GLOBEMED’S 10TH ANNUAL SUMMIT
A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY
WELCOME
LOOKING BACK &
MOVING FORWARD
Ten Summits ago during a wintry March weekend in 2007, the 40 students who had come together on Northwestern’s campus could not have predicted what would unfold over the coming decade. We had come together to align a vision for change with concrete strategies, and we faced many questions: How might we challenge the status quo? What is our role as students? How might students partner with leaders on the front-lines of health and social justice work? We knew we would confront huge gaps, broken systems, and our own fears and doubts, and we did. Looking back now and connecting the dots, we can point to a source of nourishment that helped us overcome steep odds: the relationships that make up this community. Martin Luther King Jr. often described ‘the beloved community’ as not only a rebuke to the violence that he confronted in his time, but also as a force with the permanent potential to transform. He reminded everyone: “The end is reconciliation; the end is redemption; the end is the creation of the Beloved Community. It is this type of spirit and this type of love that can transform opponents into friends. It is this type of understanding goodwill that will transform the deep gloom of the old age into the exuberant gladness of the new age. It is this love which will bring about miracles in the hearts of men.” The challenging work of designing strategies with partners, building teams, and searching for a sense of anchored purpose can make us feel distant from these lofty ideals. We can even dismiss these ideals as mere sentiments. But then we can remember that in some small way, GlobeMed is one version of such a beloved community. This weekend is about the celebration of this community and what it has created. Perhaps the greatest benefit of hindsight is a deep belief that we can answer new questions, which we hope will inspire the flames to create the next cascade of change. Like the students who believed in themselves and their vision ten years ago, we believe in the people in the room today and the thousands of students, partners, and alumni around the world. Thank you for being a part of GlobeMed’s beloved community.
Alyssa Smaldino, Executive Director Victor Roy, Co-Founder
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2016 GlobeMed Summit A CELEBRATION OF COMMUNITY
2 Welcome
4 GlobeMed Partnerships
6 GlobeMed’s Story
8 Schedule of Events
15 Speakers
21 GlobeMed Staff & Map
22 Sponsors
24 Thank You
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GlobeMed
PARTNERSHIPS GlobeMed connects university-based chapters with grassroots organizations in one-to-one, long-term partnerships to co-develop creative solutions to health challenges. We train students to listen and respond to the real needs of partner communities, and we create spaces for grassroots leaders to build the skills and confidence to be the lead strategists in their global partnerships. The result: a movement of 21st century leaders for global health who balance boldness with humility and compassion. Over the last ten years, 930 students have worked on-site with partner organizations, the network has raised over $2.1 million for 387 health projects, and more than 125 people have attended a GlobeMed Partner Forum in Uganda. Our partnerships are a representation of what’s possible when communities’ needs and visions are centered. We look forward to growing these opportunities to continue enhancing livelihoods and fostering relationships amidst the everevolving field of global health.
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BETHEL UNIVERSITY + RURAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, CAMBODIA BOSTON COLLEGE + CHINMAYA ORGANIZATION FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT, INDIA DARTMOUTH COLLEGE + KACHIN WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION, THAILAND EMORY UNIVERSITY + MIGRANT ASSISTANT PROGRAM FOUNDATION, THAILAND INDIANA UNIVERSITY + TRAILBLAZER FOUNDATION, CAMBODIA ST. EDWARD’S UNIVERSITY + BURMESE WOMEN’S UNION, THAILAND TUFTS UNIVERSITY + PRACTICAL HELP ACHIEVING SELF-EMPOWERMENT NEPAL, NEPAL UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI + SOCIAL ACTION FOR WOMEN, THAILAND UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO-BOULDER + HIMALAYAN HEALTHCARE, NEPAL UNIVERSITY OF DENVER + BUDDHISM FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT ACTION, CAMBODIA UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME + POPULATION EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT, LAOS UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER + SOCIAL ORG. FOR VOLUNTARY ACTION, INDIA UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA + ALTERNATIVE FOR RURAL MOVEMENT, INDIA UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA + BUILD YOUR FUTURE TODAY, CAMBODIA UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON + MINDS FOUNDATION, INDIA WHITMAN COLLEGE + BURMA HUMANITARIAN MISSION, THAILAND
- A Ten Year Story -
