2012 GlobeMed HillTop Global Health ConferenceNovember 9-11, 2012 • Columbia University • New York, New York

It is our honor to host HillTop for a second year, and we hope that you will depart from this conference with the renewed purpose and motivation that every GlobeMed event inspires. Last year’s HillTop was centered around the theme of partnership, and brought together over 100 students from across the Northeast. Last spring, the 2012 Summit expanded upon this theme, leaving GlobeMedders with a clear understanding of how and why partnership will carry an idea from compassion into sustainable action. This fall, the theme for HillTop is, “From Person to Person: The Ripple E!ect of Grassroots Mobilization.” Here, we hope to will use this the core value of solidarity as a framework to examine what makes our the GlobeMed network and model, both here and abroad, so e!ective. Grassroots and community-based action are what drives both our individual university GlobeMed chapters and our partner organizations towards sustainable, meaningful change. fuel a movement. As students, as community workers, and as individuals, we all function as advocates for change among our peers and as vocal spokespeople for global health equity. This message may perhaps begin to disseminate slowly, but will radiate broadly throughout our community, then to our neighboring communities, until a movement is born from the ground up.

This November, we seek to examine more deeply the theoretical and practical implications of GlobeMed’s parallel grassroots movements –the grassroots activism on campus and the community-based work of our partner organizations- to realize our shared goal of global health equity. Through a weekend of discussions, workshops, and professional insights, we will discover novel and underutilized skills that can push our movement forward. Although we are non-professionals, we can still be passionate and vocal advocates for an ideological paradigm shift, and support our partner organizations as drivers of change in their own communities. At Columbia’s 2012 HillTop, we aim to understand how we can fully exploit our power and, with a single seed, spread our vision of global health equity throughout the world.

We hope you continue to sow seeds of change through pragmatic solidaritywherever your journey takes you.

Dear friends,

With hope,

2012 GlobeMed HillTop Team Isabelle, Katie, Alex, Conner, Diane, Kathryn, and Sarah

Welcome

The NetworkParticipating Chapters and their Partner Organizations

Amherst College Pastoral de la Salud! San Salvador, El Salvador

Boston College Centro de Capacitación de Campesino de la Universidad Nacional San Cristobal de

Huamanga Ayacucho

Ayacucho, Peru

Brown University Ungano Tena Nairobi, Kenya

Bucknell University Kigezi Healthcare Foundation (KIHEFO) Kabale, Uganda

Columbia University Gulu Women's Economic Development - Globalization

Gulu, Uganda

Cornell University Centro de Atención Integral para Adolescentes (CEPAIPA)

Guayaquil, Ecuador

Georgetown University Primeros Pasos Quetzaltenango, Ecuador

George Washington University

Rwanda Village Concept Project Huye District, Rwanda

MIT Women Mobilizing for Development Bokeo, Laos

Middlebury College Gardens for Health International Gasabo, Rwanda

Northeastern University Kitovu Mobile AIDS Organization Masaka, Uganda

University of Pennsylvania

Village Health Relief Initiative Lagos, Nigeria

Penn State University Asociación Intercomunal de Comunidades Unidas para el Desarrollo Económico y Social

del Bajo Lempa

Baja Lempa, El Salvador

Princeton University Medical AIDS Outreach Montgomery, Alabama

Rutgers University Cooperation for Social Services and Development

Phnom Penh, Cambodia

University of Rochester Kallpa Iquitos Iquitos, Peru

Tufts University Nyaya Health Achham, Nepal

University of Virginia Build Your Future Today Center (BFT) Siemp Reap, Cambodia

HillTop ScheduleFriday, November 9

Check-In 3:00-6:30pm Earl Hall

Opening Remarks and Keynote 6:45-8:00pm Earl Hall

David Cohen is executive director of Village Health Works, a grassroots-based organization based in New York City that provides quality comprehensive health care to a community in Burundi. Through mobilization of an extensive network of community health workers, Village Health Works has helped to restore a war-torn region to a healthy and thriving population.

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Small Group Discussions 8:15-9:15pm Hamilton Seminar Rooms

Saturday, November 10

Breakfast 8:45-9:45am Broadway Room, Lerner Hall, 2nd Floor

Grow Presentations 10:00-11:00am 304 Barnard Hall Four GlobeMed chapters diverse in partner and project will present on their GROW internships and share struggles, successes, and lessons learned from traveling to their grassroots partner headquarters. These presentations aim to build regional chapter connections and o!er a forum for best practice sharing, so delegates will leave with action points to improve their chapters’ partnership and preparedness for future travels.

Activism Workshop 11:15-12:45pm 304 Barnard Hall

Jennifer Walker of HealthGAP will instruct delegates on the basics of advocacy and how to channel their passion into meaningful action for political and social change. From Ms. Walker’s experience with grassroots mobilization for HIV/AIDS awareness, GlobeMed aims to learns more about how to e!ect policy change in America to support our movement for global health equity.

