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Webinar: Effective Advocacy in Challenging Times, with ASPPH and the UN Foundation
April 2, 2026
In the lead‑up to CUGH2026, The Future of Global Health (April 9–12, www.cugh2026.org), CUGH hosting this webinar with two of our partners—the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health and the UN Foundation—focused on strategies and tactics to strengthen your advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill and in your community.
Featuring:
Beeta Rasouli, MPH, Director of Advocacy and Federal Affairs at ASPPH. Beeta drives legislative, regulatory, and policy issues that directly benefit and impact schools, programs, faculty, and students.
Rebecca Maxie, Director of Grassroots Advocacy at the UN Foundation. Rebecca serves as a strategic advisor for a variety of advocacy campaigns with over a decade of experience working on & managing political campaigns.
This webinar originally took place on March 24, 2026.
The America First Global Health Strategy: Leaving America Behind in Global Health Governance
March 18, 2026
The manuscript argues that the second Trump administration’s “America First Global Health Strategy” has accelerated the decline of U.S. leadership in global health by withdrawing from multilateral institutions, dismantling foreign assistance mechanisms, and undermining public health science, placing millions at risk.
Webinar: Appropriations & Advocacy: How to Influence U.S. Federal Spending
February 17, 2026
Understanding the U.S. federal appropriations process is essential for anyone advocating for stronger funding of global health programs and federal agencies. In the United States, Congress holds the “power of the purse,” determining how much money agencies can spend and on which programs.
This CUGH webinar breaks down how the appropriations process works, the annual timeline, and the key moments when advocates can have the greatest influence on federal funding decisions.
Featuring:
Alex Long, U.S. Policy & Advocacy Officer at the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC), this session offers an advocate’s perspective on navigating the process and answers common questions about engaging effectively.
This webinar originally took place on February 17, 2026.
Webinar: Addressing the Triple Environmental Health Crisis: A Way Forward
October 14th, 2025
Watch this dynamic planetary healthy symposium hosted by CUGH and partners, focused on tackling the triple environmental crisis—climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution—through innovative economic strategies and nature-based solutions.
Organizers:
Woutrina Smith – Associate Dean, Global Programs UC Davis
Carlos Faerron – Associate Director, Planetary Health Alliance, Johns Hopkins University
Catherine Machalaba – Planetary Health Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
Keith Martin – Executive Director, CUGH
Featured Speakers:
Pushpam Kumar – Chief Environmental Economist, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Carrie Monahan – Director of Natural Resources, Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians
Chris Overcash – Program Manager, Department of Environmental Health, Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan Patz – Director, Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mark Nieuwenhuijsen – Director of Urban Planning, Environmental Health Institute, ISGlobal
Explore open-access toolkits, online courses, case studies, and other materials curated by CUGH's Educational Products Subcommittee.
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Building forward better: a commentary from Dr. Keith Martin & Ms. Zoe Mullan
How do we build forward better post Covid-19? The Lancet Global Health editor Zoe Mullan and CUGH Executive Director Dr. Keith Martin aim to answer that in this commentary, in which they discuss specific reforms the global health community can adopt.
Shaping a new era of global health for greater impact: CUGH 2024 highlights
We thank the publishers and writers of BMJ Global Health for their insightful commentary on the key themes from the 2024 Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH 2024). This forward-looking piece provides valuable insights for CUGH 2025. Read the full article here. Article Summary CUGH 2024 highlighted critical global health inequities.
Unraveling Trust: The Human Impact of Shifting U.S. Global Health Priorities
A Working-Group White Paper report by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, Washington, DC, United States
A global matchmaking web platform facilitating equitable institutional partnerships and mentorship to strengthen health workforce training capacity
Experts J. Andrew Dykens, Keith Martin, Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde, Linda Kupfer, Zhuo (Adam) Chen, Nancy R. Reynolds, Aniruddh Behere, Suraj Bhattarai, Caryn E. Peterson, and Stevan Merill Weine wrote an article about a global matchmaking web platform that aims to facilitate equitable institutional partnerships and mentorship to strengthen health workforce training capacity in low-resource settings.
To be seen, heard, and valued. Active engagement as the next frontier for global health conference equity: a view from the global South
Read Barnabas Tobi Alayande’s Letter to the Editor of the Journal of Public Health in Africa.
Reinforcing priority setting and design and delivery of health services packages for universal health coverage
This document outlines the reasoning and strategic directions for a viable and sustainable technical cooperation approach to priority-setting, and the design and delivery of essential health services to achieve universal health coverage (UHC). The proposed approach is based on primary health care (PHC) and builds upon the concept, evidence, and experience accumulated by the Disease Control Priorities 3 (DCP3) Country Translation initiative.
Centering PEPFAR in U.S. Global Health Security Strategies
Report of the CSIS Working Group on Reinvigorating U.S. Leadership on HIV/AIDS.
Strengthening Nursing and Midwifery: A vital opportunity to improve health outcomes
This brief summarizes strategic recommendations and related resources that nursing workforce development bodies can utilize to advance the profession, organized SDNM report’s strategic directions: Education, Jobs, Leadership, and Service Delivery.
Redefining the Practice of Global Health: Insights from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2023 conference
We thank the publishers and writers of BMJ Global Health for their insightful commentary on the key themes from the 2024 Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH 2024). This forward-looking piece provides valuable insights for CUGH 2025. Read the full article here. Article Summary CUGH 2024 highlighted critical global health inequities.
Equity in Global Health Research Collaborations: Recommendations for Academic Institutions
This position statement provides specific recommendations to academic institutions on changes to promotion review and other administrative policies with the goal of achieving equitable research collaborations. These recommendations are intended to support individuals striving for fair partnerships and will provide motivation for inclusive engagement and co-creation between collaborative partners.
AD Workbench – a secure, cloud-based data sharing and analytics environment
AD Workbench – a secure, cloud-based data sharing and analytics environment – is the interoperability layer of the AD Data Initiative technical suite and its flagship product offering. Easy to use and available at no cost, AD Workbench empowers researchers around the world to share, access and analyze data across platforms.
Aging and aging-related diseases: from molecular mechanisms to interventions and treatments
Dementia prevention, intervention, and care: 2020 report of the Lancet Commission
Lifestyle changes can prevent dementia and cognitive decline
Dementia in Africa: Current evidence, knowledge gaps, and future directions
Dementia standards/guidelines/protocols
Dementia Education Programs
Aging Well: Solutions to the Most Pressing Global Challenges of Aging
Down syndrome
Dementia in Down syndrome: unique insights for Alzheimer disease research
Early life cognition, education and dementia risk
From Malnutrition to Brain Mastery: BENCI – Unlocking Potential for Educational Equity
The effects of height-for-age and HIV on cognitive development of school-aged children in Nairobi, Kenya: a structural equation modelling analysis
Academic Achievement and Satisfaction Among University Students With Specific Learning Disabilities: The Roles of Soft Skills and Study-Related Factors
Neurodiversity Training, Workshops and Online Courses
Autistic Community and the Neurodiversity Movement
Global Plan of Action for the Health of Indigenous Peoples
Indigenous health and wellbeing
Historic resolution calls for action to improve the health of Indigenous Peoples
One Health in Indigenous Communities: A Critical Review of the Evidence
The health threats facing Native communities call for culturally grounded solutions
Increasing participant diversity in AD research: Plans for digital screening, blood testing, and a community-engaged approach in the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 4
The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) aims to validate biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease (AD) clinical trials. To improve generalizability, ADNI4 aims to enroll 50-60% of its new participants from underrepresented populations (URPs) using new biofluid and digital technologies. ADNI4 has received funding from the National Institute on Aging beginning September 2022.
