GlobeMed at UC
2014-2015
During my first year as a member of GlobeMed, I involved myself in the Partnerships and External Global Health University committees. In the Partnerships committee, I had the engaging opportunity and responsibility to assist with the communication between our GlobeMed chapter and the SAW Office in Thailand. Our committee worked on establishing a contract, or Partnership Action Framework, between the two organizations that would best serve the mutual interests of the two groups, and kept SAW up-to-date on developments in our chapter with Partnership Update Forms that conveyed recent activities and events in which our chapter was engaging in order to help the CHOP initiative. In addition, the Partnerships committee held biweekly Skype calls with representatives from the SAW Office, including Dr. Htin Zaw. Personally, I worked with SAW to examine impact of the Community Health Outreach Program's effectivity by analyzing qualitative and quantitative data provided by workshop participants and instructors.
In the External Global Health University (ghU) committee, I was part of a team that helped to bring awareness to international health disparities and health equity concerns. By engaging in tabling events in our student union building. organizing campus events centered around global health equity, and hanging up posters that gave context to the issues we were trying to confront in Thailand, but also many other health issues around the globe, we reached out to students on campus to get them engaged with these important topics. |
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(Top right) Partner Update Form -- An example of the PUF that is sent by the Partnerships committee to SAW staff on a bi-weekly basis, with SAW staff sending their own update on the off weeks. (Bottom left) Powerpoint presentation on Mae Sot, the community with which our partner organization works, prepared as part of the Partnerships committee and presented with Anthony Pantano. (Bottom right) Presentation on health disparities that I presented as an Internal Global Health University lesson.
These slides were made into a poster that was used for an External Global Health University event for World Day of Social Justice on February 20, 2015.
In addition to being a wonderful organization with an amazing purpose and such immense impact, GlobeMed has also been home to many of my closest friends. During the course of the year, I have formed great friendships with so many incredible people who have taught me so much. I am thankful for their friendship and for the opportunity to get to work with them to make a difference in the world.
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GlobeMed Summit 2015
The 2015 GlobeMed Summit at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois was one of the most life-changing experiences I have ever had the opportunity and pleasure to participate in. I can truly say that my experience at Summit--a conference in which students involved with the many different GlobeMed chapters across the country are united for a weekend of learning, discussion, and growth--changed my outlook on the entire organization.
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"The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world." - Dr. Paul Farmer
Not only was I able to bond with many of the close friends that I have made through GlobeMed at UC, but I was also able to meet amazing peers at other institutions with whom I talked late into the night about issues of social justice and health equity. I was presented to by pioneers in these fields, had the opportunity to bounce off ideas with my fellow GlobeMedders about how to improve our respective chapters, and was exposed to amazing new opportunities in the public health field that opened my eyes to how I might translate my interest and undergraduate involvement into a more long-term facet of my career. Unequivocally, the GlobeMed 2015 Summit was a highlight of my freshman year, and renewed my passion for and commitment to GlobeMed and all the amazing things that this organization can do.
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