Global Health Academic Community
Objectives
- Demonstrate an understanding of the challenges and strategies for Global Health and Development.
- Critically assess complexities of global health issues, particularly those most applicable in low-resource settings.
- Develop the ability to practice patient-centered care by improving awareness and communication skills with culturally diverse patient populations and staff.
- Demonstrate cultural competency and engage in appropriate discussions about different perspectives and approaches to patient management and medical system design.
- Describe the role of a visiting health care professional in maintaining a sustainable, ethically-responsible, and mutually beneficial relationship with the host institutions.
- Complete a global health academic project/scholarly activity
- Demonstrate peer teaching of Global Health issues
Competencies
- Identify factors of global health and development from an interdisciplinary vantage point.
- Identify interventions used to ameliorate health and developmental problems, particularly in low-resource settings.
- Recognize the role of advocacy in global health
- Communicate public health principles and concepts through written and verbal means.
- Apply evidence-based knowledge of health considerations to public health issues.
- Employ ethical principles and behaviors, and exhibit cultural competence.
- Promote cultural and ethnic distinctness in public health research and practice.
Curriculum
Topics:
- Introduction to Global Health
- Preparing for an International Elective
- Cultural Issues in International Service
- Ethical Considerations for short-term clinical experiences abroad
- International strategies to improve maternal mortality
- International strategies to reduce under 5 mortality
- Nutrition
- Trauma and Injury
- Mental Health
- Health Systems
- Multidimensional Poverty and Development
- Refugee and Immigrant Health
- Emerging Infections
- Non-Communicable Diseases
Contact Elizabeth Rose for more information.