Greetings,

We’re gearing up for The Global Health Week of Action (April 4th-10th), and encourage your chapter to participate in this nationwide week of advocacy and education. The theme this year is building health workforce capacity in developing countries. Support your health professional colleagues in Africa, Asia and elsewhere to help their communities realize the right to health. How? Educate your campus and take action to support the Global HEALTH Act, which would provide $2 billion for health systems strengthening in twelve African countries. Check out the Global Health Week of Action Toolkit for more information.

Following are blog posts that delve more deeply into GHWA and the Global HEALTH Act, along with some great posts recounting memorable moments from the National Conference:

Announcing April’s Global Health Week of Action (GHWA)!
This year we encourage chapters to focus their GHWA on raising awareness about health workers and health systems around the world. The GHWA Toolkit includes everything you need to plan a week of successful events and make a big impact in your community.

Global HEALTH Act About to Be Introduced: How YOU Can Help
We have a MAJOR opportunity to advance health workforce capacity coming up in April. Congress will be introducing a new bill, the Global HEALTH Act, which would provide $2 billion dollars for developing countries to build their health workforce capacity. Take action during GHWA to ensure your Representative co-sponsors this important act.

2010 PHR National Student Conference
Check out highlights from the Conference, peruse our favorite PHR Tweets from the day, and read US congressman James McGovern’s speech to students and remarks by Justin List, this year’s Navin Narayan Award winner.

We encourage you all to take the ideas and energy from the Conference and apply them to your Global Health Week of Action (a great way to augment health and human rights education on campus) and to mainstreaming HHRE curriculum at your university.

All the best,

Hope O’Brien
National Student Program Coordinator

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