About
Who Are We?
Global Health Forum (GHF) was founded in January of 2007 to address and educate students about serious global health issues. The suffering of people around the world was, and continues to be, an issue in need of intense discussion and action.
Our mission is to empower ourselves and community members to improve global health through raising awareness, cultivating partnerships, and pressuring political initiative.
Core Values
1) Social responsibility
2) Self-initiative
3) Sustainability
4) Interdisciplinary Collaborations
Board and Staff Members
What We Do
Who We’ve Worked With
GHF in action! (photos)
News Coverage of GHF
Partner Organizations
Our Projects
The purpose of Global Health Forum’s current initiative, entitled “Minus Malaria”, is to educate and inspire college students to become agents of change in the fight to eradicate malaria and other infectious diseases. To this end, we aim to create a nationwide anti-malaria movement driven by a network of educated and empowered students, a movement that will at once foster a national consciousness of the issues surrounding malaria and enhance the efficacy of our disease eradication efforts. Our vision is to establish a network of college student groups whose anti-malaria initiatives—including education, fundraising, and generating malaria awareness—make malaria and other global health issues prominent in the media and in people’s minds. Because institutions of higher education shape the intellectual culture of a nation, our initiative has the potential to foster greater national action in the struggle against malaria.
The first focus of our campaign will be to inspire students from other college campuses to become involved in eradicating malaria, thereby engaging them in a unified effort to create social change. Because of the diversity of college campuses in terms of backgrounds and interests, we can achieve multifaceted engagement surrounding the issue of malaria. The malaria epidemic is relevant not only to those interested in a career in medicine, but also to future economists, sociologists, activists, and policy makers. Through intense networking at other colleges, we foresee the creation of a unified effort of individuals interested in diverse disciplines but united in their passion to fight malaria. Why Malaria…? Click here
Community Crocs Collection-Spring 2009
At the Global Health Forum, we are starting a low-tech, low-cost initiative in the Delaware County area that will improve the health and quality of life of people living in Malawi. Studies have found that basic footwear improves hygiene and lowers rates of infections. Infections like the disease tungiasis thrive in areas where people walk around barefoot. These infections can greatly increase the risk of secondary infections, like tetanus, which can be lethal. Working together with SolesUnited and Crocs, Inc. the Global Health Forum is seeking to donate footwear that will greatly benefit people in this community.
Eugene M. Lang ‘38 and the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College created the Swarthmore Project Pericles Fund in 2005. The purpose of the Fund is to support groups of Swarthmore students who propose and implement social and civic action projects whose scope and sustainability will advance solutions for the issues in question and also promote recognition of students’ motivation and capability to address such major issues effectively.