HillTop Schedule

Saturday, November 12 (cont’d)

Lunch 1:00-1:45pm Broadway Room, Lerner Hall 2nd Floor

Keynote and Breakout Sessions 2:00-3:30pm Keynote: 517 Hamilton. Breakout Sessions: Hamilton Classrooms

Delegates will split into two sections. After the first session, the two groups of delegates will switch places. One will attend a keynote address given by All Stars Project President and CEO Gabrielle Kurlander. The All Stars Project is a youth development organization that works to promote confidence and leadership skills through performance. By targeting poor and minority youths through after school programs, the All Stars Project drastically changes the educational trajectory of children across the country. While half of the group attends Ms. Kurlander’s keynote, the other section will hear presentations given by representatives from organizations such as Children A!ected by HIV/AIDS, Amnesty International, No Impact Project, Washington Heights Corner Project, and Kiva.

Networking and Career Fair 3:45-4:45pmJames Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor

Delegates will have the opportunity to meet and converse with the many speakers featured "at HillTop. The fair will bring together experts and professionals in the field of global health, as well as members of the Columbia and Barnard community who are involved in other global health organizations, to share their di!erent approaches to our common goal.

Think Tanks 5:00-5:45pm Hamilton Classrooms Delegates will split into their di!erent executive board and general membership positions to brainstorm ways they can advocate for a stronger grassroots foundation with their partner organization, university, local community, and within their chapter. These groups will leverage students’ common positions in GlobeMed to optimize the students’ ability to make, share, and absorb best practices. Notes from these brainstorming sessions will be collected and disseminated at the end of the weekend, so delegates can return to their chapters with clear points of action.

Dinner 6:00-7:30pm James Room, Barnard Hall 4th Floor

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Sunday, November 11

Breakfast & State of the Network Address 9:00-10:00am Lerner Hall

Strategic Planning Session - NatO 10:00-11:30am Lerner Hall Party Space

Keynote 7:30-9:00pm Earl Hall

We are deeply honored to welcome Martin Fisher, co-founder and CEO of KickStart International, to deliver the honorary keynote address at the 2012 HillTop. KickStartInternational is an award- winning social enterprise which has helped over 670,000 people escape poverty. By tapping into the drive and commitment of members of impoverished communities, KickStart International uses grassroots mobilization and social entrepreneurship to give people the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty.

Reception 9:00-10:30pm Earl Hall

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David CohenExecutive Director, Village Health Works

David has spent his career focusing on community organizing, empowerment and education. He brings extensive experience in building organizations, communications and mobilization of grassroots supporters. David has long held a passion for social justice causes and has spent most of the past decade running political campaigns. In 2008 he managed multiple states for the Obama campaign, and has worked on races at the gubernatorial, Senate and House levels. His involvement with Village Health Works reaches back to 2008 when he first met Deo and helped the then fledgling organization develop its initial strategic plan. He is a graduate of Brown University where he studied public policy and

Opening KeynoteOpening Keynote

Gabrielle L. Kurlander has served as President and CEO of the All Stars Project (ASP) since 1990, transforming it from a grassroots, unfunded e!ort into a national model for youth development with programs in New York, Newark, the San Francisco Bay Area and Chicago. During her tenure, Ms. Kurlander has raised over $80 million, entirely from private funding sources, enabling the All Stars Project to reach tens of thousands of young people each year in poor communities with its innovative performance-based programs. Ms. Kurlander led the campaign to establish the ASP’s unique performing arts and development center on W 42nd Street which serves as its national headquarters. An actor and singer, Ms. Kurlander has been a member of the Castillo Theatre Company since 1987; she has performed in over 35 productions, and is on the directing sta!.

Gabrielle KurlanderPresident and CEO, All Stars Project

Plenary Keynote

Martin is the co-founder of KickStart International, an award-winning social enterprise which has helped over 670,000 people escape poverty permanently. He and co-founder Nick Moon, have created an innovative approach to fighting poverty that brings together the power of technology and the entrepreneurial spirit of the world’s poor.

After receiving his Ph.D. in engineering from Stanford, he won a Fulbright Fellowship to study the Appropriate Technology Movement in Kenya. A ten-month fellowship turned into seventeen years of fighting poverty in Africa. The lessons about what works, and what does not, formed the foundation of KickStart.

Martin leads a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team to create, market, and sell money-making tools. The most successful have been KickStart’s MoneyMaker irrigation pumps, with over 200,000 sold to date. Individually, people who purchase and use KickStart’s pumps see an average ten-fold increase in farm income. Combined, users of KickStart tools are generating over $114 million in new profits and wages each year.

Martin holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell class of 1979. He earned a M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering in 1980, and a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in 1985, both from Stanford.Martin is a frequent conference presenter on topics of social entrepreneurship, agriculture in the developing world, poverty alleviation, water usage, and related issues. He serves on the Board of BuildChange, the advisory boards of both the XPrize, and the Global Social Benefit Incubator at Santa Clara University.