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ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY + ICOD ACTION NETWORK, UGANDA BROWN UNIVERSITY + UNGANO TENA, KENYA COLORADO COLLEGE + WESTERN ORGANIZATION OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS, KENYA COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY + GULU WOMEN’S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT & GLOBALIZATION, UGANDA DUKE UNIVERSITY + SHIRATI HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND DEVELOPMENT, TANZANIA GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY + SET HER FREE, UGANDA HOWARD UNIVERSITY LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY + HEALTH DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE, RWANDA MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY + HOPE THROUGH HEALTH, TOGO MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE + GARDENS FOR HEALTH INTERNATIONAL, RWANDA MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY + KNOWLEDGE FOR CHILDREN, CAMEROON NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY + KITOVU MOBILE AIDS ORGANIZATION, UGANDA NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY + ADONAI CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE, UGANDA PRINCETON UNIVERSITY + COVE ALLIANCE, UGANDA RUTGERS UNIVERSITY + CHANGE A LIFE UGANDA, UGANDA SPELMAN COLLEGE + MOREHOUSE COLLEGE + LIGHT FOR CHILDREN, GHANA UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA – LOS ANGELES + MPOMA HIV/AIDS INITIATIVE, UGANDA UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI – KANSAS CITY + KYETUME COMMUNITY-BASED HEALTH CARE PROGRAMME, UGANDA UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA + NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY + YOUNG 1OVE, BOTSWANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA + LWALA COMMUNITY ALLIANCE, KENYA UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA + SPARK MICROGRANTS, UGANDA UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON + CHILDREN OF PEACE, UGANDA WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS + UGANDA DEVELOPMENT & HEALTH ASSOCIATES, UGANDA WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY + KIGEZI HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION, UGANDA
AMHERST COLLEGE + PASTORAL DE LA SALUD, EL SALVADOR CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK + EL CENTRO DE CAPACITACIÓN CAMPESINA, PERU CORNELL UNIVERSITY + ASOCIACIÓN MAYA-MAM DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO, GUATEMALA FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY + ESCUELA DE LA CALLE, GUATEMALA GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY + PRIMEROS PASOS, GUATEMALA LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO + JAMBI HUASI, ECUADOR PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY + CHOICE HUMANITARIAN, PERU RHODES COLLEGE + AMOS HEALTH & HOPE, NICARAGUA TRUMAN STATE UNIVERSITY + MAISON DE NAISSANCE, HAITI UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO + ASOCIACIÓN DE PERSONAS AFECTADAS POR TUBERCULOSIS DEL PERÚ, PERU UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN + PERKIN EDUCATION OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION, EL SALVADOR UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS – AUSTIN + WUQU’ KAWOQ, GUATEMALA UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS – SAN ANTONIO + SACRED VALLEY HEALTH, PERU WILBUR WRIGHT CITY COLLEGE + LOGAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSN., USA
GlobeMed’s Story Evolving through critical questions
How do we build partnerships that center listening to local leaders?
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How do we build a movement of leaders for tomorrow?
2008-2009
How can our model empower grassroots leaders around the world?
2010-2012
Whose voices are still missing from global health?
2013-2014
Your imagination What have we and ideas learned from 10 years of applying social justice, human rights, and antioppression frameworks to global health?
2015-2016
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March 31
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
12:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Registration
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Opening Reception
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
GlobeMed StorySlam & Opening Keynote
Hilton Garden Inn & Margarita Inn
Woman’s Club of Evanston
2nd Floor, Woman’s Club of Evanston
We are excited to be hosting GlobeMed’s second annual StorySlam! GlobeMedders will step on stage to share their story about why they are committed to creating a more just world. The evening will conclude with special guest Dr. Abdul El-Sayed speaking about his journey to become Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department.
FEATURING:
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a public health physician and epidemiologist. He is the Health Officer for the City of Detroit and Executive Director of the Detroit Health Department under Mayor Michael E. Duggan. Previously, he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University, where he directed the Columbia University Systems Science Program and Global Research Analytics for Population Health. He has published over 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles, commentaries and book chapters, in journals including JAMA, the American Journal of Public Health, and Pediatrics. He is the recipient of numerous health policy research awards, including being named a Policy Innovator by the Carnegie Council. Dr. El-Sayed’s writings on urban health policy has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, CNN, Al-Jazeera, The Hill, Project Syndicate, and Huffington Post. In addition he has appeared as an expert commentator on local, national, and international networks.
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7:00 AM - 8:45 AM
Breakfast
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
Caucus Sessions (optional)
FR April 1
Hilton Garden Inn & Margarita Inn Breakout Rooms, Hilton Garden Inn
*See insert, “Delegate Packet”, in delegate folder for details
A caucus is a space for facilitated discussion around a shared experience or identity. All caucuses are opportunities to learn from each other about how systemic oppression acts as an obstacle to building a diverse and inclusive movement.