Antimicrobial Resistance and Social Inequalities in Health: Considerations of Justice
Locating Global Health In Social Medicine
Rethinking the Social History
Health Disparities in HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STDs and Tuberculosis, CDC
Social determinants of Health, WHO
White House SDOH Playbook
Addressing Health Related Social Needs in Communities Across the Nation
Framework to address SDOH
Concepts, disciplines and politics:On ‘structural violence’ and the ‘social determinants of health
Data, social determinants, and better decision-making for health
The report of the 3-D Commission
The social determinants of child and adolescent mental health
Social determinants of health and surgery
Mainstreaming the Social Determinants of Health in South Africa: Rhetoric or reality?
Social determinants and NCDs: time for integrated action
SDOH and NCDs, WHO
Climate Change as a Social Determinant of Health
Social determinants of health
Infectious diseases and social determinants
HarvardX: Global Health Case Studies from a Biosocial Perspective
Introduction to Collecting and reporting Adverse Events
Introduction to Collecting and reporting Adverse Events is a general introduction and overview of Adverse Events and how to deal with them when they occur.
The Study Protocol (Parts 1 & 2)
The Study Protocol (Parts 1 & 2) is a guide for researchers on the basic stages and concepts surrounding the creation of a protocol.
The Research Question
The Research Question targeted to clinical researchers, this course explores the main factors which affect and influence the development of a valid research question.
Research Ethics Online Training
Research Ethics Online Training provides a review of the responsibilities of researches to practice ethical research for global health.
Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trials in Health Care
Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trials in Health Care focuses on how pragmatic randomized controlled trials reliably determine which of the several healthcare interventions works best under real-world conditions.
Introduction to Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis
Introduction to Systematic Review & Meta-Analysis will introduce methods to perform systematic reviews and meta-analysis of clinical trials, including formulating an answerable research question, defining inclusion and exclusion criteria, searching for the evidence, extracting data, and assessing the risk of bias in clinical trials.
Introduction to Informed Consent
This course places informed consent within its historical context and outlines the regulations, guidelines and processes which arose from this background.
Introduction to Data Management for Clinical Research Studies
Introduction to Data Management for Clinical Research Studies is an overview and guide to data management aimed at everyone involved in clinical research.
Introduction to Clinical Research
Introduction to Clinical Research is an introductory overview aimed at everyone involved in clinical research with a focus on the main areas of why and how clinical research is carried out, the importance of ethics in research, and an outline of the five main clinical study designs.
Data Quality
Data Quality is an introduction to data quality is, why it is important, and what programs can do to improve it.
Data Safety and Monitoring Boards for Clinical Trials
Data Safety and Monitoring Boards for Clinical Trials is a review of the role of a Data Safety and Monitoring Board (DSMB) during a clinical trial.
Data Use for Program Managers
Data Use for Program Managers promotes data use for evidence-based HIV/AIDS program planning and improvement.
Data Visualization – An Introduction
Data Visualization – An Introduction teaches participants to identify their audience; find a story in a set of data appropriate for a target audience; understand the process of developing simple but compelling data visualizations; share and disseminate the visualization; and promote ongoing use of the data to inform decision-making.
Demographic and Health Surveys: Data Use
Demographic and Health Surveys: Data Use is an overview of the DHS [Demographic and Health Surveys] project so that program staff, policy makers, and researchers are better able to use the data to make evidence-based decisions.
Essential Elements of Ethics
Essential Elements of Ethics explores the relevant questions of ethics, research design, and community practice protocol for clinical research.
Good Clinical Laboratory Practice
Good Clinical Laboratory Practice an introduction to Good Clinical Laboratory Practice (GCLP) guidelines.
ICH Good Clinical Practice
ICH Good Clinical Practice examines the basic principles of GCP and how these principles can be applied practically in the research setting.
Diabetes- A Global Challenge
Diabetes- A Global Challenge discusses cutting-edge diabetes and obesity research including biological, genetic and clinical aspects as well as prevention and epidemiology of diabetes and obesity.
Global Health Initiative – Hypertension Awareness
Global Health Initiative – Hypertension Awareness focuses on the types of, root causes, symptoms, health implications, and treatment of hypertension.
Global Tobacco Control
Global Tobacco Control is an introduction to global tobacco uses in the health and economic spheres and focus on transnational tobacco control, epidemiology, and regulation.
Global Health Initiative – Diabetes Awareness
Global Health Initiative – Diabetes Awareness is a review of the major components to understanding diabetes.
PREMIUM Counselling for Alcohol Problems
PREMIUM Counselling for Alcohol Problems is a competency-based introduction to Counselling for Alcohol Problems. Provides the knowlege (through online didactics) and skills (through peer and mentored interactions) needed for primary and lay health care workers to deliver this treatment, develop skills to build patients’ motivation to change their drinking behaviour, provide harmful drinkers with skills to change their drinking behaviour, and to prevent and deal with relapses.
PREMIUM Healthy Activity Program
PREMIUM Healthy Activity Program is a competency-based introduction to Healthy Activity. Provides the knowledge (through online didactics) and skills (through peer and mentored interactions) for primary and lay health care workers to deliver treatment to patients with moderately severe to severe depression and how to teach patients strategies to solve their own problems.
Through my Eyes – Intellectual Disability Healthcare around the World
Through my Eyes – Intellectual Disability Healthcare around the World provides a focus on the stories of people with intellectual disabilities around the world, as well as their families and supporters.
Non-Communicable Diseases Curriculum to Enhance Health Literacy among Youth
M&E Frameworks for HIV/AIDS Programs
M&E Frameworks for HIV/AIDS Programs discusses how to develop an M&E framework that can be used to organize and implement various components of an M&E system.
M&E Fundamentals
M&E Fundamentals reviews what M&E [Monitoring & Evaluation] is, why it is important, and the basics of what it entails.
M&E Guidelines for Sex Workers, Men who Have Sex with Men, & Transgender Populations-National Level
M&E Guidelines for Sex Workers, Men who Have Sex with Men, & Transgender Populations-National Level explores the importance for improving M&E guidelines for sex workers, men who have sex with men, and transgender populations.
Measuring Health Outcomes in Field Surveys
Measuring Health Outcomes in Field Surveys explores the fundamentals of field-based health research through documentary-style learning at ongoing research projects in India and Kenya.
National Institute of Mental Health. (2020). I’m So Stressed Out! Infographic (NIMH Identifier No. OM 20-4319). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health
Helping Children and Adolescents Cope With Traumatic Events
Generalized Anxiety Disorder: When Worry Gets Out of Control
Brief Cognitive Training May Extend the Antidepressant Effects of Ketamine
The Social Context of Mental Health and Illness
The Social Context of Mental Health and Illness explores the socio-cultural factors which influence the onset and course of mental illness, and how mental health is perceived within a community or a society.
Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach
Major Depression in the Population: A Public Health Approach applies the principles of public health to mental disorders, using depression as the exemplar. Topic addressed include principles of epidemiology, transcultural psychiatry, health services research, and prevention.
Resilience in Children Exposed to Trauma, Disaster and War: Global Perspectives
Resilience in Children Exposed to Trauma, Disaster and War: Global Perspectives is a research-based course about resilience in children exposed to trauma, war, disasters, and other adversities. Attendees will also learn how to design specific interventions and programs to promote resilience.
Alcohol, Tobacco, and other Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care
Alcohol, Tobacco, and other Substance Use Disorders in Primary Care teaches about the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders, providing strategies to communicate with people seeking care as well as key tips for monitoring and follow-up care
Technical brief on strengthening the nursing and midwifery workforce to improve health outcomes: Government Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officers (GCNMOs) in the WHO European Region
Recognizing the critical contribution of the nursing and midwifery professions to health systems, population health and efforts to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and universal health coverage, and in response to World Health Assembly resolution WHA 74.15, this technical brief aims to: support governments to strengthen government chief nursing and midwifery officers (GCNMOs) in their countries; identify the current roles and responsibilities of GCNMOs and senior nursing and midwifery leaders in the WHO European Region; and explore the enablers to support GCNMOs and/or senior nursing and midwifery leaders to work more effectively to support improved health outcomes. The ultimate goal is to increase the impact of GCNMOs and senior nursing and midwifery leaders on health, social care and health workforce policy to improve health outcomes.
