia’s community-driven health work and to highlight , DnG’s flagship community-based Community Health Navigator (CHN) ecosystem. JagaJiran aligns strongly with AstraZeneca’s priorities in youth health and NCD prevention, as well as One Young World’s commitment to scalable, people-centred innovation.

Across the week, DnG engaged in discussions on health equity, systems leadership, gender, community resilience, and decentralised care — connecting Malaysia’s on-ground realities with global health agendas.

What’s next for DnG: We will be focusing on strengthening and scaling JagaJiran, expanding CHN training pathways, formalising global partnerships, and deepening our research on community health, gender, and NCDs. The goal remains the same: to build a sustainable, community-led ecosystem that ensures care is accessible, shared, and sustained where people live.

Care doesn’t start in hospitals—it starts at home.At Doctors on Ground (DnG), we’ve learned that health systems are only...
10/11/2025

Care doesn’t start in hospitals—it starts at home.

At Doctors on Ground (DnG), we’ve learned that health systems are only as strong as the communities they serve. Across Malaysia’s urban flats, refugee enclaves, and stateless settlements, the biggest barrier to care isn’t always medical availability—it’s distance: social, cultural, and structural.

, our neighbourhood health network, was built to close that distance.

Through a growing network of Community Health Navigators (CHNs), we connect households that have long been invisible to the system. These navigators are local volunteers: neighbours, caregivers, youth, trained to identify needs early, record them through a simple digital platform, and link families to DnG’s Continuity of Care Network or partner organisations.

Each connection represents something larger than a single act of care.
It’s how we transform fragmented outreach into a continuous, community-driven system—one that recognises health as something sustained, not delivered.

Because when communities are trusted and resourced, they don’t wait for care to arrive; they become part of the system that sustains it.

If your organisation, institution, or team believes in community-driven health, let’s collaborate.

Join the network, partner on training or data projects, or support our Community Health Navigator programme. Together, we can build care that is accessible, shared, and sustained—where it truly begins: at home.

Care shouldn’t only live in hospitals—it should live where people do.That’s what is about.A neighbourhood health netwo...
04/11/2025

Care shouldn’t only live in hospitals—it should live where people do.

That’s what is about.

A neighbourhood health network built by Doctors on Ground (DnG), where communities, volunteers, and partners come together to make care accessible, shared, and sustained.

Soon, we’ll be opening sign-ups for Community Health Navigators (CHNs) — volunteers who bring care closer to home by connecting people to help, resources, and each other.

If you believe care starts in communities, not clinics — stay connected: join our Telegram channel (link in bio) to get updates and be part of the ecosystem as it begins.

Building care where it matters most.Last weekend, DnG and hosted our first-ever CSR Community Clinic—reaching families ...
29/10/2025

Building care where it matters most.

Last weekend, DnG and hosted our first-ever CSR Community Clinic—reaching families from Malaysia’s B40, Rohingya, and Myanmar Muslim refugee communities.

This collaboration goes beyond one day of service. It reflects how shared responsibility between corporations and communities can truly transform access to care—and how youth-led volunteer teams can make that change real.

Each clinic helps us identify families who need long-term follow-up under DnG’s ongoing community health programmes—because care doesn’t end when the tents come down.

Thank you, AWS Malaysia, for walking this path with us. Together, we’re and continuing to .

We are proud to announce that our Founder, Arissa Jemaima, has been selected as Malaysia’s 2025 Impact Fellow under the ...
26/10/2025

We are proud to announce that our Founder, Arissa Jemaima, has been selected as Malaysia’s 2025 Impact Fellow under the Young Health Programme (YHP), and Scholar Participant at the (OYW) Summit 2025 in Munich, Germany.

This prestigious fellowship recognises 30 of the world’s most impactful young leaders in health and provides them with a platform to shape global dialogue on youth, equity, and non-communicable diseases (NCDs).

In November, Arissa will represent Doctors on Ground (DnG) as a Fellow Delegate and Scholar, bringing Malaysia’s grassroots healthcare perspectives to the international stage.

This milestone is a historic moment for DnG’s mission to transform healthcare delivery. From our communities here in Malaysia to the global stage, we are honoured to be shaping the conversation on how care can be accessible, equitable, and sustained by the people who need it most.

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