Global Health

Student Organizations

 
 
 

Acting on AIDS
This organization was created to raise awareness and promote activism on the global AIDS pandemic across campuses throughout the nation.  With the support of World Vision, this group mobilizes students to fight against disease, poverty, and injustice.

 

Agua Clara
AguaClara is a project in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University that is improving drinking water quality through innovative research, knowledge transfer, open source engineering and design of sustainable, replicable water treatment systems.

 

AIESEC
AIESEC is the world's largest student-based organization, spanning over 100 countries and over 800 universities. We are dedicated to building international understanding by providing young people with the tools and opportunities to become globally-minded, responsible leaders and connecting them to organizations worldwide for international internship experiences.

 

Amnesty International – Cornell Chapter
Amnesty International is a worldwide grassroots organization dedicated to protecting human rights around the globe. The organization currently consists of more than a million members in over 140 countries, and maintains a non-profit, non-governmental, and non-political status.

 

Asha Cornell
Asha Cornell is a chapter of Asha for Education, an international non-profit organization dedicated to improving basic education for underprivileged children in India.  This chapter currently provides financial support to five schools in India, which involves reviewing their budgets and conducting site visits annually.  Asha also works to increase awareness on campus about the importance and challenges of basic education in India and the developing world.

 

B-Aware (former name Club HBV)
As many as 1 in 10 Asians and Asian Americans are infected with chronic hepatitis B. This totals 300 million worldwide, making it 10x more prevalent than HIV. B-Aware exists to raise awareness of the disproportionately high incidence of hepatitis B and liver cancer among Asians of all nationalities. B-Aware is a founding chapter of National Team HBV.

 

Best Buddies
To enhance the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment. College students are matched with special needs adults in the community, meeting weekly to cultivate friendship.

 

Big Red Relief
Big Red Relief is an organization dedicated to fundraising and promoting awareness for humanitarian relief efforts worldwide.  The proceeds of the huge benefit concert go directly to a relief organization determined by the executive board and in the past we have raised between $2,000 to $10,000. Last year the proceeds went to the International Rescue Committee in aid of Iraqi Refugees. A panel discussion was held the week of the concert with professors and officials speaking on the Iraq refugee crisis.

 

Books for Africa
This organization collects books to be sorted and shipped to children in Africa. Its goal is to alleviate the dearth of books in Africa. These books will be used in classrooms, libraries, as well as by children who have never held a book in their hands. The types of books we collect range from primary school to college level books.

 

Bridges to Community
The Cornell chapter of Bridges to Community is a service-learning organization on campus. Every spring break we travel to a village in Nicaragua where we work with the local community to construct houses for deserving families. There is also have a class that goes along with the trip in which students explore issues relating to service-learning as well as Nicaraguan culture and history.

 

Cornell Against Hunger
Cornell Against Hunger works to alleviate hunger within the Ithaca area by working with Loaves and Fishes, The Friendship Center, and the Southern Tier Food Bank. This group sponsors the Ithaca Hunger Banquet to raise money for the Southern Tier Food Bank. Cornell Against Hunger also wants to expand our work to be more visible within the Cornell and Ithaca communities.

 

Cornell Global Development Club
The aim of this Cornell club is to facilitate engagement and dialogue in Global Development through hosting events and discussion groups, publishing a journal and blog as well as through our international and domestic projects.

 

Cornell Health International (CHI)
Cornell Health International  is a student organization at Cornell University that works to raise awareness of global health issues at Cornell University and to provide members the opportunity to develop student-led service projects in international health.

 
Cornellians for the Congo
Cornellians for the Congo will mobilize individuals and communities within the United States and Canada in an effort to aid the Congolese as they advance their development goals. This goal will be achieved through fundraising ventures to support grassroots non- profit organizations in the DRC as well as through direct service- learning trips conducted by Cornellians for the Congo.
 