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
10 Years of GlobeMed: Our Shared History
North Shore Conference Room, Hilton Garden Inn VICTOR ROY, GlobeMed Co-Founder ALYSSA SMALDINO, GlobeMed Executive Director
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Communities in Action
North Shore Conference Room, Hilton Garden Inn Today's global health challenges are increasingly complex. These three short panels will highlight how our partners, alumni, and peers are working to tackle these challenges through different approaches.
Fostering Inclusive Communities
Advocacy Across Borders
Advancing Community Collaboration
SADIA NAWAB Inner-City Muslim Action Network
ANUPA GEWALI Adhikaar
DEDO BARANSHAMAJE Segal Family Foundation
DR. HTIN ZAW Social Action for Women Moderated by:
REV. PERRY DOUGHERTY Still Harbor
DR. JEAN CLAUDE MUGUNGA Partners in Health Moderated by:
SUBHA VARMA PATHIAL CORD USA
DR. DAVID PARAJÓN AMOS Health & Hope Moderated by:
MARY MIKHAIL GHETS
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FR April 1
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Lunch
Downtown Evanston Enjoy lunch with newfound friends around Evanston.
1:30 PM - 3:45 PM
#GlobeMed2030: Reimagining the Future
North Shore Conference Room, Hilton Garden Inn What could GlobeMed look like in 2030? International chapters with domestic partners? A virtual learning platform? An organization advocating for transformative justice? During this session, we'll envision potentially radical futures for the network and discuss how our community can address the world's most pressing needs in the next 15 years.
3:45 PM - 4:45 PM
Small Group Reflection
Breakout Rooms, Hilton Garden Inn
*See insert, “Delegate Packet�, in delegate folder for details
This time will be used to reflect and connect with GlobeMed delegates on the themes and questions posed throughout the day.
4:45 PM - 6:00 PM
Break
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Delegate Dinner
North Shore Conference Room, Hilton Garden Inn Join us for pizza, salad, and games!
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7:00 AM - 8:45 AM 8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
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Breakfast
Hilton Garden Inn & Margarita Inn
April 2
Caucus Sessions (optional)
Breakout Rooms, Hilton Garden Inn
*See insert, “Delegate Packet�, in delegate folder for details
9:00 AM - 9:45 AM
Expanding Your Network Atrium, Hilton Garden Inn
During this networking event, delegates will have the opportunity to interact on a personal level with Summit speakers, GlobeMed alumni, partners and local leaders. From this session, we hope that delegates will learn about opportunities to remain involved in global health and social justice in the future.
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
21st Century Leadership for Global Health
North Shore Conference Room, Hilton Garden Inn
What does it take to be a 21st century leader for global health? This panel will draw from experts in the business, government, and non-profit sectors to examine how individuals can harness their passion to be effective changemakers in the 21st century. From this discussion, we hope that our students will be able to better understand global health leadership in action and how they can begin to develop skills to change the status quo.
FEATURING:
MAYA COHEN School for Ethics & Global Leadership Moderator
DR. JACOB GAYLE Medtronic
ANIL PARAJULI Himalayan HealthCare
DR. SHARON RUDY Global Health Fellows Program II
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SA April 2
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Small Group Reflection
Breakout Rooms, Hilton Garden Inn
*See insert, “Delegate Packet”, in delegate folder for details
This time will be used to reflect and connect with GlobeMed delegates on the themes and questions posed throughout the day.
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Lunch
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Discovery Dialogues
Downtown Evanston Hilton Garden Inn
These opt-in sessions allow each delegate to customize their Summit experience with a chance to discuss & discover topics relevant to them and their career trajectories. We hope to provide a space for members of the GlobeMed community to share skills and conversations through a meaningful platform.
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Digital Tools for Health Equity | North Shore Conference Room
In this hands-on session, two leading practitioners (including a GlobeMed alumna) will introduce open source and freely available global health technologies. Discussing common use cases, implementation pitfalls and the danger of ‘one size fits all’ solutions, we’ll frame these technologies as ‘digital tools’ for health equity. Through a fun, hands-on group competition (the marshmallow challenge!) we’ll also explore methods for designing and implementing technology projects for particular local health systems. Drawing on the experiences of Medic Mobile, we’ll offer practical perspective on human centered approaches to prototyping and iteration in situations of complexity, constrained resources and imperfect information.