Bilateral agreements on health worker migration and mobility
Maximizing health system benefits and safeguarding health workforce rights and welfare through fair and ethical international recruitment.
Health labour market analysis guidebook
The health labour market analysis guidebook provides a comprehensive overview of the health labour market, offers guidance on how to analyse and understand its dynamics, and identifies key steps to undertake a health labour market analysis. It also facilitates the implementation of standardized health labour market analysis approaches in supporting countries to answer key policy questions relating to health and care workers.
Strengthening quality midwifery education for Universal Health Coverage 2030: Framework for action
The Framework for Action to Strengthen Midwifery Education is a guide to develop high-quality, sustainable pre- and in-service midwifery education to save the lives of mothers and newborns. Launched the 72nd World Health Assembly in May 2019, it has been developed by WHO, UNFPA, UNICEF and ICM and includes a seven-step action plan for use by all stakeholders in maternal and newborn health.
Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for Universal Health Coverage
The goal of this Global Competency and Outcomes Framework for UHC is to advance improvements in health and progress towards UHC through aligning health worker education approaches with population health needs and health system demands. More specifically, the primary objective of this document is to provide guidance for the specification of pre-service and in-service competency-based education outcomes for health workers, which in turn inform the development of relevant curricula, learning activities and assessment approaches.
New curricula package published for human resources for health practitioners
Geneva - WHO has published a prototype curricula package for institutions delivering programmes for current or aspiring leaders and managers of human resources for health.
New curricula package published for human resources for health practitioners
Health and care workers need safe, healthy, supportive and dignified conditions of work. The Global health and care worker compact provides recommendations on how to protect health and care workers and safeguard their rights; and to promote and ensure decent work, free from racial and all other forms of discrimination; and to provide a safe and enabling practice environment.
ISUOG (International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology) Practice Guidelines
ISUOG (International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology) Practice Guidelines - English
Malaria in Pregnancy
Malaria in Pregnancy provides health professionals with an overview of both the science and the programming associated with prevention and control of malaria in pregnancy (MIP).
Maternal Infections
Maternal Infections provides a discussion of maternal infections
Obstetric Fistula
Obstetric Fistula reviews the definition, epidemiology, etiology, prevention, diagnosis, and management of Obstetric Fistula.
Postpartum Care
Postpartum Care provides a review of postpartum care and corresponding care recommendations.
Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage
Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage orients participants to the causes of PPH [Postpartum Hemorrhage] and the evidence-based methods of preventing PPH.
Prenatal Testing – Multiple Languages
Postpartume Depression – Mutliple Languages
WHO recommendations on maternal and newborn care for a positive postnatal experience
Special Considerations for Highly Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers
Special Considerations for Highly Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers explores the role of “shocks” in the development of young children which can lead to developmental delays… [and] will explore the needs of children with HIV and/or disabilities and potential interventions for such children so that they can reach their developmental potential.
Summary of International Guidelines for Physical Activity Following Pregnancy
US Abortion and FP Requirements – 2017
US Abortion and FP Requirements – 2017 provides an overview of the US abortion and family planning legislative and policy requirements that govern US foreign assistance.
Good Governance in the Managing of Medicine
Governance and Health
Health Communication for Managers
Health Workforce Productivity: An Approach for Measurement, Analysis and Improvement
Human Resources for Health (HRH): Principles and Practices
Key Practices of Good Governance
Dependency to Partnership: It’s About Change
Dependency to Partnership: Leading/Managing Change
Toolkit Part 1: Implementation Science Methodologies and Frameworks – Fogarty International Center @ NIH
Toolkit Part 2: Participatory Research Models and Building Stakeholder Relationships – Fogarty International Center @ NIH
Toolkit Part 3: Dissemination Strategies in Evidence-based Policy and Practice – Fogarty International Center @ NIH
Implementation Research Tool Kit-WHO
Dissemination and Implementation Model
Dissemination and Implementation Model: An interactive, online resource designed to help researchers and practitioners navigate D&I theories, models, and frameworks (TMFs)
TDR Implementation Research Tool
Massive open online course on implementation research
Translational Science Benefits Model Tool Kit
Translation Science Tool Kit
Advancing translational science education
Implementation research: new imperatives and opportunities in global health
Implementation Research in Health: A Practical Guide
A guide to systems-level, participatory, theory-informed implementation research in global health
A more practical guide to incorporating health equity domains in implementation determinant frameworks
Making sense of implementation theories, models and frameworks
A scoping review of implementation science theories, models, and frameworks — an appraisal of purpose, characteristics, usability, applicability, and testability
Navigating the field of implementation science towards maturity: challenges and opportunities
Conceptual framework of equity-focused implementation research for health programs (EquIR)
The QUERI Roadmap for Implementation and Quality Improvement
Developing a framework of core competencies in implementation research for low/middle-income countries
What is Implementation Science?
Theories and Frameworks in Implementation Science
The struggle of translating science into action: Foundational concepts of implementation science
Opportunities and challenges in translational science
The Translational Science Benefits Model: A New Framework for Assessing the Health and Societal Benefits of Clinical and Translational Sciences
Translation Research in Practice: An Introduction
Barriers and facilitators of translating health research findings into policy in sub-Saharan Africa:
About Translational Science and Translational Science Resources and Education materials
Articulating the social responsibilities of translational science
Achieving the Goals of Translational Science in Public Health Intervention Research: The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST)
AIDS (II)
AIDS (I) is a review of the AIDS epidemic and its role in facing unique challenges in specific areas.
Antimicrobial stewardship programmes in health-care facilities in low- and middle-income countries: a WHO practical toolkit
Antimicrobial Resistance (Part 1)
Antimicrobial Resistance (Part 1) reviews the basic principles of AMR, the impact AMR has on individuals and society, and why it is a major public health concern.
Antimicrobial Resistance (Part 2)
Antimicrobial Resistance (Part 2) examines the major factors that contribute to the development and spread of AMR and the interventions available to address these factors.
Bacteria and Chronic Infections
Bacteria and Chronic Infections provides an introduction to bacteria and chronic infections.
Basic Malaria Microscopy
Basic Malaria Microscopy is a review of the basics of malaria microscopy.
Designing HIV Prevention Programs for Key Populations
Designing HIV Prevention Programs for Key Populations equips learners with a solid understanding of the basic knowledge, skills, and approaches required to design and implement HIV prevention programs for key populations.
Diarrheal Disease
Diarrheal Disease is a review of the epidemiology, prevention, and treatment of diarrhea.
Ebola: Essential Knowledge for Health Professionals
Ebola: Essential Knowledge for Health Professionals reviews the fundamental principles behind combatting Ebola.
Epidemics
Epidemics is a look at the fundamental scientific principles underlying epidemics and the public health actions behind their prevention and control in the 21st century.
Global Health – The Lessons of Ebola
Global Health – The Lessons of Ebola explores how multidisciplinary teams can work more effectively together to address global health needs.
Global Health eLearning Center – Infectious Diseases Certificate Program
Global Health Initiative – Hepatitis B Awareness
Global Health Initiative – Hepatitis B Awareness examines the disease nature, symptoms, risk factors, and prevention methods of hepatitis B.
Global Health Initiative – Hepatitis C Awareness
Global Health Initiative – Hepatitis C Awareness is a review of hepatitis C, including its symptoms and ways to prevent and treat this disease.
Global Health Initiative – Malaria Awareness
Global Health Initiative – Malaria Awareness is a review of malaria, from the lifecycle of the parasite to ways to diagnose and prevent this disease.
