{"id":70505,"date":"2021-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2021\/03\/29\/the-student-alliance-for-global-health-sagh-25th-anniversary\/"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:12:31","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:12:31","slug":"the-student-alliance-for-global-health-sagh-25th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2021\/03\/29\/the-student-alliance-for-global-health-sagh-25th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Student Alliance for Global Health (SAGH) 25th Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

The UNMC Student Alliance for Global Health (SAGH) is proudly celebrating its 25th anniversary. To mark this special occasion, this year, the SAGH Board arranged a speaker series for the entire UNMC community from March 22-26.
\n 
\nThe speakers came from a variety of medical backgrounds, but all shared their views of global health and ways to make a difference here in the U.S. Speakers included Gina Wilson-Ramirez, MD, MPH, MA, Class of 1998; and Steve Pergam, MD, MPH, Class of 1998; who were the original co-founders of SAGH and who organized the first medical service trip in March of 1996 (pictured above). Other speakers included Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, DIMPH; Elizabeth Rogers, MD, MAS, Class of 2007; and Christine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTMH, Class of 2010.
\n 
\n"It's impossible to participate in a global health rotation without seeing the stark inequities of our world. My international experiences as a medical student shaped my worldview and my commitment to social justice and health equity, helping to mold me into the physician and the human that I am today," said Elizabeth Rogers, MD, one of the guest speakers.
\n 
\nThe Student Alliance for Global Health was launched in August 1995; the first medical service trip took place in March 1996, with 13 students and Dr. Kristine McVea (the current medical director of OneWorld) and Sara Pirtle as faculty\/staff sponsors to Nicaragua. One of the participants arranged for her his mother (a Spanish language professor) to offer a medical Spanish course prior to departure.
\n 
\nFlash forward 25 years later:<\/p>\n