ISAAC HOLEMAN Medic Mobile 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
JILL SHAH Medic Mobile
Cross-Sector Careers | Grill Room
This “TED Style” session will bring together GlobeMed alumni working in three completely different fields, but all contributing to the advancement of social justice in some way. Each speaker will discuss their work and then all three speakers will come together to discuss the collaborative nature of social justice work. We hope that through this session students understand that any major, concentration, or profession can play a role in achieving global health equity.
BIANCA NGUYEN Tufts University School of Medicine Moderator
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JAMIE CARTWRIGHT Weidert Group Inc.
DOMINIQUE HAZZARD DC Greens
CINDY SUI Clarity Campaign Labs
Discovery Dialogues (continued)
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Hilton Garden Inn
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Leveraging Your GlobeMed Experience | Grill Room
In the process of applying to global health jobs, fellowships or graduate programs? This session will help GlobeMedders craft application materials to be reflective of their unique GlobeMed experience. Discuss what stands out in an application and how to articulate your chapter experience in under 2 minutes!
DR. JESSICA EVERT Child Family Health International 3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
ANGELINA GORDON MARIBEL SIERRA STACY TERRELL Global Health Fellows Program II
The Spirit of Compassion and Resilience | Board Room
The extended periods of stress, grief, or trauma often experienced in the fields of social justice service or activism have the potential to challenge or compromise our health and ability to serve others well. At times, the impact of such challenges may cause us to develop unhealthy coping mechanisms or drive us to want to abandon our calling. To sustain a commitment to service and activism over the long-term calls on the strength of our compassion and resilience, both of which can be cultivated if they are given the appropriate time, value, and attention.
REV. PERRY DOUGHERTY Still Harbor
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Bigger than Cops | North Shore Conference Room
In a conversation facilitated by an active community organizer Damon A. Williams, prepare to expand the conversation from the typical media cycle around racial justice to a broader discussion about structural oppression and injustice. In order to highlight the need for organized resistance, “Bigger than Cops� will help delegates express the urgency and magnitude of the challenge we currently face in the United States.
DAMON A. WILLIAMS Black Youth Project 100 & #LetUsBreath Collective
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SA April 2
Discovery Dialogues (continued) Hilton Garden Inn
2:00 PM - 3:50 PM
A Lifelong Commitment to Social Justice | Lakeshore Room A
Through the GlobeMed chapter experience, we hope to cultivate lifelong, curiosity-driven leaders for global health and social justice. Across our network, the passion to tackle global injustice is strong, the road is long and can often feel daunting. From this session we hope to discuss what it takes maintain a commitment to social justice work across each new decade and accompanying challenges.
DR. BADI FOSTER The Buffett Institute for Global Studies 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM
Human-Centered Design | Lakeshore Room B
Every change to an organization comes with a certain amount of risk. For social impact sector leaders looking to innovate, this hands-on session takes participants through a toolkit of strategies for lowering risk when taking new ideas from concept to reality. You will start with your own existing problem (related to either internal operations or external programming), then generate ideas for improvement that can be tested in the workshop in order to kickstart the idea’s development. The end result is a mindshift away from costly pilots and towards quick, iterative cycles of learning and change.
GEORGE AYE The Greater Good Studio
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Organizational Think Tanks
Breakout Rooms, Hilton Garden Inn
*See insert, “Delegate Packet”, in delegate folder for details
Through case studies and group discussions, chapter members will identify common pain points, brainstorm ideas, and share best practices in order to strengthen their chapter programs.
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Alumni + Senior Reception John Evans Alumni Center
Graduating GlobeMed students will join current alumni for a reception to celebrate their time as a chapter member and learn how they can stay connected to the network.
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Closing Dinner Crystal Ballroom
KEYNOTES Maya Cohen is Assistant Director and English teacher at The School for Ethics and Global Leadership (SEGL) in Washington, D.C. SEGL provides high school juniors who represent the diversity of the United States with the best possible opportunity to shape themselves into ethical leaders who create positive change in our world. Before SEGL, Maya was the Executive Director of GlobeMed from 2011 to 2014. Under her leadership, GlobeMed grew from 32 to 55 chapters, reaching 2,000 students and supporting health projects on 4 continents. She first joined GlobeMed as a student at Barnard College, collaborating with Northern Uganda human rights activists to improve the lives of families displaced by the LRA conflict. Graduating summa cum laude from Barnard College in 2010 with a degree in English, she believes in the power of stories to challenge, to teach, and to inspire empathy.
