Relationships to Support the Goals

Collaboration with NGOs for SDGs

BMC actively contributes to the NGOs’ policy development related to SDGs, offering valuable insights on identifying challenges, crafting policies and strategies, modeling potential futures with targeted interventions, and enabling adaptive management practices. A significant aspect of BMC’s contribution to the SDGs is through its collaborations with NGOs. This is one of BMC's most robust areas of activity. Collaboration with NGOs is operationalized through three key channels:

• Student Volunteering Programs: This is the most visible form of collaboration. BMC’s commitment to community engagement is further demonstrated through regular outreach educational activities aimed at a wide audience, including alumni, citizens, residents, and displaced individuals. These initiatives focus on raising awareness and providing education on critical health and disease-related issues such as cancer, diabetes, AIDS, mental health, nutrition, fitness, coronavirus, first aid, Alzheimer’s, respiratory care, and osteoporosis, as well as on broader themes like intellectual issues, teacher support, women empowerment, equality, and cultural diversity. Examples abound:

  • "Get Along with Me Association for Animal Welfare": The Dentistry program’s Animal Abuse Awareness event involved lectures and engagement, channeling student volunteerism towards ethical education and compassion.

  • Saudi Alzheimer’s Disease Association: Student volunteers participated in awareness campaigns, providing a human resource force that amplifies the NGO's reach.

  • "Andalusiah Hospital" & "King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital": In events like the Breast Cancer Awareness Day, these NGOs and healthcare providers partnered with BMC, offering screening services and expertise, while BMC provided the volunteer staff and student manpower to manage booths and public engagement.

  • Saudi Society for Hearing Impairment: The Dentistry program's event for deaf and speech-disabled individuals was facilitated by certified sign language translators provided by the society, showcasing a deep, functional partnership.

• Research Programs: While the provided reports focus more on service, the underlying structure for research collaboration exists. The forums and partnerships with international universities provide the scaffolding for joint research projects that could directly involve NGOs, for instance, studying the epidemiology of diseases in vulnerable populations served by these NGOs. Another  strategic collaboration between Saudi biomanufacturing (SaudiVax) and BMC to launch a comprehensive biotech training program designed to build a future-ready Saudi workforce that bridging classroom learning with real-world biomanufacturing experience. 

• Development of Educational Resources: BMC students and faculty consistently develop educational materials—brochures, pamphlets, presentations, models for use in NGO-led campaigns. This co-creation of resources ensures that information is medically accurate and pedagogically effective.