HIV Basic Biology, Epidemiology, and Prevention
HIV Basic Biology, Epidemiology, and Prevention is a review of the basics of HIV/AIDS biology, transmission, epidemiology, and prevention.
HIV Stigma and Discrimination
HIV Stigma and Discrimination explores HIV-related stigma and discrimination, including their importance and effects on behavior and HIV responses, promising practices for addressing them, and addresses the complex challenges that remain.
HIV/AIDS Legal and Policy Requirements
HIV/AIDS Legal and Policy Requirements provides an overview of the HIV/AIDS legislative and policy requirements that govern HIV and AIDS activities.
HIV/AIDS Surveillance
HIV/AIDS Surveillance is a background of the HIV epidemic, an overview of HIV surveillance systems and a basic understanding of HIV surveillance components.
National HIV Curriculum
OpenWHO Training – COVID-19 Online Training
OpenWHO Training – COVID-19 Online Training – In response to the pandemic, the WHO developed free courses in more than 60 languages with comprehensive topics related to the pandemic: Responding to COVID019, Infection Prevention and Control, Clinical Management, and Vaccines
Pandemic Etiology, Preparedness, and Response
SARS, Avian Influenza, and Swine Flu: Lessons and Prospects
SARS, Avian Influenza, and Swine Flu: Lessons and Prospects provides an overview of SARS, avian influenza, and swine flu as they relate to international health.
WHO Policy Guidance on Integrated Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities
WHO Policy Guidance on Integrated Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities – E-learning course of 4 modules, with each module focusing on a specific aspect of the WHO Policy Guidance on Integrated Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities.
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A historical overview (Partners in Health)
Malaria and Global Health
Malaria and Global Health – Narrated presentation video (with subtitles) presented by the North Dakota Public Health Training Network that offers certificate of completion upon completion of post-module assessment. Course is expected to take 1.5 hours and is for introductory level for public health workers.
Immune Responses to Vaccines – Basic Concepts
Foodborne Trematodiases and Global Health
Leishmaniasis and Global Health
Schistosomiasis and Global Health
Measles, Rubella and Global Health
Cryptosporidiosis and Global Health
Response to the AIDS Pandemic – A Global Health Model
How AIDS Invented Global Health
Self-learning course: Clinical diagnosis and Management of Dengue Fever
Dengue Clinical Case Management
Dialogues: A conversation with Peter Hotez
Global Arbovirus initiative: perparing for the next pandemic by tackling mosquito-borne viruses with epidemic and pandemic potential
Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases (ProMED)
You Call the Shots: Immunization Training Series
World AMR Awareness Week
WHO Policy Guidance on Integrated Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities
WHO Policy Guidance on Integrated Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities – E-learning course of 4 modules, with each module focusing on a specific aspect of the WHO Policy Guidance on Integrated Antimicrobial Stewardship Activities.
Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: A historical overview (Partners in Health)
Malaria and Global Health
Malaria and Global Health – Narrated presentation video (with subtitles) presented by the North Dakota Public Health Training Network that offers certificate of completion upon completion of post-module assessment. Course is expected to take 1.5 hours and is for introductory level for public health workers.
Antimicrobial resistance and the great divide: inequity in priorities and agendas between the Global North and the Global South threatens global mitigation of antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance and the great divide: inequity in priorities and agendas between the Global North and the Global South threatens global mitigation of antimicrobial resistance – This review, authored by a multinational group of infectious disease and public health experts, argues that the diverging resource availabilities, needs, and priorities of the Global North and the Global South in terms of the actions required to mitigate the antimicrobial resistance pandemic are a direct threat to success.
Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, testing, treatment, service delivery, and monitoring
Guidelines for HIV post-exposure prophylaxis
The Open-Source Medical Devices Website
The Open-Source Medical Devices Website provides free technical information for any interested user to build helpful devices for diagnosis and treatment for low- and middle-income countries.
Commercial Private Health Sector Basics
Commercial Private Health Sector Basics provides an introduction to the commercial for-profit private sector in health.
Fostering Change in Health Services
Fostering Change in Health Services builds the skills of those who are in a position to support change agents in health service delivery.
Good Governance in the Management of Medicines
Good Governance in the Management of Medicines examines the importance of good governance throughout the process of pharmaceutical management (selecting, procuring, distributing, and using medicines and other pharmaceutical products).
Healthy Businesses
Healthy Businesses discusses strategies that donors can use to design programs and implementers can use to deliver activities to ensure that commercial for-profit health care providers have the business, operational, and financial capacity to sustainably provide essential health services.
Human Resources for Health (HRH) Basics
Human Resources for Health (HRH) Basics is an introduction to the basic principles and promising practices related to human resources for health (HRH).
Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety
Improving Global Health: Focusing on Quality and Safety is designed for those who care about health and healthcare and wish to learn more about how to measure and improve care – for themselves, for their institutions, or for their countries.
Infrastructure for Good Governance
Infrastructure for Good Governance provides participants with the knowledge to develop and implement the organizational setup needed to ensure the good governance of all types of health service delivery organizations.
Total Market Approach
Total Market Approach Using practical examples, the course will guide USAID missions and other entities seeking to assist governments on how to use the total market approach concept to maximize resource use, increase access to priority health goods, and improve sustainability.
Health: A Political Choice
Health: A Political Choice edited by Prof. John Kirton and Ilona Kickbusch, free for download.
Research and Discussions in Critical Discourses and Remedies in Global Health Education
Editorial: Research and discussions in critical discourses and remedies in global health education
Research and Discussions in Critical Discourses and Remedies in Global Health Education
Editorial: Research and discussions in critical discourses and remedies in global health education
Improving Health Care Quality
Improving Health Care Quality is an introduction to principles and approaches that can help health care workers continually improve the work that they do and help to demystify improving health care, its underlying principles, and provide an overview of different approaches to improve health care.
How Does the Healthcare System Work During Outbreaks?
Global Health Systems – Health Systems: framework and context
Country Health Profiles (EU)
Strengthening Health Systems: A Practical Handbook for Resilience Testing
Transforming Health Service Delivery: What Can Policy-Makers Do To Drive Change
Learning Health Systems and the Impact on Health Workforce
New Zealand Health System Review
India Health System Review
COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor: Singapore
Sri Lanka Health System Review
Health Systems Strengthening
COVID-19 Health System Response Monitor: Indonesia
Governance Ethics in Healthcare Organizations
Leadership and Governance in Primary Healthcare
Healthcare as a Universal Human Right
International Hospital Federation
The Ethical Challenges Experienced by Healthcare Workers During the War in Syria
Leadership for Disaster Resilience
Johnson & Johnson Reporting Hub: Health for Humanity Report
The State of Women and Leadership in Health – Policy Report
BOARDS FOR ALL? A review of power, policy and people on the boards of organizations active in global health.
Improving Health Care in Low- and Middle -Income Countries
Fallibility at Work
Creating an Enabling Environment for Young Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers
Creating an Enabling Environment for Young Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers explores considerations for policymakers and how to create policies that support programming for young vulnerable children and their caregivers.
Early Childhood Development
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) is an overview of FGM/C (Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting) and examples of interventions that have worked—as well as those that have not worked—to encourage the abandonment of the practice.
Global Adolescent Health
Global Adolescent Health examines approaches to understanding the factors that affect adolescent health and well-being around the world.
Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy
Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy focuses on Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) practices.
HIV and Infant Feeding Counselling
HIV and Infant Feeding Counselling: A training course discusses how to work with breastfeeding mothers and infants affected by HIV.
Immunization: You Call the Shots
Immunization: You Call the Shots explores the disease nature and vaccination operations around Hepatitis A.
Improving the Lives of Young Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers
Improving the Lives of Young Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers is an introduction to the EP’s essential tools and building blocks and explains why monitoring and evaluation should target three different levels of intervention.