Dr. Jacob Gayle is the Vice President of Medtronic Philanthropy, leading the philanthropic and community affairs programs of Medtronic, Inc. Dr. Gayle has a distinguished career in international public health and diplomacy that has spanned three decades and several of the world’s leading health, development and philanthropic institutions, including Deputy Vice President of the Ford Foundation, Senior Public Health Officer for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and various other health and social development roles with USAID, United Nations, World Bank and Carter Center. United States citizen by birth, Dr. Gayle celebrates his global citizenship overall, including his strong ties to the Caribbean.
As a teenager, Anil Parajuli often accompanied his father, an epidemiologist, to far-flung villages to stamp out disease, treat injuries, and deliver vaccines. Years later, after attending medical school, he started a trekking business for foreign tourists, traveling once again to the same remote areas. On these treks, porters would request medical supplies, and offer to carry up to twenty kilos of medicine to distribute to their villages. Through his nonprofit organization, Himalayan HealthCare, he leads foreign doctors–most are clients from Europe or the United States–to villages high in the Himalaya. To date, Anil and his staff have run treks where they have trained more than 120 foreign doctors, nurses, and volunteers. More than 16,000 people have been treated, and over 18 tons of free medicines have been dispensed. He also sees that the treks help build trust with communities, a trust that allows initiatives in education, family planning, and income generation. Dr. Sharon Rudy, BCC, is Program Director for the Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP) II at the Public Institute (PHI). In her previous role as Faculty/Senior Program Officer in the Center for Communication Programs at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Dr. Rudy spent almost a decade working in Anglophone Africa designing, implementing and evaluating national behavior change communication programs and client-provider interaction interventions. She then worked in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia implementing performance improvement and training programs through IntraHealth, then based at the Medical School of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Rudy holds a PhD in Counseling and Organizational Consulting.
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SPEAKERS George Aye is deeply committed to using human-centered design to help the lives of people in need. He is a co-founder and Principal at Greater Good Studio. Previously, he spent 7 years at global innovation firm IDEO before being hired as the first human-centered designer at the Chicago Transit Authority. Since founding the studio, he has worked across multiple social issue spectrum from autism, criminal justice, public health, education and healthcare. With his co-founder, Sara Cantor Aye, was awarded the TED Prize in 2012, listed among the world’s leading social innovators in the Public Interest Design 100 list. Their studio’s work has been included in the Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook in 2015 and two upcoming social innovation books in 2016. George is an Adjunct Full Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches social innovation. He is a frequent speaker and workshop facilitator. George received his bachelors in Engineering from Bournemouth University, UK. Dedo Baranshamaje is Segal Family Foundation’s Director of Special Projects. He is a social enterprise and social justice advocate. He was born and raised in Burundi. He graduated from Uganda Martyrs University with a major in Ethics and Development studies, where he founded several student organizations aimed at social justice during his time there. In 2011-12, Dedo was a Global Health Corps fellow. He worked with PSI/Burundi on condom social marketing and communication. Dedo has over five years’ experience working in East African development and non-profit management. He has focused his career on creating innovative and balanced systems of story-telling behavior and attitudinal change surrounding issues of Africa’s non-profit sector, education, and social change. In his free time, Dedo loves dancing, traveling, adventure, cooking, and activities engaging the youth and other minorities. Jamie Cartwright was a leader of GlobeMed at Lawrence University through 2014. Since 2012, he’s volunteered with the Global Headquarters as a freelance designer and marketing resource. In 2015-2016, Jamie and fellow GlobeMed alumnus Jason Pace started GlobeMed Voices, a platform designed to foster alumni storytelling and increase engagement. Jamie is also the marketing manager at Weidert Group, a B2B inbound marketing agency based in Wisconsin, where his responsibilities include demand planning, online content creation, and marketing service development. In a break from school in 2013, he worked at Timmy Global Health in Tena, Ecuador, where he planned mobile health and community mapping projects and conducted ethnographic research on CHWs in the Napo river valley. Rev. Perry Dougherty is the Executive Director of Still Harbor and Editor of Anchor magazine. She has a background in corporate training and development as well as non-profit development, communications, and management. Perry brings an informed perspective on social justice, pedagogy, and learning, which she studied at Washington University in St. Louis in receiving her bachelor’s degree in Social Thought and Analysis with a specialization in the Sociology of Education. Perry is a spiritual director and ordained Interfaith Minister. She brings her personal interests together through her service by exploring where creative expression and narrative meet spirituality and social justice. Dr. Jessica Evert is Executive Director of Child Family Health International (CFHI) and Faculty in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a graduate of the Ohio State University College of Medicine and an advocate for health-related international education quality and ethical standards. Dr. Evert is author and editor of multiple chapters, articles, and books with a focus on global health education, ethics, and asset-based engagement, including: 1) Developing Global Health Programming: A Guidebook for Medical and Professional Schools, 2nd Ed, 2) Global Health Training in Graduate Medical Education, 2nd Ed, and 3) Reflection in Global Health: An Anthology.