Cover Africa
Cover Africa is a Cornell organization aiming to increase malaria awareness on campus and in Ithaca, strategizing to help prevent malaria, and distributing bed nets to those most in need.  There is also service learning course offered which educates students about Ghanaian culture, history and malaria, and sends Cornell students to Ghana to distribute bed nets, provide malaria education outreach programs, re-treat bed nets and collect data to evaluate our intervention.

 

Disability Advocacy, Cornell University
CUDA is an awareness and activism union of members of the Cornell community with and without disabilities by demonstrating that disabilities studies has a place in an academic setting and creating an active campus-wide network that centralizes the offices dealing with disabilities issues on campus. CUDA brings a greater awareness to our peers and community about what it means to have a disability with the hope of abating social stigmas attached to disabilities.

 

Foundation for International Medical Relief of Children
FIMRC's goal is to provide quality medical care to children accross the globe who currently have no access to such care. Through fundraising, FIMRC donates money for the construction of pediatric clinics in areas currently lacking a reliable source for healthcare.  Efforts directly influence the health of children by encouraging and supporting individuals and groups who desire to travel to medically underserved areas of the world.

 

FreeRice Initiative
This group encourages the use of FreeRice.com with the hopes of reducing world hunger while conveniently improving students' vocabulary levels.  Current investments include campus-wide FreeRice tournaments that not only promote website usage, but also involve donations to other charity organizations.

 

Global Medical Brigades (GMB), Cornell University
This is a secular, international, and socially-conscience network of university clubs and volunteer organizations whose mission is to provide medical relief and health education for under-served communities across the globe.  The goal is to provide a holistic model for sustainable health care, treat patients to the highest ethical standards, and visit relevant community projects. The current focus is on Honduras, a country in Central America, where the organization will work in collaboration with the private, non-profit organization Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos, founded by Sister Maria Rosa Leggol, a recent nominee of the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

Help Us Stop Hunger (HUSH)
HUSH is a hunger and poverty awareness group, serving marginalized communities on the local and international level through education & awareness, community service, and funding of projects. Past supporting development projects include one in rural western Kenya through the NGO Reach the Children. HUSH's aim is to inform the student body of the problems of poverty and hunger in the world and to encourage them towards effective means of change.

 
ILR Global Affairs Club (IGAC)
This is a new student organization for undergraduates who are especially interested in international-related activities and study dealing with the global world of work. IGAC’s goal is to promote greater awareness about the issues affecting today’s global workplace and will aim to do so by hosting regular forums, special events, and workshops.
 
Inspiring Youth Abroad (IYA)
The primary goal of IYA is to bring awareness to the Cornell community of the different hardships youth face in the pursuit of education around the world. By providing opportunities for education, IYA hopes to prove that a small group of individuals can in fact be a force of change in their own communities and make a sustainable difference in communities worldwide. IYA wants people to know that there are more than 800 million adults who cannot read or write; two thirds of which are women. This group hopes that by the next generation we will be able to decrease or eradicate this statistic.
 
Intemed
This group raises awareness about the developing field of integrative medicine, to expand the current medical perspective, and to familiarize the community with alternative and complementary medical practices often used hand in hand with Western medicine in our society and beyond.
 

International Justice Mission (IJM)- Cornell Chapter
The International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that rescues victims of violence, sexual exploitation, slavery and other forms of violent oppression. As a chapter, Cornell IJM works to educate and raise awareness in our community, fundraise, and most importantly to pray over these issues. IJM is a Christian-based organization, but all who are interested are welcome to take part in our meetings.

 

Israeli Palestinian Children's Health Initiative
IPCHI is an apolitical organization of students from a diverse range of backgrounds, working together to raise funds for and to support the betterment of the health conditions of children living in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza. IPCHI is dedicated towards embodying the WHO's approach of "Health as a Bridge for Peace" with a special focus on children, with the hopes of becoming one step closer to bringing about a more peaceful future to the region for the next generation.

