Committees & Working Groups
CUGH has several committees, subcommittees, and working groups that connect global health professionals on a given topic.
Programmatic Committees
CUGH's Programmatic Committees focus on a thematic area of importance to global health and are open to CUGH individual and institutional members.
Advocacy, Policy & Communications Committee
Chair(s): Keith Martin & Benjamin Mason Meier
This committee identifies advocacy issues and ways in which CUGH can disseminate information, mobilize, and foster collaboration amongst its members and the larger global health community, to improve the health of people and the planet.
Education Committee
Chair(s): Meredith Gartin & Ivan Teri
CUGH was founded within academic global health programs and recognizes the need to expand and develop global health educational programs and resources. Multiple subcommittees and working groups exist to support various aspects of global health education.
Health Workforce Committee
Chair(s): Allison Squires & Susan Michaels-Strasser
The Health Workforce Committee conducts reviews, highlights problems, and studies aspects of the global health workforce.
Research Committee
Chair(s): Christine Ngaruiya & Paula Kilgore
CUGH recognizes the importance of collaborative, multidisciplinary research in academic global health. The Research Committee’s goal is to catalyze avenues for expanding collaborative, cross-cutting global health research and research training in priority areas, facilitate development of these collaborations among CUGH members, and facilitate dissemination of research for implementation. The Committee is dedicated to sharing, evaluating, and advancing strategies that promote global health research, global health equity, community-engaged approaches, and service. Additionally, the Committee is charged with assisting in reinforcing relationships with funding agencies and organizations. Current priority areas include Artificial Intelligence, Implementation Science and Capacity-Building for research in resource-limited settings. Past initiatives addressed anti-science views in society and research on climate change and health.
Global Health Operations Committee
Chair(s): Anna Helova & Richard Wamai
CUGH recognizes that facilitating administrative functions, processes, and services are vital to effectively supporting the global health enterprise.
The Global Health Operations Committee (GHOC) works to identify and develop guiding principles to enhance university and organizational administrations’ procedural and financial alignment with programmatic priorities in global health, education, research, and service activities.
The GHOC develops strategies to effectively respond to global opportunities and share best practices for, amongst other things:
- Managing international risk;
- Developing legal frameworks;
- Establishing and sustaining global health partnerships.
Operational Committees
CUGH's Operational Committees carry out processes and provide advice to CUGH's Board of Directors on topics of importance to the management of the organization.
Awards and Nominations Committee
Chair(s): Vacant
The Awards and Nominations Committee is responsible for organizing the election of new members to the CUGH Board of Directors, and the selection of CUGH Award winners.
Executive Committee
Chair(s): Nancy Reynolds
When the Board of Directors is not in session, the Executive Committee shall have and may exercise all of the powers of the Board of Directors.
Finance Committee
Chair(s): Philip Landrigan
The Finance Committee advises the Executive Director on the financial management of the organization. The Finance Committee reviews and approves the organization’s financial policies and procedures. The Committee reviews the annual budget and financial reports for submission to the Board of Directors for approval. Participation in the Committee involves regular monthly phone meetings as updates to the current financial status as well as additional meetings as needed for policy revision and review.
Membership Committee
Chair(s): Mike Reid
CUGH recognizes that in order to make its global health initiatives and partnerships viable and sustainable over time it needs to build a strong core comprising engaged members that share the CUGH vision. The Membership Committee will strive to build that membership core consistent with the CUGH mission.
The Membership Committee is responsible for identifying a strategy for growth and maintaining CUGH’s membership base.
Subcommittees
CUGH has five subcommittees that fall under the Education Committee.
Academic Partnership Program Initiative
Chair(s): Amy Moore & Teresa Machai Macete
The Academic Partnership Program Initiative (APPI) matches academic programs wishing assistance with those who can provide it.
Educational Products Subcommittee
Chair(s): Bhekumusa Lukhele & Kalimah Ibrahim
The Educational Products Subcommittee reviews, recommends and as appropriate, develops educational products; assures quality of products posted on CUGH’s website.
Global Health Competency Subcommittee
Chair(s): Oladele Ogunseitan & Shahanaz Chowdhury
The Global Health Competency Subcommittee defines global health competencies appropriate for several levels of training and job expectations, and proposes ways of using competencies in the design of global health curricula.
Subcommittee on Master’s and Undergraduate Degrees in Global Health
Chair(s): Meredith Gartin & Deborah DiLiberto
The CUGH Subcommittee on Master’s and Undergraduate Degrees in Global Health promotes standards of excellence for coursework, undergraduate minors, bachelor’s degrees, and master’s and doctoral degrees in global health; supports innovations in curriculum design, teaching, and experiential learning for global health at the undergraduate and master’s levels; and seeks to enhance CUGH’s value to member institutions.
Trainee Advisory Committee
Chair(s): Ayesha Ali & Hannah Stewart
The CUGH Trainee Advisory Committee (TAC) is a student/trainee run committee within CUGH that consists of ~25 students, trainees, and young professionals from around the world that come together to serve as the student/trainee voice to CUGH and contribute to addressing global health challenges through CUGH activities. Issues include: COVID-19, racial disparities and diversity, climate change, gun violence, student debt, and other global concerns. TAC members also work together alongside members of various CUGH committees in order to help meet committee objectives, find ways to create student collaborative projects with CUGH, and to provide the student perspective.
Interested in joining TAC? See the TAC Application section below under “Current Initiatives”.
Working Groups
CUGH’s working groups are open to all. CUGH membership is not required. If you are interested in joining a working group or would like to propose a new one, please contact info@cugh.org.
Equitable Opportunities in Clinical Education Working Group
Chair(s): James Hudspeth & Tracy Rabin
The CUGH Working Group on Equitable Opportunities in Clinical Education aims to improve bidirectionality in global health partnerships in professions that have clinical dimensions.
Global Health Educators Community (GHECo)
Chair(s): Kathryn Jacobsen & Caryl Waggett
The CUGH Global Health Educators Community (GHECo = “gecko”) provides professional development and networking opportunities for professors who teach global health courses, design curricula and experiential learning activities for nonclinical undergraduate and graduate programs, and oversee baccalaureate majors and minors, academic master’s degrees, and research-based doctoral degrees.
Global Health Geriatrics Working Group
Chair(s): Barbara Kamholz
Global Health Humanities Working Group
Chair(s): Quentin Eichbaum
The CUGH Global Health Humanities (GHH) Working Group seeks to explore global health through diverse humanities perspectives: history, literature, personal narrative, philosophy, ethics, creative arts, religious traditions, and cognitive and social sciences, in the effort to illuminate dimensions of human experience hitherto neglected in current global health activities and scholarship.
Global Oral Health Working Group
Chair(s): Irene Adyatmaka
Oral health is a major, neglected global health challenge. This working group identifies interdisciplinary ways in which the global health community can address inequalities in access to oral health particularly in low-income countries and low-income communities.
Planetary Health – One Health – Environmental Health Working Group
Chair(s): Wourtina Smith, Carlos Faerron, Keith Martin, & Corinne Wallace-Schuster
The threats to our planet, humans and indeed all species run across one health, environmental health and planetary health. This working group was created to enable members of the three communities to collaborate across advocacy, research, education, and service to improve the health of the people and our planet.