Uganda’s Ongoing Fight Against COVID-19

By Muhammed Saleh   The substantial number of COVID-19 vaccines being exclusively distributed and administered have led to the re-opening of wealthier countries. The added burdens of dealing with a global pandemic seem to be fading away. However, for many of the...

The Arts in Healthcare in Uganda

Medicine is often perceived to be a rigid science. It involves strict policies, complex diagnoses and a robust understanding of the human body. These characteristics make it seem disparate from the relatively free-flowing arts. The arts serve as a vehicle for humans...

GlobeMed: An Engineering Perspective

By John Galyas Before I stepped foot on campus to begin my freshman year at Northwestern, I knew I wanted to join GlobeMed. I had spent the last few weeks of the long summer before my freshman year Googling anything and everything about Northwestern in an admittedly...

Lessons From “Around the World”

By Tamar Eisen The most common question I have heard after returning to Northwestern for winter quarter is, “How was the world?” The reason I am consistently asked this question is because last fall, I went on a semester-long comparative health program to India, South...

ghU Recap: Voluntourism

By Amy Lin Last quarter, the ghU sessions delved into the topics of gender and sexuality. While the sessions were empowering and fun as a woman, it was easy to get swept up in the feminist movement and start saying things like “gender is a social construct” and “down...
Voices On Transgender Community

Voices On Transgender Community

By Elizabeth Kim This winter quarter’s GHUs at GlobeMed Northwestern has focused on gender and sexuality, of which transgender has been a topic of discussion. The overwhelming consensus in the discussions and in US classrooms is that there is not enough education...