CHE General Meeting Minutes
09.24.08
Meeting began ~5:10 pm
Announcements:
v Breast Cancer Walk Sat. 10/18th @ Golden Gate Park. CHE is planning to participate so if you’re interested you can sign up! If you have any questions, email Maria at
v Publicity/Flyering Committee if you signed up for the publicity committee, please meet @ GCB Friday and Monday at 8:15 pm in order to help flyer-Please help if you can!
v Semana Binacional Committees:
Ø Members who signed up for committees will be sent emails from the contact person:
Ø Publicity (will create flyers and publicize event):
§ Jennifer and Jackie
Ø Pamphlet for families (collect info and resources in Bay Area):
§ Angie
Ø Set Up (Mon-Thurs ~5-6 pm) / Clean Up (Mon-Thurs ~7pm)
§ Bradley
Ø Kids’ Activities (Friday ~6-8pm)
§ Lisandra
v Icebreaker:
Ø Human Bingo—Winner of Jamba Juice gift card: Kimmie—congrats! J
v Guest Speaker: Abby Rincón
Ø Directory of Diversity, School of Public Health
§ (background in Public Health and Nursing)
Ø Also an advisor for students interested or considering the public health field
§ What is Public Health?
· Social justice, prevention, working in communities and outreach
· It has a lot of potential in this area—new opportunities and a hot new field
§ You have another option besides medicine/medical school—if you’re interested in making a difference/impact in your community and assessing resources
§ You could be any kind of major for Public Health graduate school**
· Abby sees a lot of students struggle with science courses and when they try to apply for graduate school, their GPA is not strong enough to make them a competitive applicant L
· Public Health Grad school:
¨ 3.0 GPA (although most have 3.5) & 58% ranking in GRE scores
¨ Personal statement and 3 letters of rec
¨ Involvement and outreach in community/volunteer work (CHE!)
· **Abby meets with students to advise students on a wide range of topics—grad school, major, internships, etc. **Let her be a resource for you and contact her if you have any questions**
· Public Health Conference
¨ Really good if you’re interested in the field, but RSVP quick because spaces fill up fast (RSVP by emailing: )
· Q & A:
¨ What’s the % of students get in?
Ø Not that many b/c they don’t apply—very low # from UC Berkeley students—many people think that you can’t do undergrad at Cal and also grad at Cal but yes you can!
Ø (There’s also the GPA to consider)
§ **GPA is calculated using your last two years
¨ What’s the difference between Cal and UCLA’s grad schools?
Ø UCLA: biomedical focus—disease/causation/epidemiology
Ø Cal: social justice/understanding communities/global health issues
**Please email Abby if you’re interested in learning more about Public Health or anything-she’s definitely interested in being a resource and helping CHE members! Email address is: **