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SPEAKERS Dr. Badi Foster has an extremely varied background, extending from higher education and nonprofits to the corporate world and federal government. Born in Chicago, Foster spent his adolescent years in Morocco. He earned his bachelors degree in international relations at the University of Denver and received his PhD in Politics from Princeton University. As a Fulbright fellow, his doctoral research focused on the impact of rapid urbanization in Africa. Foster has held several positions at Harvard University, including Director of Field Experience Program, Graduate School of Education and Assistant Director of the Kennedy Institute of Politics. Foster has also held teaching positions at Princeton University, Rutgers, and the University of Massachusetts. He currently serves on the Advisory Council to the Joan Kroc Center for International Peace Studies at Notre Dame University. He is a Fellow at the W.E.B. Dubois Institute of African and African American Studies at Harvard University where he continues work on his book length manuscript on leadership and organizational change in the fight against anti Black and anti American Indian racism (1911-2011). Anupa Gewali works for the Queens, NY based organization, Adhikaar, which advances immigration justice, workers’ rights and access to healthcare for the rapidly growing Nepali and Tibetan speaking communities in New York. Adhikaar has been at the center of significant organizing victories to pass legislation for Domestic Workers and Nail Salon Workers and has recovered thousands in cases of stolen wages. Most recently Adhikaar led the successful campaign for Temporary Protected Status for Nepali nationals in the US unable to return to Nepal after the massive April/May earthquakes in 2015. At Adhikaar, Anupa is responsible for building and strengthening the organization’s communications and development capacity. Previously, Anupa worked as a Program Director at GlobeMed HQ for 3 years. Before that she was part of an amazing founding team for the University of Rochester GlobeMed chapter. She majored in Public Health and Journalism, focusing her research on tobacco cessation efforts and addiction in Ladakh, India, primarily with women and youth. Angelina Gordon is Director of Communications, Outreach, and Diversity at the Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP) II, and oversees the strategic project-wide communications and engagement strategy. She leads the project’s outreach and diversity efforts by producing activities and materials for specific audiences, including underserved communities and those underrepresented in global health. She previously served as Knowledge Management Specialist with the Feed the Future (FTF) Global Initiative, as well as Senior Specialist in Knowledge Management & Documentation with Save the Children US. As Save’s Learning expert, Angelina developed the agency’s first Knowledge Management strategy and monitoring, evaluation accountability, and learning (MEAL) framework currently being implemented across 11 Save the Children members. She holds an MA in International Development Policy from Georgetown University. Dominique Hazzard is a member of the GlobeMed Board of Directors, and the former GlobeMed Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator. Dominique is currently the Outreach Specialist at DC Greens, where she connects low-income District of Columbia residents with fresh local food and creates avenues for community advocacy. After her paid workday is done, she builds community power with BYP100, a group of young black people organizing for black liberation across the country. And after that? Dominique tries to change hearts and minds by tweeting, posting, and blogging about racial, economic, and environmental justice as much as possible. Dominique graduated from Wellesley College in 2012.