Integrated Early Childhood Development Programming for Young Vulnerable Children
Integrated Early Childhood Development Programming for Young Vulnerable Children reviews the importance of providing integrated care for young, vulnerable children, particularly in the context of HIV, and will discuss components and key steps of integrated early childhood development (ECD) programming.
Introduction to Early Childhood Development
Introduction to Early Childhood Development reviews childhood development, how HIV impacts the developmental trajectory of young children, and how, in the absence of intervention, children can suffer life-long consequences.
Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV reviews the basic elements of preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) that expand across the continuum of care – during antenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn care – and highlights key elements that must be addressed in programs.
Problem Solving for Immunization Programs
Problem Solving for Immunization Programs is an examination of why problems around immunization remain, despite larege scale improvements, and uses vaccine-delivery strategies and public health research to understand how we may productively respond to current problems.
Cervical Cancer Screening (Low Resource)
Reimagining Global Health: Financing How Refocusing Health Aid at the Margin Could Strengthen Health Systems and Futureproof Aid Financial Flows
WHO: Health Financing
Health financing is a core function of health systems that can enable progress towards universal health coverage by improving effective service coverage and financial protection.
United Nation’s Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) plays a central role in the preparation of young people for a safe, productive, fulfilling life in a world where HIV and AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STIs), unintended pregnancies, gender-based violence (GBV) and gender inequality still pose serious risks to their well-being. However, despite clear and compelling evidence for the benefits of high-quality, curriculum-based CSE, few children and young people receive preparation for their lives that empowers them to take control and make informed decisions about their sexuality and relationships freely and responsibly.
Guttmacher Institute Releases Sexual and Reproductive Health Profiles for More Than 130 Countries
Commitment to providing essential care for women and adolescents is critical to upholding sexual and reproductive rights during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. For the first time since its establishment, the Guttmacher Institute has published 132 country profiles highlighting country-specific sexual and reproductive health data from its Adding it Up body of work.
Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research (SRH)
The SHAPE questionnaire consists of a set of priority questions related to sexual practices, behaviours and health-related outcomes that are relevant and comprehensible to the general population. The questionnaire is a combination of interviewer-administered and self-administered modules, intended to be used across diverse global contexts.
Hunger in the World of Plenty
Hunger in the World of Plenty is a review of the world hunger situation and how it is measured, including its distribution and number of people affected, as well as the physiological, psychological, and behavioral consequences of starvation and related geopolitical issues affecting the world food systems including climate, war, disease, and refugees.
International Nutrition
International Nutrition is an examination of approaches that seek to improve nutritional status and focuses on ways to address factors that drive malnutrition.
Nutrition Transition and Global Food Issues
Nutrition Transition and Global Food Issues is a review of the world hunger situation and how it is measured, including its distribution and number of people affected, as well as the physiological, psychological, and behavioral consequences of starvation and related geopolitical issues affecting the world food systems including climate, war, disease, and refugees.
Principles of Human Nutrition
Principles of Human Nutrition examines nutrition, from its physiological roles in development and disease to its treatment at the policy level.
Stanford Introduction to Food and Health
Stanford Introduction to Food and Health reviews practical issues related to food and health and stresses the importance of positive food choices and home cooking.
The Biology of Water and Health – Fundamentals
The Biology of Water and Health – Fundamentals is a focus on the fundamentals of water and its relationship to human health.
The Biology of Water and Health – Sustainable Interventions
The Biology of Water and Health – Sustainable Interventions provides an interdisciplinary framework for understanding the place of water in health policy and engineering by delving into the complex social, economic, political and scientific factors that influence how we approach these critical health and water related challenges.
The Psychology, Biology, and Politics of Food
The Psychology, Biology, and Politics of Food provides a look at psychological issues of food and health promotion as it is compounded by politics and biology.
1st World Sepsis Congress Talks - Podcast
CSIS Podcast's
CSIS podcasts feature experts and scholars on a range of critical issues surrounding geopolitics, national security, defense, and international affairs topics.
Gapminder - A simple course on teh UN
Gapminder provides an extraordinary resource for visualizing changes over time in population characteristics, income, health status and much more. Link also through this site to see Hans Rosling’s informative and amusing TED talks, now up to seven and counting.
CSIS’ “Gaza: The Human Toll” series
This series has convened regularly during this crisis to capture clearly and accurately the evolving humanitarian and health situation inside Gaza, understand how the conduct of the conflict is shaping outcomes and future policy and operational choices, think carefully about what may lie ahead, and hear from key operational international agencies and NGOs providing humanitarian assistance, as well as other experts with vital insights.
Fistula – A film to promote better maternal health care globally.
Watch and share this impactful video that sheds light on the challenges in global maternal health. Almost all maternal deaths are preventable.
Preparedness for Humanitarian Disasters Conference
In May of 2023, the Centre for Global Surgery at Stellenbosch University in collaboration with Gift of the Givers, held a conference on Preparedness for Humanitarian Disasters in Cape Town, South Africa.
Improving Global Health Across Disciplines with Keith Martin, MD
As the founding executive director of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), Dr. Keith Martin, is working to break down silos and connect research, education, advocacy, and service to help create meaningful change for people and our planet. He talks with Dr. Murphy about his career in medicine and politics and why he thinks reforming academia can help solve some of the great challenges facing our world today.
The Lancet Countdown on Plastics and Health
The Lancet Countdown on Health and Plastics reveals the grave and growing threats plastics pose to human and planetary health across their entire lifecycle, contributing to disease, pollution, and climate change.
Global Health: Science and Practice
Global Health: Science and Practice is a is a no-fee, open access, peer-reviewed online journal aimed to improve health practice, especially in low- and middle-income countries. Its goal is to reach those who design, implement, manage, evaluate, and otherwise support health programs.
Springer Nature
Supporting researchers to open up every output from their research, including publications and preprints, data, code, protocols, methods, and peer review
Find a Map
Explore more than 800 maps brought to you by National Geographic.
Nation Master
Track thousands of statistics as and when they are released.
Population Council
We transform global thinking on critical health and development issues through social science, public health, and biomedical research.
Population Pyramid
Population Pyramid provides access to population pyramids for any country. Has a world population counter.
Population Reference Bureau
Population Reference Bureau provides detailed world and country specific population information, including downloadable PowerPoint presentations
United States Census Bureau: International Programs Center
The International Programs Center advances data-driven decision making through tools, capacity strengthening, and data products for the global statistical community.
National Library of Medicine
DOCLINE® is the National Library of Medicine's interlibrary loan (ILL) request routing system. The purpose of the system is to provide efficient document delivery service among libraries in the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM).
AllAfrica
AllAfrica — Provides a conduit of information on African issues and affairs not just health care related.
Canadian Association for Global Health
Canadian Association for Global Health has developed a Funding Road Map for Global Health Research. The Road Map contains summary information about funding sources for global health projects, including eligibility criteria, application procedures and contact information. Over 50 funding opportunities are listed, but you must register as a member to gain access.
Centers for Disease Control Travel Information
Centers for Disease Control Travel Information: Sections include: Reference Material (a wealth of information about diseases, locations, specific precautions); Disease Outbreaks; Additional Information; Geographic Health Recommendations.
The Center for Global Development
Center for Global Development: This group features lots of independent research on issues of climate change, debt relief, education, food and agriculture, economic growth and aid effectiveness by leaders in health and economics.
The Center for Reproductive Rights
The Center for Reproductive Rights is a legal organization taking cases to courts and human rights bodies, partnering with advocates, to protect reproductive health, self-determination, and dignity as basic human rights.
Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)
Cuba – Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC), founded in 1997 to bridge U.S. and Cuban medical communities, publishes MEDICC Review, a monthly online source in English of Cuban medical research and health news. MEDICC sponsored student field placements in the past and if travel restrictions ease, may do so again.