 

Journal of Inequality Studies, Cornell (CJIS)
CJIS is devoted to publishing scholarly articles that examine theoretical models, present innovative empirical evidence, discuss political implications, and address remedial policies and legal reform of issues related to inequality. By publishing academic works on a diverse-range of inequality topics, such as (but not limited to) education, health, poverty, and income, with consideration for groups stratified or marginalized based on gender, race, ethnicity, religion, or socioeconomic class, CJIS seeks to produce a collaboration of the highest quality undergraduate student manuscripts.

 

Justice for Children International
Justice for Children Internation's goals are to increase awareness of sexual trafficking within the Cornell and Ithaca community and to fundraise for the construction of safe homes for rescued victims of exploitation.

 

Mansi 
Mansi is dedicated to spreading awareness about the women in developing countries and empowering them. This group also fundraises for Short Stay Homes, where outcasted women can obtain shelter, medical/psychological care and job training.

 

March of Dimes Collegiate Council  
This group seeks to raise awareness about birth defects and premature birth through community service, education, and outreach. The March of Dimes Collegiate Council seeks to further the mission of the national March of Dimes organization.

 

MicroChange
This group works to reduce global poverty by implementing an efficient and flexible microcredit loan program.  It is their goal to help eliminate gender inequality and labor barriers, and provide the necessary capital to aspiring entrepreneurs who are marginalized by traditional loan programs. MicroChange educates the Cornell community about international issues concerning poverty and global inadequacies.

 

Microfinance Club, Cornell 
Currently in its second year on campus (formerly Cornell-Ithaca Microfinance Alliance), The undergraduate Cornell Microfinance Club serves to raise funds to provide microfinancing to small businesses around the world; educate the Cornell community about microfinance; and connect members with volunteer, internship, and job opportunities in the microfinance field.

 

NK Focus 
The purpose of NK FOCUS is to raise awareness about human rights violations in North Korea to the broader Cornell community and to mobilize tangible student action towards helping the voiceless.

 

Operation D.E.E.P.
To expand and develop education for less privileged children in China and raise the Cornell community's awareness of educational conditions in developing countries.

 

Partnership for Honduran Health (P4HH)  
P4HH aims to improve the quality of life for the people of Honduras by designing educational programs focused on health, raise funds and in-kind donations, and taking trips to Honduras to begin the educational programs, train locals to ensure sustainability of said programs, and volunteer at a clinic alongside doctors from University at Arizona. P4HH work with the NGO Salud Juntos (saludjuntos.org) in all of these various activities.

PATCH (Pre-Professional Association Toward Careers in Health)
PATCH provides Cornell undergraduates with the resources they need to make informed decisions about future careers in health. This group exposes members to different opportunities available in the health field, while giving them strategies to help them work towards their goal of a health-related career. Finally, PATCH brings together pre-med and pre-health students in a supportive atmosphere so that they may learn from and help each other.

 

Project Hope at Cornell
The purpose of this group is to provide impoverished school children in rural China with support and funds to attend school and acquire a basic education. To make this possible, Project Hope fundraise in the Ithaca and Cornell communities.

 

Project Kenya    
Project Kenya is a service organization that sends eight members to the Bungoma region of Kenya each winter break to conduct both nutrition-based family planning seminars and a research project. The group spends the fall semester preparing the members for the winter trip. The group spends the spring semester making changes to the curriculum based on the results of the trip and selecting eight new members to travel to Kenya the following year.

 

Red Cross Club, Cornell
Coordinate student activities related to programs sponsored by the American Red Cross, particularly the Tompkins County Chapter. Activities include: blood-, health-, emergency-, homeless-, and youth-services. This is a humanitarian organization focused on voluntary service to our local, national, and international communities.

 

Roots and Shoots
This group fosters an understanding and appreciation for our natural environment works towards positive change. Roots and Shoots are primarily active in raising awareness through educational campaigns and fundraising for organizations that conserve the forests and maintain environmental integrity.  The goal is to enhance our understanding and to raise awareness about how people and nature can live harmoniously.