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SPEAKERS Isaac Holeman is a designer-researcher striving for global health equity. As a social scientist and a co-founder of the non-profit tech company Medic Mobile, his work is about seeing complex health systems from the perspective of the poor and marginalized, and responding pragmatically. He practices human centered design and conducts ethnographic research with Medic Mobile, as a fellow of the University of Edinburgh’s Global Health Academy and as a Gates Cambridge Scholar in innovation, strategy and organization. You can follow him on Twitter @isaacholeman, or learn more about his research and TEDx talks at www.isaacholeman.org. Mary Mikhail joined GHETS in May 2014. Prior to her time at GHETS, she coordinated and developed community health projects in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. These projects addressed WASH (Water and Sanitation), chronic disease prevention and management, Community Health Worker training, nutrition, and innovative hydroponic gardening methods. She also worked with the American Diabetes Association (ADA) to develop a diagnostic and educational tool, Passport to Health, for immigrant and minority populations suffering from Type II Diabetes. Her work with GHETS involves facilitating cost-effective and sustainable strategies in projects relating to health workforce development, women’s health, occupational health, and advocacy in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Mary holds a BA in Public Health Policy from the University of California, Irvine and a Masters in Public Health in Global Health Program Design, Monitoring, and Evaluation from the George Washington University. Dr. Jean Claude Mugunga is the Manager of Monitoring, Evaluation and Quality Improvement at Partners in Health, where he supports various PIH programs assessing whether said programs are making a measureable difference. He has been deeply involved in social justice and health equity advocacy for the past decade. First, as one of the leading members of the Rwanda Village Concept Project, an international student-led organization that formed one of earliest partnerships with GlobeMed under his leadership. Dr. Mugunga received his medical degree from the University of Rwanda and a MS in International Health Policy and Management from Brandeis University. He has abroad working experience in different sectors and countries; as a clinician at public facilities Rwanda, then as a researcher for the Overseas Development Institute, on a team that studied the delivery of public goods including health care in Africa. Sadia Nawab has always been intrigued to understand people of diverse backgrounds. She has a strong track record of service to others in the medical field, international philanthropy administration focused on orphaned youth and, most recently, through facilitating youth programs through IMAN (Inter-City Muslim Action Network) on the southside of Chicago. Sadia uses art to creatively foster relationships between disconnected people with the vision of a less stratified world. As an artist known as ‘Ms. DiJa’, she uses DJing to transcend borders, generations and faiths by promoting dignity and positive values with conscious lyrics and uplifting beats. Sadia is a proud mother of a 2-year-old. Bianca Nguyen Bianca Nguyen is an MD/MPH candidate at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. Believing there is no health without mental health, she will start her residency in Psychiatry this fall with interests in correctional health, global mental health, integrated care and addiction medicine. Prior to medical school, she worked as Director of Development for the GlobeMed National Office in Evanston, IL. Bianca received a B.S. in Radiologic Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is a co-founder of the GlobeMed at UNC-Chapel Hill chapter.
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SPEAKERS Dr. David G. Parajón attended medical school at Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, trained in internal medicine at the University of New Mexico Medical Center in Albuquerque, and trained in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. He and his wife Laura, a family practitioner, have been living and working in rural health care in Nicaragua since 2001. They are the co-directors of AMOS Health and Hope, a non-profit organization that trains, supports and works alongside health promoters and health committees in 27 rural Nicaraguan communities to reduce infant and maternal deaths and promote health using a community-based empowerment approach. Subha Varma Pathial works as computer security and vulnerability consultant and has worked for more than 10 years at Intel. She serves as the Secretary and Director for CORD USA, a secular, non-profit organization that aims to help communities create sustainable social help programs to aid in the holistic welfare of local communities and in India. Mrs. Pathial manages CORD USA’s digital presence, outreach efforts, and communications. She actively collaborates with CORD India regarding outreach and fundraising strategies to expand the growth and reach of the organization. Mrs. Pathial’s commitment to social justice is further exemplified by her commitment to Juliette’s House, a children’s abuse prevention and intervention center in Oregon, where she serves as a board member working on a strategic long-term planning and budgeting. In her spare time, Mrs. Pathial enjoys photography, painting, and spending time her husband, two boys, dog, and koi fish. Victor Roy is a scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of health, innovation, and learning. As an undergraduate student at Northwestern, Victor Roy studied political science and co-founded GlobeMed, serving as GlobeMed’s first Executive Director and later on the Board of Directors until 2012. Currently, he is a PhD candidate in sociology and political economy at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, where he is writing his doctoral dissertation on how markets, states, and financial institutions shape biomedical innovation and epidemic response. At Cambridge he directs Learning for Purpose, a program to support graduate students in developing cross-cutting skills for social impact. He is an MD candidate at Northwestern University as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, and has served clinically in Chicago, West Bengal, and Cape Town. Jill Shah is the Partnerships Associate at Medic Mobile, a nonprofit technology company that builds mobile and web tools to help community health workers reach everyone. Previously, she worked as a consultant at Vera Solutions in Bombay, designing and building data tools for social impact organizations. Jill holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Northwestern University and is currently based out of New York City.
Maribel Sierra is the Communications and Outreach Assistant for the Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP) II. In this role, she creates communications materials and manages the program’s social media platforms to draw talented and diverse professionals to GHFPII’s wide ranging career opportunities in global health. Maribel has previously worked with diverse groups through her experience as an organizer at the non-profit organization Clean Water for North Carolina, and as research assistant at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s (UNC-CH) School of Medicine. Maribel holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology and Spanish from UNC Chapel Hill.
