Our Impact

Since 2006, GlobeMed at Northwestern has advanced efforts for global health equity in two communities -- Ho, Ghana and Chicago, IL.

Advancing health in Ghana and Chicago

The HOPE Center, working with GlobeMed at Northwestern and the Ghana Health Services, has been providing providing maternal and child care services in Ho, Ghana since April 2007.  GlobeMed has advanced the work of the HOPE Centre through providing over $50,000 to date for construction and furnishing of the Centre along with several operational programs.

In 2008, the Center has:

  • Treated nearly three hundred community members for diseases such as malaria, upper respiratory infection, anemia, and diarrhea.
In September 2008, GlobeMed at Northwestern launched a new partnership with BEHIV, a comprehensive AIDS service organization in the Chicago area. Northwestern students have been regularly volunteering at BEHIV and are receiving valuable training in HIV/AIDS education and treatment.
 

Building a generation of global health leaders

Since the chapter's founding, more than one hundred students have been members of GlobeMed at Northwestern.  These members, along with hundreds of other students on the Northwestern campus, have participated in GlobeMed's high-impact programming.  In addition to providing students with the knowledge and skills to address issues of global health, these events have mobilized participants to join in the movement for global health equity.

A few highlights:

  • Currently, there are over 30 active GlobeMed at Northwestern members working to support the HOPE Centre and participate in on-campus global health discussions.
  • 25 members from GlobeMed at Northwestern have attended the annual conference of the GlobeMed Network, the GlobeMed Global Health Summit, in the past two years.
  • Graduates of GlobeMed at NU have gone on to be leaders in their young careers. Victor Roy (NU '07) is now the executive director of the GlobeMed Network, and Colleen Fant (NU'08) received the $10,000 Mind the Gap Fellowship to spearhead starting an HIV VCT at the HOPE Centre.