Medical Summer Programs for High School Students
If you’re in high school and thinking about pursuing a career in health care, you’ve probably started looking into medical summer programs for high school students. There are a lot of…
Chapters & Students
Student Travel With Purpose: What It Looks Like for Canadian Students
Time abroad as a student can simply just be a vacation, and that’s a reasonable choice. But if you’re interested pre-health or public health and want your time abroad to mean…
Short-Term Volunteer Opportunities for Canadian University Students
Between course loads, part-time jobs, labs, group projects, and bustling personal lives, most Canadian undergrads today don’t have the spare time to fit in a service trip abroad. If you’re…
7 Leadership Skills You Can Build by Running a Student Chapter
Taking on an executive leadership role in a campus organization is one of the best ways to bridge classroom learning with practical management experience. Academic coursework is great for building…
Academic Preparation Redefines Health Education: The Berkeley Method
When pre-health students consider getting involved in international field education experiences, the standard model often follows a familiar pattern: sign up for a trip, complete basic pre-departure logistics, then travel. While…
How Consistent Outreach Built Momentum at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln
When 70 students showed up for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Chapter’s first General Body Meeting of the semester, it looked like what we’d call an overnight success. However, single-event turnouts…
Can a Service Learning Trip Become a University Course?
A lot of pre-health and public health students seek academic opportunities that connect textbook concepts with practical field experience. Because of this, international service learning has become an increasingly popular…
Booking Your Service Learning Trip Early Creates a Better Experience
Securing your spot on an international field education program is an exciting milestone for anyone passionate about global health and world cultures. However, treating trip registration as a last-minute decision…
How Students Can Study Global Health Through MEDLIFE
In lecture halls and seminar rooms, pre-health and public health coursework introduces students to the concepts of epidemiology, social determinants of health, and international care models. While analyzing case studies…
Want to Lead in Global Health? Start by Learning How to Listen
When students step into executive roles within pre-health organizations like a MEDLIFE chapter, leadership is often framed as taking charge, directing initiatives, and driving agendas from the top down. In…
How to Build a Global Health Community on Your Campus
Building a movement around global health equity and poverty reduction does not require waiting for a clinical degree or an international plane ticket. Across every college campus, there’s a plethora…
You Don’t Have to Travel to Start Making an Impact
When students picture making a difference in the field of global health, their minds often jump straight to international travel. Flying across the world to work alongside rural health clinics…