Demographic and Health Surveys
Demographic and Health Surveys, a government source for detailed surveys of many countries.
Gender Data Portal
The World Bank's Gender Data Portal makes the latest gender statistics accessible through compelling narratives and data visualization to improve the understanding of gender data nd facilitate analyses that inform policy choices.
Global Issues
Global Issues: social, political, economic and environmental issues that affect everyone.
Global Gazetteer
Global Gazetteer provides location, altitude (useful for assessing malaria risk) and much more information on virtually all locations in the world.
Global Vigilance, and Funds, Needed to Proven Pandemics
Global Vigilance, and Funds, Needed to Prevent Pandemics dives into outbreak warning systems and the dangers of defunding them.
The Planetary Health Alliance
The Planetary Health Alliance is catalyzing a global movement to create a livable future for humanity and the rest of life on earth.
Health Economics
Health Economics, a professional’s guide to resources and featured stories from around the world.
Hesperian Foundation
Hesperian Foundation publishes low cost, practical books (eg, “Where there is no doctor,” / dentist / midwife, etc.) for use in all aspects of GH practice at the community level.
HIFA (Healthcare Information for All)
HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), is a global social movement to improve the availability and use of healthcare information in low- and middle-income countries.
International Health Economics Association
IHEA’s Mission is to foster an inclusive global community of health economists, committed to strengthening the field, sharing ideas and resources, developing and applying economic theory and methods and generating evidence for improved, equitable health and health care.
Nature RX
Nature Rx is a grassroots movement dedicated to entertaining and informing people about the healing and humorous aspects of nature
Partners Infectious Disease Images
Partners Infectious Disease Images is a eMicrobes digital library.
Thomas Reuters Foundation
Thomas Reuters Foundation: global news and information provider. Independent journalism re: human right, women’s empowerment and international law with focus on under reported stories around the world. — trust.org
Work Bank Open Access Resources
Explore a wealth of open-access resources from the World Bank covering diverse economic and financial topics, country reports, and global policy. The World Bank’s Open Knowledge Repository (OKR) is your gateway to their research outputs.
International Monetary Fund Open Access Resources
Explore a wealth of open-access resources from the IMF covering diverse economic and financial topics, country reports, and global policy. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) offers publications such as departmental papers, working papers, and eLibrary materials.
Resources on Geriatric Care Capacity Building in LMICs
Geriatric care is a problem in low- and middle-income countries. Capacity building is a solution. Please see and share these two papers from CUGH Workforce Capacity Building Subcommittee Members Dr. Barbara Kamholz & Dr. Suraj Bhattarai.
Early Childhood Development
Global Problems of Population Growth - Female Disadvantage
In East and South Asia there are many more boys than girls. Previously, this resulted from female infanticide, now it is sex-selective abortion. In those cultures, girls generally marry out of the family as teenagers and thus provide no benefit for the family that raised them. Bangladesh is agriculturally very rich, but its population is so dense that per capita income is one of the lowest in Asia. Despite the poverty, an excellent family planning program has greatly reduced fertility.
Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C)
Community-based approaches for eliminating harmful traditional practices affecting women’s health
Global Adolescent Health
Global Adolescent Health examines approaches to understanding the factors that affect adolescent health and well-being around the world.
Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy
Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy focuses on Healthy Timing and Spacing of Pregnancy (HTSP) practices.
Improving the Lives of Young Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers
Improving the Lives of Young Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers is an introduction to the EP’s essential tools and building blocks and explains why monitoring and evaluation should target three different levels of intervention.
Integrated Early Childhood Development Programming for Young Vulnerable Children
Integrated Early Childhood Development Programming for Young Vulnerable Children reviews the importance of providing integrated care for young, vulnerable children, particularly in the context of HIV, and will discuss components and key steps of integrated early childhood development (ECD) programming.
Introduction to Early Childhood Development
Introduction to Early Childhood Development reviews childhood development, how HIV impacts the developmental trajectory of young children, and how, in the absence of intervention, children can suffer life-long consequences.
Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV reviews the basic elements of preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) that expand across the continuum of care – during antenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn care – and highlights key elements that must be addressed in programs.
Newborn Sepsis
Comprehensive approach to preventing and managing life-threatening infections in newborns
Promising Programmatic Approaches for Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (AYSRH)
Promising Programmatic Approaches for Adolescent and Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health (AYSRH) provides an overview of promising approaches as well as case studies of effective programs that improve young people’s sexual and reproductive health.
Special Considerations for Highly Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers
Special Considerations for Highly Vulnerable Children and Their Caregivers explores the role of “shocks” in the development of young children which can lead to developmental delays… [and] will explore the needs of children with HIV and/or disabilities and potential interventions for such children so that they can reach their developmental potential.
Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health
Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health provides an introduction to key sexual and reproductive health issues of youth, including the relationship between gender norms and health and an overview of the best programmatic approaches for improving young people’s sexual and reproductive health.
Supercourse: Epidemiology, the Internet, and Global Health
SuperCourse(SC) is a repository of JIT lectures (COVID-19 for example) as well lectures and research methods materials on global health and other areas of science designed to improve the teaching of prevention worldwide and increase number of scientific publications. Supercourse has a network of about 2 million scientists in 174 countries (together with BA African Networks) who are sharing for free a library of more than 203,050PowerPoint lectures in 38 languages (together with Science Supercourse). The Supercourse was prepared at the Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh under the guidance of Professor Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D.
Food and Nutrition Policy
Food and Nutrition Policy focuses on ways policy directly and indirectly affects nutrition.
Young Sexual and Reproductive Health
Adolescent Sexual Health
Cervical Cancer Prevention (Low-Resource Settings)
Low-cost screening and single-visit treatment approaches for resource-limited cervical cancer prevention
Community Based Family Planning
Gender and Sexual and Reproductive Health 101
Family Planning Contracting
Family Planning 101
US Abortion 2017
Hormonal Contraception
Sexual and Gender Minority Terms and Concepts
This module is part of a series developed by Harvard Medical School. To get started, click on Take this Course to enroll, then click on the name of the module under Course Content below to begin.
Sexual and Gender Minority Health Inequities
This module is part of a series developed by Harvard Medical School. To get started, click on Take this Course to enroll, then click on the name of the module under Course Content below to begin.
Standard Days Method®
Natural fertility awareness method implementation for expanding contraceptive options
Reimagining Global Health: Financing How Refocusing Health Aid at the Margin Could Strengthen Health Systems and Futureproof Aid Financial Flows
Health aid has helped domestic financing achieve historic gains in global health but there
is much still to be done. Six major issues currently prevent aid from being more effective,
fit for the future, and aligned with country priorities, namely: funding volatility, aid
fragmentation, the displacement of domestic finance, ineffective prioritization, the lack
of transition planning, and the lack of country ownership.
WHO: Health financing
Health financing is a core function of health systems that can enable progress towards universal health coverage by improving effective service coverage and financial protection. Today, millions of people do not access services due to the cost. Many others receive poor quality of services even when they pay out-of-pocket. Carefully designed and implemented health financing policies can help to address these issues. For example, contracting and payment arrangements can incentivize care coordination and improved quality of care; sufficient and timely disbursement of funds to providers can help to ensure adequate staffing and medicines to treat patients.
Global Health Education Amidst COVID-19: Disruptions and Opportunities
This viewpoint examines the impact of COVID-19 travel bans and remote education on the global health education of students from high-income countries (HIC) and low- and middle-income countries (LMIC) and explores potential opportunities for strengthening global health education based upon more dispersed and equitable practices. Global health is unique in the opportunities it can offer to students during the pandemic if programs can manage and learn from the pandemic’s many challenges. Global health educators can: shift to sustainable remote engagement and mobilize resources globally to facilitate this; collaborate with partners to support the efforts to deal with the current pandemic and to prepare for its next phases; partner in new ways with health care professional students and faculty from other countries; collaborate in research with partners in studies of pandemic related health disparities in any country; and document and examine the impact of the pandemic on health care workers and students in different global contexts. These strategies can help work around pandemic travel restrictions, overcome the limitations of existing inequitable models of engagement, and better position global health education and face future challenges while providing the needed support to LMIC partners to participate more equally.
