GlobeMed @ UC
- National organization with 50+ undergraduate chapters
- Promotes social justice and global health initiatives
- Each chapter partners with a grassroots organization in another country, helping to fund their programs and sending student interns every year to visit and evaluate the partnership
- The UC chapter partners with Social Action for Women (SAW) in Mae Sot, Thailand, which helps support Burmese migrant workers in Thailand by providing medical treatment and education, basic preventative and hygiene education, and provides safehouses for women and children to escape domestic violence
- Members become educated on issues of social justice and equity, and how to critically evaluate these problems and offer creative solutions
- This skill of critical evaluation and creative solutions is widely applicable, particularly in the medical field.
- Campaigns Co-Director for 2 years (Spring 2014-Spring 2016)
- Organize fundraising campaigns to raise funds to support our partner's Community Health Outreach Program (CHOP)
- 4th Annual Benefit Dinner Co-Chair (Spring 2016-Spring 2017)
- Organize all aspects of the Benefit Dinner, the largest fundraiser for the chapter each year
- Reach out for corporate sponsorships and invite local professionals interested in social justice and global health to attend
(UHP+Discover Program (through University Honors Program)
- Promoted research opportunities in non-STEM fields
- I was accepted to work with Dr. Sarah Stitzlein, researching how pragmatist philosophy and positive psychology might be integrated on the subject of hope in order to cultivate hope in children and young adults in order to promote their becoming hopeful, powerful forces for societal reform
- Prior to this, I had never heard of pragmatist philosophy or any kind of hope theory, and it will certainly influence my future patterns of behavior
- As part of my work during the summer, I had the opportunity to publish my work in The Journal of School and Society (begin page 49) and to present at a symposium of other UHP+Discover students
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