 Nursing Students Without Borders was founded in the summer of 1999 by third-year University of Virginia (UVA) nursing school students Matthew Walden, Esther Miller, Ann Maushammer, Bridget Kuczkowski, Teri Woodard, Rosalind DeLisser, and Bob Watkins and two Charlottesville community members, Thomas "Roddy" Hughes, JD and Nathan S. Ivey, PhD .The multidisciplinary health care team provides a key set of health maintenance support to chosen communities locally and internationally.This includes assessing public health emergencies, endemic diseases and individual patients' needs, developing plans of care, and providing continued care over a set period of time.