GlobeMed at Truman State University

Meet the new 2014-2015 Exec Board! Congratulations!

GHAW comes to a close today with Haitian Celebration on the Mall from 11:30-2:30! It's only $3 for all-you-can-eat DELICIOUS Haitian beans and rice! Don't miss out!

Tonight is the Rural Health Panel! It will be held in the Sub Alumni Room from 8-9PM.

Come learn about the challenges in rural health
communities from the first-hand experiences of
various Kirksville professionals.

GHAW continues today with two great events! Here is the line up -

Clinic on the Quad: 10:30am-2:30pm at Quad; come see
info on global health disparities in every health field
and volunteer to participate in free health
assessments

Documentary “ Yesterday” by South African filmmaker
Daryl James Roodt: 7pm-9:30pm at Baldwin Hall Little
Theater. A documentary on a poor, young HIV-positive mother struggling to raise her daughter alone in a desolate
landscape, while coming to terms with her imminent
death from AIDS.

Global Health Action Week is here!

Don't forget the Candle Vigil for Global Poverty is tonight from 7-7:30PM at Kirk Memorial!

Global Health Action Week starts tomorrow with a Candle Vigil for Global Poverty. Bring your own candle down to Kirk Memorial at 7-7:30PM and join in the fight to end global poverty!

Happy World Day of Social Justice! We asked our campus to consider the question: “We are all connected by...”. To see what they said as well as explore what the rest of the GlobeMed network did, check out www.globemed.org/wdsj.

World Day of Social Justice | GlobeMed To celebrate world day of social justice in 2013, we asked our network to challenge their campus to think about social justice. By posing a simple question or fill in the blank statement and capturing photos of people with their responses, GlobeMed chapters across the country ignited new conversatio...

“The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
What does this quote mean to you?

For the 2011 WDSJ celebration - GlobeMed at Rhodes College asked their campus to fill in the blank
“Everyone deserves ___”.

Stay tuned for the launch of a page on the GlobeMed website that showcases all of the WDSJ projects around the network, including ours.

Last year, GlobeMed at UT-Austin asked students "Which social injustice would you TRASH?" and had them write their answers on pieces of trash to prompt discussion about the need for awareness and solidarity.

Celebrate World Day of Social Justice with us on Feb 20! Engage your campus. Challenge your world.

This photo is from the 2010 WDSJ celebration - GlobeMed at Loyola University Chicago made this beautiful banner and walked around downtown Chicago with it, stopping people on the street to ask them about social justice.

February 20th is the UN’s declared World Day of Social Justice! The GlobeMed network is celebrating by challenging our peers to question injustice. We’re asking "We are all connected by...". How would you respond?

Learn more about World Day of Social Justice here: http://www.un.org/en/events/socialjusticeday/

World Day of Social Justice, 20 February "Let us work together to balance the global economy and build a new social contract for the 21st century. Let us chart a development path that leads to greater social justice and the future we want."