GlobeMed featured in NU alumni magazine
Posted on Aug 1, 2008 by Peter Luckow
The spring/summer edition of Crosscurrents, an alumni publication for Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, featured a story on GlobeMed's emergence as a national organization engaging students to improve global health.
The story describes GlobeMed's evolution over the past few years and how the organization's work in Ghana helped mold a broader model that has now spread to university chapters across the country.
A few excerpts and quotes:
"[Peter] Luckow explains, 'We try to actively engage students in the global health field by linking them in long-term partnerships with
community-based health organizations. And we do so in a way that really supports the needs of those organizations'."
"While she was president of the Northwestern chapter, Kristina Redgrave says the group was collecting supplies and sending them to hospitals overseas. 'The problem was that you didn't know who was receiving them or how they were being used. We were uncomfortable with the medical supplies model but, as students, we did not know how to go about changing it." Then she took her first global health class with Michael Diamond, lecturer in the program, and solutions began to emerge. 'He's been an amazing mentor. He helped run the polio eradication campaign for Rotary International. He has helped us to challenge our model and to think through going in a new direction'.
"Says [Victor ] Roy, 'GlobeMed is the portal through which students can go from point A - concerned about global health but don't know how to make their lives about it - to point B, where they can see this as a life commitment'."
The electronic version of the magazine can be found here:
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/alumni/cc_6.17.08_h_links.pdf
The spring/summer edition of Crosscurrents, an alumni publication for Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, featured a story on GlobeMed's emergence as a national organization engaging students to improve global health.
The story describes GlobeMed's evolution over the past few years and how the organization's work in Ghana helped mold a broader model that has now spread to university chapters across the country.
A few excerpts and quotes:
"[Peter] Luckow explains, 'We try to actively engage students in the global health field by linking them in long-term partnerships with
community-based health organizations. And we do so in a way that really supports the needs of those organizations'."
"While she was president of the Northwestern chapter, Kristina Redgrave says the group was collecting supplies and sending them to hospitals overseas. 'The problem was that you didn't know who was receiving them or how they were being used. We were uncomfortable with the medical supplies model but, as students, we did not know how to go about changing it." Then she took her first global health class with Michael Diamond, lecturer in the program, and solutions began to emerge. 'He's been an amazing mentor. He helped run the polio eradication campaign for Rotary International. He has helped us to challenge our model and to think through going in a new direction'.
"Says [Victor ] Roy, 'GlobeMed is the portal through which students can go from point A - concerned about global health but don't know how to make their lives about it - to point B, where they can see this as a life commitment'."
The electronic version of the magazine can be found here:
http://www.wcas.northwestern.edu/alumni/cc_6.17.08_h_links.pdf