The Art of Medicine: Will Global Health Survive its Decolonization?
mHealth Basics: Introduction to Mobile Technology for Health focuses on mHealth applications commonly used in developing country contexts.
Addressing power asymmetries in global health: Imperatives in the wake of the COVID19 pandemic
The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the growing calls to decolonise and address reports of structural racism within humanitarian, development, international aid, and global health agencies are opening doors for uncomfortable but important conversations [1–14]. They are revealing serious asymmetries of power and privilege (Fig 1) that permeate all aspects of global health.
Wellcome's anti-racist principles, guidance and toolkit
Wellcome has developed this resource to help us achieve racial equity in our organisation and work. This is not legal advice, it is a framework for how to be anti-racist at Wellcome and when engaging with Wellcome.
Planetary Health Case Studies
The Planetary Health Case Studies from the Planetary Health Alliance provide an opportunity for learners and educators to effectively connect theory with practice and broad knowledge with local realities.
Indoor Air Pollution Training Materials
Indoor Air Pollution Training Materials includes presentations from faculty experts in academia, nongovernmental organizations, NIH and other government agencies discussing cookstoves and emissions testing to about 20 trainee scientists from the U.S. and seven developing countries.
Bureau for Global Health Environmental Management Process Training
Bureau for Global Health Environmental Management Process Training is an introduction to the GH Bureau Operating Procedure for Initial Environmental Examination (IEE) process and a roadmap for how to plan and implement health programs consistent with the Agency’s legal requirements according to 22 CFR 216 and ADS 204.
Climate Change and Health
Climate Change and Health is a competency-based introduction to Climate Change and Health. Provides the knowledge (through online didactics) and skills (through peer and mentored interactions) needed to understand how climate change affects public health and discuss adaptation and mitigation strategies.
Environmental Health
Environmental Health is a competency-based introduction to Environmental Health. Provides the knowledge (through online didactics) and skills (through peer and mentored interactions) needed for graduate students in public health or medicine.
The Health Effects of Climate Change
The Health Effects of Climate Change discusses global warming impacts of human health, and the ways we can diminish those impacts. (2020) Harvard University EdX, a non-profit, relies on verified certificates to help fund free education for everyone globally.
War and Health
War and Health is a competency-based introduction to War and Health. Provides the knowledge (through online didactics) and skills (through peer and mentored interactions) needed for students of public health or medicine to understand the direct and indirect effects of war on public health.
Public Health in Humanitarian Crises Part 1
Public Health in Humanitarian Crises Part 2
WHO Health Emergencies Current and Past
Health Research in Humanitarian Crises
Health in Humanitarian Crises
Large-scale humanitarian crises are ongoing in Syria, Afghanistan, Central African Republic, DR Congo, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen among others. This Lancet Series of four papers and accompanying Comments assesses the evidence base for health interventions in humanitarian crises and finds significant variations in the quantity and quality of evidence. It brings together lessons learned from recent failures in humanitarian crises to provide recommendations to improve a broken system. It calls for action to put the protection of humanitarian workers front and centre, to align humanitarian interventions with development programmes, to improve leadership and coordination, to ensure timely and robust health information, and to make interventions more efficient, effective, and sustainable.
Humanitarian Emergencies
In humanitarian crises, whether driven by conflict, climate change, natural disasters or public health emergencies, sexual and reproductive health needs are too often neglected, with devastating consequences. Without access to prenatal, safe delivery and emergency obstetric care, pregnant women face life-threatening complications. Women and girls are at heightened risk of sexual violence and exploitation, along with increased vulnerability to HIV infection, yet they are frequently cut off from essential protection services. Many lose access to family planning, leaving them at greater risk of unintended pregnancies in perilous conditions.
UN Agency for Refugees
Older people in disasters and humanitarian crises: Guidelines for best practice
This 27-page report provides extensive guidelines that are based on international research with a global disaster perspective. The guidelines recommend how the humanitarian community can meet the needs of older people and include strategies for supporting older people in contributing to disaster recovery for their families and communities.
Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health
Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health provides a foundation to epidemiology and the study of the distribution and determinants of disease and health.
HIV Basic Biology, Epidemiology, and Prevention
HIV Basic Biology, Epidemiology, and Prevention is a review of the basics of HIV/AIDS biology, transmission, epidemiology, and prevention.
Mortality Surveillance Methods & Strategies
Mortality Surveillance Methods & Strategies provides participants with a basic understanding of the importance and usefulness of mortality data and introduce a range of approaches to collecting such data.
Hunger in the World of Plenty
Hunger in the World of Plenty is a review of the world hunger situation and how it is measured, including its distribution and number of people affected, as well as the physiological, psychological, and behavioral consequences of starvation and related geopolitical issues affecting the world food systems including climate, war, disease, and refugees.
Nutrition Transition and Global Food Issues
Professor Brownell talks about the situation with world hunger and how it is measured. He reviews the world distribution of hunger, from how many people are affected, to the physiological, psychological, and behavioral consequences of starvation. He reviews how geopolitical issues affect the world food systems in different parts of the world, including climate, war, disease, and refugees.
Stanford Introduction to Food and Health
Stanford Introduction to Food and Health reviews practical issues related to food and health and stresses the importance of positive food choices and home cooking.
The Psychology, Biology and Politics of Food
This course encompasses the study of eating as it affects the health and well-being of every human. Topics include taste preferences, food aversions, the regulation of hunger and satiety, food as comfort and friendship, eating as social ritual, and social norms of blame for food problems. The politics of food discusses issues such as sustainable agriculture, organic farming, genetically modified foods, nutrition policy, and the influence of food and agriculture industries. Also examined are problems such as malnutrition, eating disorders, and the global obesity epidemic; the impact of food advertising aimed at children; poverty and food; and how each individual's eating is affected by the modern environment.
UKCDS Report on finding and building effective and equitable research collaborations or partnerships
This report explores the role that funders play throughout the research lifecycle to select & build partnerships. Seven in-depth case studies exemplify the range of programmes & structures used.
Guidelines on Research Fairness for Swiss Researchers and Funders
This Guide supports research partners to develop ethically sound, efficient and effective partnerships.
The Research Fairness Initiative’s summary, reporting, and implementation guides to self-report fair research partnerships practice
ETHICA-4P: Supporting ethical research and clinical practice
Working in complex contexts brings us face to face with many challenges in supporting ethical practice and making ethical choices. ETHICA-4P: an Ethics Toolkit for Harnessing Integrity in Complex Arenas (ETHICA) through the consideration of Place, People, Principles and Practice (4P's).
Guidance on Safeguarding in International Development Research
Professor Alex Balch, Dr Surekha Garimella, Dr Bintu Mansaray, Linnea Renton MPH, Adriana Smith MPH and Dr Leona Vaughn – University of Liverpool Consultation Delivery Team
Everyone involved in the international development research chain, from research funders, planners and practitioners to local community members, has the right to be safe from harm.
To contribute to wider efforts across the international development sector being made to tackle this issue, UK funders of ODA research worked with UKCDR to develop a set of principles and best practice guidance on safeguarding to anticipate, mitigate and address potential and actual harms in the funding, design, delivery and dissemination of research.
This guidance is needed to ensure the highest safeguarding standards in the context of international development research, which presents specific situations in which harms that can occur are different to international development more broadly.
UKRIO Recommended Checklist for Researchers
This Checklist by the UK Research Integrity Office lists the key points of good practice for a research project and is applicable to all subject areas. More detailed guidance is available in our Code of Practice for Research.
