The Global Health Resource Center, Department of Global Health is seeking student about 20 graduate student, professional student, and undergraduate volunteers to help plan our next student-led global health conference at UW, the Western Regional International Health Conference, April 22-24, 2016.
The committee meets biweekly on Monday evenings and will be organizing throughout the school year to plan this event. This is a working committee where students will gain experience in event planning and have the opportunity to set the agenda for the conference and its subthemes.
The Western Regional International Health Conference started in November 2002 by a group of medical students at the University of Washington, School of Medicine’s International Health Group, a student organization committed to bringing awareness to global health issues and supporting their medical student colleagues. This event, which began as a student-inspired, student-run conference, now draws close to 1,000 students, faculty, staff, residents, and community members from the western half of the United States and Canada. Past keynote speakers have included Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, Jeffrey Sachs, and Mirta Roses Periago. The conference usually alternates between the University of Washington, the home institution for the event, and other western U.S. and Canadian institutions. The conference organizing committees are made up of an interdisciplinary cross-section of undergraduates, graduate, and professional students who are committed to a pursuit of a career in global health, including nursing, medicine, social work, law, business, public health, dentistry, and pharmacy.
Please contact Daren Wade, dwade@uw.edu, as soon as possible, if you are interested to participate on the committee. We will try to have one meeting next week before some folks have to leave for the summer.
