Ride for World Health

On May 19th OSUMC hosted Global Health Day, a day to raise awareness on global health issues, including poverty and health, women's health and HIV/AIDS. On this same day, OSUMC also welcomed the Ride for World Health 2008 riders into Columbus, along their route from San Diego to Washington DC. Ride for World Health is a non-profit organization founded in November 2004 by a small group of OSU medical students with a shared interest in global health issues. The organization completed its first cross country cycling and education program in the spring of 2006. This is the third annual cross-country ride. Each year, the Ride for World Health donates money to a non-profit organization working in global health. This year, the beneficiary is the well-known organization Doctors Without Borders.

Included in the Global Health Day events were an arrival ceremony for the riders, several national speakers delivering lectures on current issues in international health, a community fair, lunch and opportunities to donate to the Ride for World Health organization.

For more information and to donate online, please visit the Ride for World Health's website at http://www.rideforworldhealth.org/.

To view the first of a series of Ride for World Health videos:
http://www.medshow.com/enjoy/documentaries/r4wh2008/?video=start.flv

Ride for World Health Wins Award:

eTown, a nationally syndicated radio show through the NPR network interviewed Ride For World Health co-founder, Dr. Andy Wagner, and presented him with the e-chievement award as part of the April 30 etown taping. The show also featured musical guests Kathy Mattea and bluesman John Long.

The show was recorded in Greeley, Colorado, before several hundred attendees. It will be edited for broadcast and aired nationally as a one-hour syndicated show to over 240 radio stations and also via XM satellite Ch. 45. The air dates (each station determines its own specific schedule) for this taping are Wednesday June 25 through Tuesday July 1.