 

Rwanda Health Project  
This group raises awareness and money for the Kigali Medical University Foundation in Rwanda. This foundation is raising money to provide funding for the construction, staffing, and equipment of a modern medical school in Rwanda, Africa.

 

Sexual Health Awareness Group (SHAG)
This group provides sexual health education to student groups at Cornell and raises community awareness of sexual health topics important to college communities.

 

Sloan Student Association
This group provides interested students with current insights into health care and related fields It also provides students a forum by which pressing issues can be addressed in regard to health care and health care administration education, promotes and maintains close association and cooperation among students in Human Ecology and between graduate students and faculty of the Sloan Program in Health Services Administration.

 

Society for HPV Education and Prevention (SHEP)  
At least one in three sexually active young women has some type of HPV. HPV is associated with more than 90% of all cervical cancer. Cervical cancer can occur in young women, some who are in their twenties and is the second most common cancer in women around the world. Although the breakthrough new vaccine, Gardasil, targets the two types of HPV that cause 70% of cervical cancer, high costs and limited awareness of the risks of HPV-cancer connections have led too many women to overlook the need for vaccination. This club raises awareness of the high HPV risk among college-age women and the importance of vaccination as well as regular gynecological exams and pap smears. Because of the high cost of Gardasil, this group works to promote organizations that provide coverage for those in need and improve the coverage situation at Cornell.

 

STARS
STARS' mission is to raise awareness about past and current genocides and ethnic conflicts in our world, including the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan. We accomplish this by educating the members of the Cornell community about past genocides, including the Holocaust, the Armenian Genocide, and the Rwandan Genocide. We also strive to lead the campus in campaigns to end genocides going on today. Past events include Darfur Awareness Week and Holocaust Awareness Month.

 

Student Society for Public Health, Cornell
This is an organization created to discuss and promote awareness about healthcare infrastructure issues and epidemiological trends that are affecting countries around the world. It will work to address the health threats of different communities worldwide; paying special attention to the social context of disease. Moreover, this group will offer both graduates and undergraduates with opportunities in Public Health and Epidemiology through national and international collaborations. This group will work towards promoting and supporting through intervention projects and education, the millennium development goals.

 

Students Against Sweatshops, Cornell   
This organization is part of a national organization which organizes students to mobilize around social justice issues, specifically those concerning international labor and human rights violations. CSAS is active in educating students on international trade, policy, workplace conditions in sweatshops, and Cornell University's role as a solution to some of these problems. They recently were successful in gaining Cornell’s support for a “Designated Suppliers Program” - a commitment that all of Cornell’s licensed apparel will be sourced from factories which pay their workers a living wage, and support workers’ rights.

 

Teach for America  
Teach For America at Cornell aims to recruit and network outstanding recent college graduates and professionals of all academic majors and career interests who commit two years to teach in urban and rural public schools and become leaders in the effort to expand educational opportunity. Their mission is to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the effort.

 

Unite For Sight- Cornell Chapter
Unite for Sight is an organization that works to end preventable blindness both locally and globally. Locally, the Cornell chapter will provide vision screenings and educational sessions about eye health through the Ithaca Free Clinic. The chapter will also hold an on-going eyeglass drive and several fundraisers per year to collect money and glasses which will be sent to underdeveloped areas of Africa and Southeast Asia.

 

Up 'Til Dawn  
Up 'Til Dawn is a student run organization whose purpose is to fundraise and raise awareness for the pediatric patients at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

 

Veterinarians Interested in Developing Areas (VIDA) 
The purpose of this group is to provide a forum for discussion of topics relevant to veterinary medicine in developing countries. VIDA promotes career development of students interested in international veterinary medicine. VIDA encourages and aids students in obtaining international veterinary experience.

 

Veterinary Public Health Association  
The purpose of this club shall be to educate students about veterinary public health and provide opportunities in externships, internships, and jobs in this field.