UNIVERSITY COALITIONS for GLOBAL HEALTH

Break the Bottleneck: World AIDS Day 2006

On December 1, 2006 the Fight AIDS: Break the Bottleneck Campaign occurred all over the country.

UCGH NMOs, like Student Global AIDS Campaign, led a march of over 400 people through the streets of Washington D.C., while students at Case Western University and University of Pittsburgh demonstrated on their campuses by carrying the empty white coats of African doctors as an illustration of the lack of public health infrastructure.

The campaign was designed to bring national attention to the health care worker shortage in sub-Saharan Africa.

Rx for Child Survival: A Global Health Challenge^TM

Rx for Child Survival - A Global Health Challenge^TM was an unprecedented multimedia project and impact campaign that informed Americans about key issues in global health.

The campaign was a project of WGBH Boston, Vulcan Productions, PBS.org, TIME magazine, and The Penguin Press, in collaboration with the Global Health Council, CARE, Save the Children, and UNICEF.

We built “Campus Coalitions” that galvanized awareness and mobilized diverse audiences to take action and contribute the funds needed to provide the interventions to some of the poorest children in the world. PBS affiliates in each community reached out to the local businesses, religious, NGO, global health, civic engagement and youth enrichment groups to form outreach partnerships.

These “Campus Coalitions” engaged in local to global initiatives such as forums, summits and town meetings, reaching large and varied audiences across the country, engaging them in ways that not only increased their understanding of global health issues, but mobilized diverse groups of grassroots constituents and community leaders to become involved in activities contributing to global child survival.

World Health Week of Action: April 7-14, 2005

In 2005, World Health Day focused on the theme “Make Every Mother and Child Count”.

The National G8 Child and Maternal Health Petition was launched on World Health Day, April 7, 2005 in conjunction with the Make Every Mother and Child Count Campaign.

UCGH collected a petition with 75,000 signatures, each one representing a child who will die needlessly while the world’s leaders met in July 2005. Also, UCGH asked students to join in and put their artistic abilities to the test.

The UCGH Creative Arts Contest called all artists to submit a piece of original artwork that helped tell the story of the health crisis of thousands of mothers and children in developing countries.