Jenzabar Foundation awards GlobeMed at the 2011 MCC in Boston
Posted on Sep 22, 2011 by Bianca Nguyen
Written by Maya Cohen, GlobeMed Executive Director
Maya Cohen and Bianca Nguyen, GlobeMed's Director of Development, traveled to Boston on September 15 - 18 to represent GlobeMed at the 2011 Millennium Campus Conference. Below, Maya reflects on the weekend.
This past weekend, Bianca and I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Millennium Campus Conference, hosted at Harvard in Boston. During MCC, we were able to connect with students and leaders in health and development from across the U.S. and the world.
On Saturday, we spoke on two panels addressing more than 200 students. The first, Infectious Disease and the Cycle of Poverty, allowed us to highlight 3 chapters -- Columbia, CU-Boulder, and UChicago -- tackling 3 of the top 5 infectious disease killers: HIV/AIDS, Diarrhoeal disease, and Tuberculosis. We had the pleasure of sharing the panel with leaders from FACE AIDS, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, along with our wonderful moderator, Paul Ellingstad, Director of HP Global Social Innovation. The second, a workshop on Marketing, aimed at equipping students with the skills to communicate a cause and mobilize a movement on campus. We drew from GlobeMed's fantastic body of campaigns, including UCLA's Got Goats? campaign, UT-Austin's WDSJ giant paper mache poops, and our current social media campaign around NCDs, to give concrete examples of creative and effective student-produced marketing.
On Sunday, we had the tremendous honor of receiving one of three Student Leadership Awards presented by The Jenzabar Foundation to student groups they feel are doing outstanding work to change the world. I, along with Gerald Guevara from GlobeMed at Loyola and Karina Yu from GlobeMed at Columbia, accepted the award. Columbia, Loyola and CU-Boulder all submitted applications to Jenzabar and so impressed the committee that they decided to honor both the National Office and these 3 chapters. We had the chance to highlight the qualities that set GlobeMed student leaders apart -- dedication to our core values, humility, and a commitment to tangible, impactful action. We can't thank The Jenzabar Foundation enough for their support, and their generous grant of $5,000, which will go towards the 3 chapters who submitted applications to Jenzabar, as well as launch grants for our 2012 class of Chapter Founders.
Written by Maya Cohen, GlobeMed Executive Director
Maya Cohen and Bianca Nguyen, GlobeMed's Director of Development, traveled to Boston on September 15 - 18 to represent GlobeMed at the 2011 Millennium Campus Conference. Below, Maya reflects on the weekend.
This past weekend, Bianca and I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the Millennium Campus Conference, hosted at Harvard in Boston. During MCC, we were able to connect with students and leaders in health and development from across the U.S. and the world.
On Saturday, we spoke on two panels addressing more than 200 students. The first, Infectious Disease and the Cycle of Poverty, allowed us to highlight 3 chapters -- Columbia, CU-Boulder, and UChicago -- tackling 3 of the top 5 infectious disease killers: HIV/AIDS, Diarrhoeal disease, and Tuberculosis. We had the pleasure of sharing the panel with leaders from FACE AIDS, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative, along with our wonderful moderator, Paul Ellingstad, Director of HP Global Social Innovation. The second, a workshop on Marketing, aimed at equipping students with the skills to communicate a cause and mobilize a movement on campus. We drew from GlobeMed's fantastic body of campaigns, including UCLA's Got Goats? campaign, UT-Austin's WDSJ giant paper mache poops, and our current social media campaign around NCDs, to give concrete examples of creative and effective student-produced marketing.
On Sunday, we had the tremendous honor of receiving one of three Student Leadership Awards presented by The Jenzabar Foundation to student groups they feel are doing outstanding work to change the world. I, along with Gerald Guevara from GlobeMed at Loyola and Karina Yu from GlobeMed at Columbia, accepted the award. Columbia, Loyola and CU-Boulder all submitted applications to Jenzabar and so impressed the committee that they decided to honor both the National Office and these 3 chapters. We had the chance to highlight the qualities that set GlobeMed student leaders apart -- dedication to our core values, humility, and a commitment to tangible, impactful action. We can't thank The Jenzabar Foundation enough for their support, and their generous grant of $5,000, which will go towards the 3 chapters who submitted applications to Jenzabar, as well as launch grants for our 2012 class of Chapter Founders.