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SPEAKERS Cindy Sui was a part of GlobeMed at the University of Chicago through all four years of college, eventually becoming a Co-President during her third and fourth years. After graduating college in 2014, she took her values and her creative initiative into the intersection of data and politics. She is now a data analyst at Clarity Campaign Labs in Washington D.C., a modeling, analytics, research and polling firm whose clients this election cycle include the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the Democratic Governor’s Association (DGA). Cindy can talk about data or values-driven leadership or personal authenticity all day. Stacy Terrell is the Lead, Diversity and Communications for the Global Health Fellows Program II where she serves as subject matter expert and internal program resource on how to build inclusiveness into all GHFP-II participant-focused activities. Prior to joining GHFP-II Stacy worked for USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives providing operational support to short-term development contingency operations activities in the field. She received her MA in International Affairs from American University and her BA in International Development from The George Washington University where her research focused on inclusion of AfroLatino populations in political spaces. Damon A. Williams is a community producer, organizer, radio host, hip-hop performance artist, actor, teacher and public speaker from the south side of Chicago. Damon serves as the co-chair of BYP 100 Chicago’s chapter, a national political organization comprised of Black youth ages 18-35. He is also the co-director of the #LetUsBreathe Collective, an artistic activist organization birthed out of supply trips to support the Ferguson protests in resistance to the murder of Mike Brown. Williams and #LetUsBreathe transplanted the experiences from the front lines and began organizing direct actions and community enrichment events throughout the streets of Chicago, with the mission of service to underprivileged people and creatively disrupting the anti-black racist status quo. Dr. Htin Zaw is a community health care provider who has spent the last thirty five years working inside his country, Burma, to improve community health for children and women. He is a physician, clinical director for community mental health workers, public health promoter and educator. In 2004, he founded and worked as Country Director in Burma for The Ruby Flora, a non-governmental organization in four South East Asian countries organized to strengthen community-based organizations providing health care, education and psychosocial support for people living with HIV/AIDS and their caregivers. His focus has been on working with local community health workers to address the medical and psychosocial problems of adults and children affected by HIV/AIDS. For the last 9 years, he has provided individual and group clinical supervision for program managers, project coordinators, community health workers, and mental health workers working in communitybased NGOs throughout Thailand.
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GLOBEMED STAFF Alyssa Smaldino, Executive Director Alexis Barnes, Director of Learning & Training Priya Fremerman, Director of Operational Systems Caroline Nguyen, Director of Communications Shengxiao Yu, Director of Partnerships Parth Joshi, Event Operations Associate Brittany Zelch, Chapter Support Associate Rosalind Dillon, Consultant - Event Operations
Summit Priya Garigipati Jamil Mirabito Rajan Negassa Partnerships Neha Reddy Communications Amanda Blazek Nick Garbaty Sakhile Richards
Organizational Advancement Heather Deng Chapter Support Suhas Penukonda Neil Thivalapill Abhi Veerina
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THANK YOU! An immense thank you to all our supporters who made the 2016 GlobeMed Summit a possibility! We would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Northwestern University for being our home, and for its crucial support of the GlobeMed Summit. We offer special thanks to the Buffett Institute for Global Studies, the Office of the President and Provost, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the International Program Development, the School of Education and Social Policy, the Medill School of Journalism, the McCormick School of Engineering, Feinberg School of Medicine, and Pritzker School of Law for their generosity. Also, we offer warm thanks to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Global Health Fellows Program II. Through our partnership with GHFP-II, GlobeMed has been able to continue removing barriers for talented students of all backgrounds to join the movement for global health equity. Together, we are equipping a generation of change-makers that reflects the diversity of the American people. We give heartfelt thanks to the AbbVie Foundation and the Abbott Fund for their ongoing support of GlobeMed. Through their generosity, we have developed from a concept to a global network of students, organizations, and communities united in our common belief that health is a human right. From all those whose lives have been touched by GlobeMed’s work, thank you. Finally, thank you to our incredible network of students, alumni, and partner organizations who have traveled from around the world to be here this weekend. Each year, you bring the power of the Summit to life. As we wrap up this year’s Summit, as well as the first ten years of GlobeMed, we look forward to many more years of collaboration, community and celebration. Together, we can build a global community in which every person has the chance to live a healthy and dignified life. With warmth, gratitude, and excitement for the future, Alyssa Smaldino Executive Director
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