Posts by Jon Shaffer
GlobeMed at Northwestern Quarterly Newsletter
Posted on December 14, 2008
Please check out our Fall Quarter Newsletter to read articles about GlobeMed at Northwestern students traveling to our health partner, the HOPE Center in Ho, Ghana, guest articles from Prof. Kearsly Stewart and Peter Luckow, and other great content. It has been a very productive quarter as is reflected in the …Keep Reading
The New Colonialists?
Posted on October 22, 2008
To continue the discussion of critical and thoughtful volunteerism and international work, I just thought that I'd forward a couple more good reads that are relevant to the discussion that we had at our meeting tonight. The first is a short article in the North by Northwestern Magazine talking about the …Keep Reading
GlobeMed on the radio!
Posted on October 6, 2008
Freshman Nick Zessis interviews Jon Shaffer, co-president of GlobeMed at Northwestern, on WNUR, Northwestern's student radio station, about GlobeMed's goals for this quarter.
Reflections on the progress of the HOPE Centre
Posted on August 19, 2008
Colleen, my partner in crime this past year as co-president of GlobeMed at NU and the one who will be spending 9 months at the HOPE Center this year working to develop an HIV VCT (voluntary testing and counseling center), has some important analysis of her experiences so far at the …Keep Reading
Great success!
Posted on August 12, 2008
After about a full day of struggling with the code, I was finally able to install the medical records software on one of the computers at the Center. Now begins the real work of inputing all of the data that the Center has collected about its patients on paper records into …Keep Reading
Video - First days in Ghana
Posted on August 11, 2008
Here is some video of our first days in Ghana. I'm still learning to take good video, so bear with me. But, enjoy what I've taken so far!
First day in Ho
Posted on August 7, 2008
We finally made it to Ho! Nikita and I met the rest of our team (Sarah and Colleen) at the airport, and Joseph picked us up from there like planned. We didn't get to Joseph's (our host and director of the HOPE Center) house until pretty late, close to 1:00 am. …Keep Reading
Introducing the 2008 Ghana summer team
Posted on August 2, 2008
In the month of August, four of us will be traveling to Ghana and the HOPE Center: Colleen Fant, the former co-president of GlobeMed at Northwestern (and a recent grad of NU), Nikita Kohli, the current co-president of GlobeMed at NU, Sarah Mihalov, global project coordinator for GlobeMed at NU, and …Keep Reading
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