Health is a right? (by Jon Shaffer)
Posted by Peter Luckow on October 9, 2008
Jon Shaffer, the President of GlobeMed at Northwestern University, recently posted this fantastic entry on his blog: Here is a really interesting post on The Health Care Blog by Maggie Mahar who rights on the Health Beat blog. In it she criticizes the use of rights language when talking about health …Keep Reading
Bucking the trend
Posted by Victor Roy on September 22, 2008
To leave, or not to leave? Unfortunately, that's not even the question for many medical students in sub-Saharan Africa. "How can I leave?" is more often the worry for so many promising medical professionals. With low pay, dangerous working conditions, and greater incentives elsewhere, more and more "would-be leaders" are leaving …Keep Reading
Horizontal, vertical, or diagonal?
Posted by Victor Roy on September 8, 2008
Debates about the design and financing of public health programs can be heated. Do vertical, disease-specific programs, such as TB, malaria or HIV/AIDS interventions, miss the point? The development of "horizontal" health systems and infrastructure, capable of addressing a broader spectrum of diseases, many say, should be the goal. A disease-specific …Keep Reading
Global health blogging
Posted by Peter Luckow on August 25, 2008
Relative to other topic areas, there are few individuals or organizations running global health blogs. But, of the few global health blogs on the internet, nearly all of them are worth checking out. Here are some of my favorites: Global Health Report - Christine Gorman: "Join longtime health journalist Christine Gorman …Keep Reading
Join the GlobeMed Network listserv!
Posted by Peter Luckow on August 18, 2008
Today, GlobeMed is launching an email listserv for GlobeMed members and other students passionate about health and social justice. The listserv will serve as a forum to share ideas, discuss related topics, and exchange information about upcoming events and opportunities. To join the listserv, visit http://groups.google.com/group/GlobeMed and click "Sign in and …Keep Reading
Kicking the blog into gear
Posted by Peter Luckow on August 15, 2008
The series of tubes that make up the internet are connecting people throughout the world in unprecedented ways. As the internet has become increasingly accessible in the developing world, it has become an essential tool for communicating with our partners around the world. Additionally, we have begun to use various web …Keep Reading
Chapter websites have arrived!
Posted by Peter Luckow on August 14, 2008
I'm thrilled to announce that we have just launched our first chapter website! GlobeMed at Northwestern worked closely with the Central Staff over the past two months to develop the design and content for their website. Over the next few weeks, several other well-established chapters will be launching chapter websites as …Keep Reading
GlobeMed’s Values - excerpts from speech delivered at annual Summit
Posted by Victor Roy on April 6, 2008
The following contains excerpts from a speech delivered by GlobeMed's Executive Director, Victor Roy, at the benefit dinner which concluded GlobeMed's second Annual Global Health Summit on April 5th in Evanston, IL. “Each of the students in this room, and I would suspect, all of us in this room - otherwise …Keep Reading
GlobeMed: Taking the road of pragmatic solidarity
Posted by Peter Luckow on February 4, 2008
Our generation has come to an important crossroads. At this moment, interest in the work of advancing health and social justice is at an unprecedented high. We have reached the time where we must choose to continue on the path of charity or to embark on a new path of …Keep Reading
To hell with good intentions
Posted by Anthony Esparaz on January 21, 2008
At last year’s GlobeMed Global Health Summit, Professor Michael Diamond from Northwestern University led a workshop on “Going Beyond Compassion”. In it, Dr. Diamond introduced a completely different, moreover discouraging, assertion that is often not considered by global health student-volunteers: is it possible that the efforts of major relief programs, like …Keep Reading
