Develop 21st Century Leaders for Global Health

To cultivate the potential of our next generation of global health leaders, GlobeMed provides our chapters with a national curriculum called globalhealthU. This program engages all students, from Engineering to Business to Pre-Med majors, to leverage their cross-disciplinary diversity and build understanding around global health equity. 

We are grateful for generous contributions from donors like you, which have fostered opportunities for students, like Colin at University of Michigan, to have a space to investigate his passions and to motivate him on how to become a lifelong advocate for global health. He writes: 

The beginning of my sophomore year I was looking to make a sustainable, positive global change. I was disillusioned by well-meaning pre-med clubs which didn’t fully engage students in important conversations about the work we were doing. Then I found GlobeMed. 

Because of GlobeMed, I was able to define my true passion: ensuring no person dies from curable disease. Specifically, globalhealthU  has taken my initial passions and helped me become confident that I can lead informed conversations around global health equity and systems level change. I’m also a member of the globalhealthU working group, which empowers students to actively participate in creating a curriculum and toolkit designed to be adaptable for our needs.

These globalhealthU sessions, led by professionals and student speakers who are passionate about an ideal global society, engages all majors and lowers the barrier for students to engage in global health dialogue. It is a safe space on campus—without the threat of grades—to discuss real ideas with fellow students. globalhealthU has helped me clarify the areas I wish to understand more in depth: how the private sector can support the global health movement and the biological and cultural implications behind HIV/AIDS. 

GlobeMed has offered me amazing opportunities. I have travelled around the country and immersed myself in enlightening summits. I’ve been inspired by speakers like Leymah Gbowee, a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, or Jonathan Gruber, writer of both Obama’s and Romney’s health care insurance plans. 

GlobeMed helps students realize the power they have to shape their own educational future, which then shapes the direction of the universities in which they study. GlobeMed inspires students to investigate global health from all disciplines, follow through and do something.