Develop 21st Century Leaders for Global Health

Is it already April? Time flies when you’re changing the world! Here are some highlights from the past quarter:

• We awarded $152,500 in GROW Grants to 130 students who will go on GROW this summer, and hosted the 7th annual GROW Institute in Chicago to prepare GROW teams from GlobeMed's 60 chapters.
• We visited 8 GlobeMed chapters, including Arizona State University, St Edward's University, and UC Berkeley!
• We celebrated the World Day of Social Justice with our first ever digital gallery.

We are also extremely excited about ramping up our support for GlobeMed alumni - young professionals who belonged to a GlobeMed chapter during college - who are committed to leading in global health. We're proud to feature two brilliant alumni: Desi Hartman and Cameron Clarke.

• Desi Hartman, an alumna of GlobeMed at Colorado College, shared her powerful personal story, and how her identity and lived experience has empowered her to serve as a global health champion. She also learned about amplifying voices of community partners during her GROW experience in Mumias, Kenya.
• Cameron Clarke, a GlobeMed at Howard University alumnus currently enrolled at Oxford, shared about how he discovered his passion for global health. “When you walk through the communities that I’ve come from and worked in, you see a lot of health issues" he said. "It’s so important to have Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and people of color, in particular, at the heart of the global health movement."

Over the next quarter, we'll be hard at work to bring you more stories that highlight the students, alumni, and community partners that work hard every single day to advance health equity.

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