Posts by Jill Shah
Reflections from CGIU 2012: Service, commitment, and community
Posted on April 3, 2012
Written by: Alyssa Smaldino, Program Director, GlobeMedWhat Usher and Madeleine Albright have in common If you had asked me three days ago what Usher and Madeleine Albright had in common, my only response would have been “they both know how to work the stage”. I saw Usher work it in Pittsburgh …Keep Reading
Spotlight on globalhealthU: GlobeMed at BC, GlobeMed at MIT, and network-wide poverty-health cycles
Posted on April 3, 2012
Check out some highlights from the thoughtful and creative work that chapters have been doing in globalhealthU all year long: Poverty-health cyclesThis year’s theme of the globalhealthU curriculum looks at how poverty relates to health. Chapters discussed the intrinsic relationship between the two and created a visual representation of the poverty-health …Keep Reading
Because you’re a student
Posted on March 29, 2012
What’s special and powerful about a social movement driven by students? In this podcast in the Journal of Global Health, Maya Cohen, Executive Director of GlobeMed, and Nicole Dussault, GlobeMed at Columbia, weigh in on why students are uniquely positioned to drive social change. "[What] I think GlobeMed students do best …Keep Reading
2012 Summit opening keynote: Melissa Covelli of the Gates Foundation will speak on polio eradication
Posted on March 6, 2012
We are thrilled to announce that Melissa Covelli will deliver the opening keynote address at the 2012 GlobeMed Summit on the evening of Thursday, April 12. Melissa is a senior communications officer for the Polio Strategy at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. She will speak about her role in the …Keep Reading
Commemorating World Day of Social Justice across the GlobeMed network
Posted on February 21, 2012
This week, 46 GlobeMed chapters across the country are commemorating World Day of Social Justice through a variety of creative and thought-provoking ways. Here’s a snapshot of what the GlobeMed network is up to: >> NETWORK-WIDE TEACH INChapters ask 5 professors to spend 5 minutes of class time discussing how their …Keep Reading
World Day of Social Justice: A focus on labor rights
Posted on February 19, 2012
We’re continuing our series on important social justice issues today by focusing on labor rights. Labor rights pertain to the interactions between workers and their employers in work spaces and are widely accepted as universal, regardless of level of economic development in a country or cultural values. In the UN Declaration …Keep Reading
GROW Training Manual spotlight: Bringing GROW back home
Posted on February 9, 2012
Through Grassroots On-site Work (GROW), interns are presented with a significant opportunity to bring knowledge about the partner organization and community back home to chapter members and supporters. In Week 10 of the GROW Training Manual, interns identify the key tasks during the internship that will not only strengthen their chapter’s …Keep Reading
GROW Training Manual spotlight: Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E)
Posted on February 8, 2012
In Week 8, the GROW Training Manual addresses monitoring and evaluation (M&E), a crucial part of gathering tangible knowledge for progress in public health programs. The adapted M&E strategy is broken down into four steps, taking each intern through the process of gauging both personal impact on the partner and …Keep Reading
Introducing the Grassroots On-site Work (GROW) Training Manual!
Posted on February 7, 2012
GlobeMed's Grassroots On-Site Work (GROW) internship program is making unprecedented advancements. More than 150 students will travel on-site this summer to work with partner organizations across 4 continents. In the coming months, dozens of GlobeMed students will attend the network's first-ever regional GROW training retreats in LA, Chicago, DC, and Boston. …Keep Reading
Interrupting the spread of violence: 2012 Summit features Dr. Gary Slutkin, founder of Ceasefire
Posted on February 2, 2012
Violence as disease? That’s what the geographic clustering of violence in neighborhoods resembles. And to stop the spread of violence, epidemiologist Dr. Gary Slutkin and his colleagues at Ceasefire (founded by Dr. Slutkin as an initiative of the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention) have promoted a shift toward the view of …Keep Reading
