Students Build Huge Network To Fight For Global Health Equity

by Mike Smith · 2009-10-11 14:41:00 UTC
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Globemed has built a big network of university students (and alumni) who partner with grassroots health organizations around the world to improve the health of the impoverished. They work with students at 19 university chapters to make a direct impact on the health of various communities, and help students to pursue wider global health aims. Whether it's designing and constructing a health center in Ghana, or helping the people of Detriot "address issues such as nutrition, diabetes, asthma, hypertension, and obesity... [and] how to prevent the illnesses which usually require primary care."

Now GlobeMed have launched imagine2030 to expand their exciting movement to 60 universities, hoping within 20 years to build a network of 30,0000 alumni and students working around the world to fight for health equity, social justice and human rights. They need your help to expand the movement.

Photo credit: Julien Harneis

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