Martin J. Fisher, Ph.D.Co-Founder and CEO,Kickstart International

Honorary Keynote

Speaker Biographies

Lilly BelangerProgram Director, No Impact Project

Lilly Belanger is the Program Director of the international, environmental nonprofit, the No Impact Project. Lilly has a BA in the field of Social Justice with a concentration in Sustainability and Environmental Studies. She has worked in program coordination and volunteer management with a variety of non-profits and has studied environmental justice in a diverse range of locations from Cuenca, Ecuador, to Southern Mexico, to the foothills of Appalachia in her home state of Kentucky.

Barrett PrinzHead of Human Resources and Legal Departments, One Acre Fund

Barrett Prinz is the head of One Acre Fund’s HR and Legal departments." He graduated from the University of Vermont and received his law degree from Tulane Law School." Prior to joining One Acre Fund, Barrett spent 10 years as a litigation attorney for a Manhattan firm specializing in complex corporate and white collar criminal defense matters." Barrett has also volunteered his time with the African Medical and Research Foundation and is the former Board Chair for the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance.

Speaker Biographies

Jamie FavaroFounder and Executive Director, Washington Heights CORNER Project

Jamie Favaro is the Founder and Executive Director of Washington Heights CORNER Project (Community Outreach and Resources, Needle Exchange and Harm Reduction). Since founding the agency, Ms. Favaro has been responsible for its legal incorporation, licensing, fundraising, overall operation and expansion activities. Since becoming a licensed Syringe Exchange Program in 2007, Washington Heights CORNER Project has provided over 375,000 clean, free syringes to high-risk, low or no-income injection drug users. Ms. Favaro received her MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work in 2004. She was the 2007 recipient of the ‘Emerging Social Work Leader’ award from the National Association of Social Workers.

Type to enter text Type to enter textJamie GreenthalKiva Alumni Fellow, Kiva International

From February to June of this year, Jamie served as a Kiva Fellow in the Philippines, where he worked with two of Kiva’s microfinance institution partners: "Community Economic Ventures, Inc. and Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation. "Prior to Kiva, Jamie was Associate Director of Business A!airs at ESPN in New York City. "In this role, he structured, negotiated, and executed digital media and technology strategic partnerships with leading companies, including Amazon, Google, HP, Hu#ngton Post, IBM, LG, and Skype.. Jamie earned a BA in Economics and French from Amherst College and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. "Between his two years at Tuck, Jamie was an Education Pioneers Fellow, working with Kings Collegiate Charter School in Brooklyn.

Speaker BiographiesDavid LoewenguthExecutive Director, CHABHA

Prior to joining CHABHA, David worked as a College Administrator at Long Island University in Career Development and Student Leadership. In 2009 he moved to Rwanda for a year volunteering with CHABHA and in March of 2010 was named the Executive Directorof CHABHA. CHABHA is committed to working with community-based grassroots organizations in sub-Saharan Africa that provide support for orphans and vulnerable children from AIDS.

CHABHA is now partnered with three grassroots organizations in Rwanda and one in Bujumbura, Burundi. The association leaders and CHABHA sta! together develop sustainable programs in capacity development for the beneficiaries.

Thenjiwe McHarrisAmnesty InternationalThenjiwe Tameika McHarris has devoted her professional and political career to the restoration of historically marginalized people and places. Born and raised in the Bronx, Thenjiwe attended Rutgers University where she studied Political Science and International Relations. After completing her studies, she went on to work for racial justice organizations where she advocated for the reform of institutions and policies that perpetuated racial inequality in communities throughout the country. Her work on racial justice issues includes advocating for accountability in wrongful death cases, rights and remedy for survivors of Hurricane Katrina as well as organizing a national student actions across the country. Shortly after joining Amnesty International USA, Thenjiwe began campaigning on a wide range of issues including death penalty abolition and e!orts to prevent the execution of Troy Anthony Davis, the eradication of economic rights violations that imprison communities in poverty; civil and political rights in Burma (Myanmar) and the release of now Burmese Parliamentarian, Aung Sang Suu Kyi as well as lobbying the South African government to ratify international instruments committed to realizing economic, social and cultural rights.

We would like to thank all of our generous supporters for making this year’s HillTop possible.

In particular, we extend our sincere gratitude to the Columbia University and Barnard College communities for their immeasurable guidance and collaborative spirit. Our sponsors represent a wide range of interests, areas of study, and nations, and embody the interdisciplinary model of GlobeMed. We are thankful for each of their unique and invaluable contributions to this year’s HillTop.

We are indebted to their commitment to solidarity and their enthusiastic encouragement of student involvement in global health. Without such willingness to share and their enduring partnership, this HillTop and our movement for health equity would not exist.

In Solidarity,Isabelle Fisher and Katie Houghton2012 GlobeMed HillTop Co-Chairs

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