about sghe

Our bloggers

• Peter Luckow – After taking a year off of school to work full-time at the GlobeMed National Office, Peter recently returned to Northwestern University to complete his studies in anthropology and global health.  He has interned with Partners In Health and the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.  Peter has worked, listened, and learned during brief trips to Rwanda, Uganda, Ghana, and Guatemala. In his free time, Peter focuses his energies primarily on The Colbert Report, the Chicago Cubs, and Chipotle burritos.
• Jon Shaffer – Jon is a senior biomedical engineering major and global health minor at Northwestern University. As the president of GlobeMed at NU, Jon has been actively involved in studying and working on issues of health equity since his freshman year. By working in partnership with grassroots health leaders and GlobeMed students at Northwestern, he lead efforts improve child nutrition and expand diagnostic facilities at the HOPE Center, a rural medical clinic in Ho, Ghana. He is currently spending too much time blogging about global health instead of studying the application of mass and heat transfer to medical devices… so he’ll leave it there for now.
• Ankur Asthana – Ankur is a junior at Northwestern University majoring in biomedical engineering. He has learned a tremendous amount about issues of poverty, structural violence, and development from his work with communities in rural Panama on various engineering projects. This past summer Ankur had the opportunity to continue his learning through an internship at Global Health Delivery Online. Ankur is originally from the small town of Menomonie in Wisconsin, believes that Taco Bell is infinitely more satisfying than Chipotle, and enjoys a competitive game of Super Smash Brothers anytime.
• Dev Varma – Dev is a sophomore at Rhodes College focusing his studies on English and Creative Writing. He first got interested in global health issues this year when a GlobeMed chapter was founded at Rhodes. As a Campaign Coordinator for GlobeMed, he has gained invaluable experience trying to translate the problems contained in global health inequity to people from all different disciplines. Because of this, Dev is a big believer in the power of connectivity, and while he is fairly new to the global health game, he understands the necessity for opening communication between the health world and the general public. Dev absolutely loves to recite lines from Emily Dickinson or Walt Whitman when the moon is full, considers all Mexican fast food pretty much equal, and is willing to wager his life in a game of Wii Tennis.

Join SGHE

Still in its formative stages, SGHE is currently not actively seeking additional bloggers.  If you are interested in joining the SGHE blogging team email sghequity@gmail.com.

Also, if you have requests or information for our bloggers to write about, shoot us an email at sghequity@gmail.com.