ABOUT US
GlobeMed aims to strengthen the movement for global health equity by empowering students and communities to work together to improve the health of people living in poverty around the world. GlobeMed at the University of South Carolina was founded in 2012, We are one of the 50 GlobeMed chapters working to improve the health of people living in poverty around the world. We partner with Alternative for Rural Movement (ARM), a grassroots organization in Orissa, India, to empower and develop the village people of North Orissa, with emphasis on women, children, and Dalit communities.Established in 2007, GlobeMed is a student-driven non-profit organization committed to building a movement to improve global health.
There are currently 50 university chapters throughout the nation that are partnered with non-governmental grassroots organizations in countries throughout Africa, Asia, North America, and South America.These chapters have been forces in making sustainable impacts in their partner communities and in spurring development
of new global health programs and curricula on their college campuses. Each chapter works to improve the health of people living in poverty around the world by focusing on basic foundations such as nutrition, water, sanitation, hygiene, maternal health, and communicable disease prevention.
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