by mjb843 | Mar 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
At every meeting, GlobeMed at CU – Boulder asks one student to stand up, address the chapter, and give a “why you are here” speech to open up that space for discernment, motivation, and purpose. This week, their Director of Finances, Vivek C., stood...
by mjb843 | Mar 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
Food prices are at an all-time high, inciting anxiety over food shortages across the world. Check out the excerpt of the Fast Company article below to learn more: If the world has a poor harvest this year, food prices will rise to previously unimaginable levels. Food...
by mjb843 | Mar 1, 2011 | Uncategorized
This article is one of many in a recent special report by the Economist on the rising demand for food in the world. Because of the rapidly growing population, food resources are short not only in developing countries, but even in richer countries. World food prices...
by mjb843 | Feb 24, 2011 | Global Health, GlobeMed, International, Public Health, Social Justice
A worthy organization recently brought to the chapter’s attention is Tiyatien Health, a not-for-profit that works to rebuild the failed health system of Liberia. Liberia is still struggling to recover from a horrific civil war that ended in 2003. Tiyatien...
by mjb843 | Feb 24, 2011 | Global Health, GlobeMed
Students are presented with a wide array of opportunities to engage with global health issues. As exciting as it can be to jump into an experience abroad, it is important for us, as discerning students of global health, to be extremely critical of our own intentions...
by mjb843 | Feb 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
“This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century—solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will...
by mjb843 | Feb 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
India is one of the few countries in the world in which polio has not yet been eradicated. A recent campaign in India to vaccinate more people was launched last month, and in just five days, 2 and 1/2 million workers vaccinated over 178 million children. This article...
by mjb843 | Feb 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Check out this great video, created by GlobeMed’s own Tiffany Wong! It highlights our recent ‘guerrilla marketing’ campaign to promote the World Day of Social Justice (which is happening tomorrow, February 20th) on the Northwestern campus. We gave...
by mjb843 | Feb 19, 2011 | Uncategorized
Here’s a link to the most recent update on the cholera outbreak in Haiti, which details the weakening outbreak but notes the high mortality rates in rural areas. One proposed solution involves the use of oral rehydration packets as suggested in this article....
by mjb843 | Feb 16, 2011 | Uncategorized
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6wTQpgErKs] A couple weeks ago, GlobeMed at NU started brainstorming creative ways to commemorate the World Day of Social Justice. Tomorrow, Feburary 17, we are putting these ideas into action. From 10am-2pm at the Norris...
