About the GlobeMed Global Health Summit
The GlobeMed Global Health Summit brings together university students from across the country for three days of intensive lectures and workshops with global health leaders to advance the movement for social justice and global health equity. The Summit is designed to educate students with a foundational understanding of relevant issues in global health and prepare them with the skills needed to make an impact today.
2008 Summit participants at the opening keynote
The 2010 GlobeMed Global Health Summit will take place at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL from March 4-7. This year's Summit will explore the theme Ubuntu and Social Justice: Building global partnerships for a more equitable world. Summit discussions and workshops will explore the concept of health as a human right and how to apply this knowledge to community-based health initiatives around the world.
This year's Summit will build off the previous Summits, Activism for Health Equity (2007), A Generational Calling: Solidarity in Global Health (2008), and Securing Health as a Human Right: From Idea to Implementation (2009) which brought together over 400 students from 19 universities across the country and leading global health experts from the Harvard School of Public Health, Partners In Health, AIDS-Free World and other organizations.
About GlobeMed
GlobeMed is a network of university students who partner with grassroots organizations around the world to improve the health of the impoverished. Through their involvement today, students commit to a life of leadership in global health and social justice.
The GlobeMed Network currently includes 19 chapters at university campuses throughout the country and a national office in Evanston, IL. The grassroots organizations supported by GlobeMed chapters span the world from Mexico to Nepal. Since 2007, GlobeMed students have raised over $140,000 for public health projects in 21 communities around the world.
For more information about GlobeMed, please visit our website at www.globemed.org
A community nutrition session in Ghana being led by one of GlobeMed's partner organizations