The Global Health Action Committee (GHAC) is a group which focuses on advocacy and action for global health disparities. We work on issues that are personally important to team members, often involving fundraising and programming to raise awareness about problems that GHAC members have witnessed firsthand or feel particularly passionate about resolving. We also work with the national AMSA global health team on currently relevant action items and projects.
In the past, GHAC has slept in the parking lot of City Hall to raise awareness about the children soldiers in Uganda, established a student exchange program between medical students in Ann Arbor and Ghana, and fundraised to purchase a laptop for an underserved elementary school in Ghana.
This year, GHAC hopes to work with national AMSA as well as work with other organizations on campus interested in issues regarding global health, such as Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM), Physicians for Human Rights, (PHR), and Student Alliance for Global Reach (SAGR). Members of GHAC may work together to write for Global Pulse, AMSA's International Health Journal.
Also, in recent months, the board of UMich AMSA has been working hard to bring IFMSA bilateral exchanges to Michigan, a unique program where students can go internationally to a partnering medical school for a clinical rotation or research experience, in exchange of helping host another student here. More on this to come!
Come join our team, apply your global perspective, and learn how to make a difference within and beyond our nation's borders.--------------------
One of AMSA-GHAC's current missions is compile a list of activities related to (albeit nebulous tag of ) global health. With our paths often crossing, we would like to help set up a way for us to all be aware of other events and projects - coordinate collaborative efforts instead of overlapping each other's themes.
We have created a google-calendar that you can plug into your own google-calendar so you are always aware of when these events happen.
Instructions to add the calendar to your own google calendar:1) In your gmail account, open the "calendar" tab in the left top corner (yeah this step should not be a surprise)
2) In the left column of your calendar, there is a box for "Other calendars" Click the button for "Add" at the bottom
3) Select "Add by URL" 4) In the URL box, paste the following address:
http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/lbr02h54aivqskkv363km0o538%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics and click "add calendar"
5) Events compiled on this calendar should show up on your own! voila!
* If you ever want to hide this calendar from view, you can click on its listing in "Other calendars" and it will all disappear.
*If you are planning an event and would like info about it publically available on the calendar, please email Yorgos (yorgos@umich.edu) with the time,date, purpose, etc. magically, it will appear in everyone's google calendar shortly thereafter :-)