​GlobeMed at Berkeley Solidarity Statement


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​GlobeMed at Berkeley stands in solidarity with the Black community.

As a global health organization, we acknowledge that systemic racism is one of the most deeply rooted public health issues in our society. Our vision of a world with global health equity cannot be fulfilled without addressing the congenital matters of institutional, structural, interpersonal, and internalized racism, encompassing issues such as white supremacy, police brutality, overt and covert racism, color blindness, and anti-Blackness—all which only exacerbate the disparity of livelihood and health of the Black community. It is our responsibility to utilize our privilege in listening to, validating, and elevating Black voices in order to enact systemic change to our governing bodies and policing systems. We pledge to continually be self-critical and strive towards becoming effective allies in order to create a safer campus, and ultimately, society free of racial injustice and inequity.
Please read our full statement, along with a non-exhaustive list of petitions, organizations to donate to, articles, books, and media that we have compiled, here: https://tinyurl.com/GlobeMedatBerkeleySolidarity.

Who We Are

Founded in 2016, GlobeMed at Berkeley is a student-led organization dedicated to working for global health equity through partnership, advocacy, and critical reflection. We aim to support grassroots movements led by local people working to improve the health conditions of their communities. To this end, we work in partnership with Dhulikhel Hospital in Nepal, a community-based nonprofit organization. Our projects are co-developed with the communities they serve and have included promoting pesticide-use awareness among farmers; water sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition (WASH) for schoolchildren; and a women's health initiative. Through partnership, discussion, advocacy, and education, we work to disband the systems of oppression and give power to resource-extracted communities with the goal of addressing global health disparities.

Grassroots On-Site Work (GROW)

GlobeMed at Berkeley works in partnership with Dhulikhel Hospital in Nepal, a nonprofit community-based hospital that serves a primarily high poverty and rural demographic of 1.9 million people through its numerous outreach centers.  Each summer, members representing GlobeMed at Berkeley take part on the Grassroots On-Site Work (GROW) internship. Students who partake in this fieldwork have the opportunity to gain firsthand experiences in the work of global health solidarity, build relationships with community members and staff, and help carry out the projects that the rest of the GlobeMed at Berkeley team works to support remotely throughout the school-year.

Photos from past GROW Internships
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GROW 2018 Interns at a community school where the DH-GlobeMed Water Sanitation and Hygiene project was conducted.
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The 2017 GROW team with colleagues at Dhulikhel Hospital.
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The 2019 GROW team with colleagues at Dhulikhel Hospital and representatives from Days for Girls Nepal displaying a poster for a joint project in menstrual health.
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GlobeMed at Berkeley student discussing work with the leader of the local women's group.
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A local farmer demonstrating to GROW Interns how she sprays her crops with pesticides.

Global Health University (ghU) Discussions

Action and critical reflection

As our work goes on, it is important for us to step back and reflect in order to avoid replicating historic structures of oppression in global health. Through weekly Global Health University (ghU) discussions, we strive to create a space for members to critically discuss global health dynamics at large and in the context of our own work. We hope that by catalyzing critical thinking among our member base, we build the foundation for the next generation of global health leaders who can go on to continue the work of decolonizing global health.
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Public ghUs are hosted on the UC Berkeley campus to engage the greater campus community on important issues of global health and social justice.

The Global Health Soapbox
 A GlobeMed at Berkeley Blog

HEAR FROM THE CHAPTER — ORIGINAL THOUGHTS & OPINIONS ON RELEVANT PUBLIC HEALTH ISSUES

Senior Spotlight: Jack Fukushima, ghU Coordinator

Yes, we must act because it’s right and there’s no time to lose, but we must also develop deeper understandings of the people, the place, and most importantly ourselves if we do not want to perpetuate existing dynamics of power to the detriment of the communities we hope to serve. We were searching for an organization that understood this fundamentally. We found it in GlobeMed. 
- Jack Fukushima, Class of 2018

Upcoming Events

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Recruitment

We look for new members at the beginning of each semester to join us in our fight for health justice! Like our Facebook page or follow us on Instagram or Twitter to get updates on when we are recruiting.

The GlobeMed Network

GlobeMed at Berkeley makes up one of the many student-led organizations across the world that are a part of the larger GlobeMed network. To find and support your university's GlobeMed chapter, go to www.globemed.org.