Take time to review GlobeMed's Leadership Practices below. These are meant to guide members to contribute positively to GlobeMed spaces, participate in community building, and build holistic leadership skills.

Leadership Practices

• • Dig Deep: To understand systems and their root causes, we approach ourselves, our communities, and the world with openness, curiosity, and humility.

  • See Possibility: In the process of radical re-imagination, we recognize the strengths, abilities, and opportunities to grow in ourselves and our community.

  • Cultivate Belonging: We build our movement as a space that celebrates our whole, authentic selves, recognizes the inherent value of every person, and is accountable for repairing harm.

  • Grow Together: We accompany each other, especially those most impacted, as we find our place in a diverse global movement that inspires, challenges, and sustains us.

  • Be Brave: We put our shared vision in front of ego and fear, seize opportunities to grow through challenges, and do what is necessary to reach our collective goals.

  • Follow Through: We keep our commitments to ourselves and each other and act with the highest levels of integrity and accountability.

  • Build Sustainably: For us all to truly thrive in the long term, we care for ourselves, our relationships, and our community so that we can collectively build towards a future vision of equity.

Re-imagining Leadership

Reimagining leadership is about shifting our understanding of leadership from the concentration of power from one person to the distribution of power to many. Everyone, regardless of title or perceived expertise, has something to offer and contribute. These notions of value and expertise are deeply ingrained, but it is important to view lived experience as a vital form of expertise. In global health equity work, traditional systems of hierarchical leadership create massive power imbalances at the expense of communities that could most benefit from improved health.

Shifting these structures to horizontal leadership models that place an emphasis on community-based needs and ideas is essential to improving global health equity. Over the course of the next academic year, we will examine how to begin this shift, and how education can shift to incorporate these perspectives and build critical thinking.

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GlobeMed HQ recently updated our Leadership Development Packet for students to use! Download a copy HERE!

The next module presents GlobeMed's most recent Annual Report (2020) which provides a number of examples of students, partners, and alumni living out our leadership practices and embracing our 3 function areas. Click below to move forward.

Photo: GlobeMed at University of Cincinnati| GROW 2019