WHO Standards and operational guidance for ethics review of health-related research with human participants
This document is intended to provide guidance to research ethics committees on which organizations rely to review and oversee the ethical aspects of research, as well as to the researchers who design and carry out health research studies.
WMA Declaration of Helsinki – Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Participants
The World Medical Association (WMA) has developed the Declaration of Helsinki as a statement of ethical principles for medical research involving human participants, including research using identifiable human material or data. The Declaration is intended to be read as a whole, and each of its constituent paragraphs should be applied with consideration of all other relevant paragraphs. While the Declaration is adopted by physicians, the WMA holds that these principles should be upheld by all individuals, teams, and organizations involved in medical research, as these principles are fundamental to respect for and protection of all research participants, including both patients and healthy volunteers.
International Ethical Guidelines for Health-related Research Involving Humans
CIOMS, in association with WHO, undertook its work on ethics in biomedical research in the late 1970s. Accordingly, CIOMS set out, in cooperation with WHO, to prepare guidelines. The aim of the guidelines was (and still is) to provide internationally vetted ethical principles and detailed commentary on how universal ethical principles should be applied, with particular attention to conducting research in low-resource settings. The outcome of the CIOMS/WHO collaboration was entitled Proposed International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Research Involving Human Subjects.
Sepsis survivors call for the development of a European sepsis plan
On World Sepsis Day 2024, European sepsis patient groups, sepsis survivors, and grieving families, united in the Sepsis Stronger Together consortium, launched the Paris Declaration with a call to action to the European leaders. Every 2·8 s, someone in the world dies of sepsis and every year sepsis affects 3 million people in the European region. Survivors of sepsis often experience life-changing consequences, such as amputations, organ dysfunction, post-traumatic stress disorder, and neurocognitive and psychological long-term effects. Scientific literature has substantiated the incommensurable burden of such consequences on society and the economy, underscoring the urgent need for comprehensive support for survivors and their families.
The Lancet publishes series on paediatric sepsis
Sepsis—the dysregulated host response to infection that leads to life-threatening organ dysfunction—is a leading cause of childhood morbidity and mortality. The 2024 release of the new Phoenix Criteria for paediatric sepsis will improve research standardisation, benchmarking, and quality improvement—crucial steps towards evidence-based prevention, diagnosis, and treatment and ultimately reducing the burden of sepsis. This cross-journal Series between The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health and The Lancet Digital Health unequivocally calls for targeting paediatric sepsis as a key contributor to poor health outcomes through strengthened collaboration and tailored initiatives. From shedding light on age-specific developmental aspects of childhood sepsis susceptibility to navigating novel digital solutions that could transform real-time support systems, this Series presents the case for sustainable and scalable quality improvement across paediatric critical care and a research roadmap to ending sepsis as a threat to child health globally.
Global, regional, and national sepsis incidence and mortality, 1990–2017: analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study
Sepsis is life-threatening organ dysfunction due to a dysregulated host response to infection. It is considered a major cause of health loss, but data for the global burden of sepsis are limited. As a syndrome caused by underlying infection, sepsis is not part of standard Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) estimates. Accurate estimates are important to inform and monitor health policy interventions, allocation of resources, and clinical treatment initiatives. We estimated the global, regional, and national incidence of sepsis and mortality from this disorder using data from GBD 2017.
A call for diversity, equity, and inclusion: Highlights from the Consortium of Universities for Global Health 2021 conference
The first virtual Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) 2021 conference was held in March, 2021. Two weeks of satellite symposia culminated in this highly prestigious conference, which drew an eclectic group of renowned speakers, global health leaders, program implementers, researchers, and students from across the globe. There were more than 5000 delegates from diverse disciplines including public health, politics, education, medicine, planetary health, and finance. Top of the agenda was addressing critical gaps in global health and development against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global health research training and education
The foreign gaze: authorship in academic global health
There is a problem of gaze at the heart of academic global health. It is difficult to name. Replace the word ‘white’ in the Toni Morrison quotes above with the word ‘foreign’, and you may see what I mean. Better still, read on. Because without naming this problem, we cannot have holistic discussions on imbalances in the authorship of academic global health publications. Recent bibliometric analyses (some of which have been published in BMJ Global Health) confirm patterns that are largely explained by entrenched power asymmetries in global health partnerships—between researchers in high-income countries (often the source of funds and agenda) and those in middle-income and especially low-income countries (where the research is often conducted). But we cannot talk about authorship without grappling with who we are as authors, who we imagine we write for (ie, gaze), and the position or standpoint from which we write (ie, pose).
Building global health research capacity to address research imperatives following the COVID-19 pandemic
Research and development of new tools and interventions are necessary to improve global health, as has been made apparent by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. As of mid-July 2021, there have been nearly 190 million cases reported worldwide and more than 4 million deaths; and yet, less than a year after the outbreak was first reported, in an unprecedented global effort, researchers had developed home rapid self-tests, established treatment protocols proven effective to improve survival, and discovered highly effective vaccines that are already being produced and administered at a large scale.
Doing research differently: reshaping research in the time of COVID-19
How is COVID-19 causing development research projects to be done differently? Ahmed Sarki, Lesley Gittings, John Young and Verity Warne share some reflections from two projects that are engaging with teenagers in South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria.
Anti-Science Resource Sheet
For addressing anti-science attitudes and misinformation use this Anti-Science Resource Sheet.
Guide for Countering Anti-Science Attitudes and Handling Misinformed Views
For addressing anti-science attitudes and misinformation use this Anti-Science Resource Sheet.
Fogarty International Center’s E-Learning Materials for Global Health Researchers
Many organizations offer no- and low-cost e-learning resources to those working in the field of global health research. Resources include training courses, MOOCs and course materials (presentations, videos, reading lists, visual aids, articles), resource centers and resource networks.
Mentoring and mentorship training news, resources and funding for global health researchers
NIH recognizes the importance of mentorship in scientific research. Unfortunately, in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), formal mentoring is not often adequately supported by institutions, or included in formal training programs.
A recent supplement to The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Mentoring in low- and middle-income countries to advance global health research , was inspired by a series of mentorship training workshops hosted in LMICs by the faculty of Fogarty’s Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars. The supplement encourages LMIC research organizations to institutionalize mentorship training. It offers a formalized framework, identifies competencies, features case studies, and includes reviews of 18 existing global health mentoring toolkits .
Mentorship resources produced through NIH entities and NIH-supported programs may also be helpful to global health researchers. The National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) provides researchers across all career stages with evidence-based mentorship and professional development programming.
2021 NIH Virtual Seminar Presentation Materials
Seminar Session Presentations:
NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration held Nov. 1-4, 2021
Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR)
The Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research (IPPCR) course trains participants on how to effectively and safely conduct clinical research. The course focuses on the spectrum of clinical research and the research process by highlighting biostatistical and epidemiologic methods, study design, protocol preparation, patient monitoring, quality assurance, ethical and legal issues, and much more. This course will be of interest to physicians, scientists, medical and dental students, nurses, public health professionals, and others conducting or planning a career in clinical research.
Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health
The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health is a three-part multidisciplinary timeline-based, interactive, evaluative, open-access course to prepare students and trainees to safely and effectively participate in global health learning experiences. The course is free-of-charge and generate a Credly Badge upon successful completion.
HarvardX: Global Health Case Studies from a Biosocial Perspective
This introductory global health course aims to frame global health's collection of problems and actions within a particular biosocial perspective. It develops a toolkit of interdisciplinary analytical approaches and uses them to examine historical and contemporary global health initiatives with careful attention to a critical sociology of knowledge. Four physician-anthropologists - Paul Farmer, Arthur Kleinman, Anne Becker, and Salmaan Keshavjee - draw on experience working in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and the Americas to investigate what the field of global health comprises, how global health problems are defined and constructed, and how global health interventions play out in both expected and unexpected ways.
Business Models for Innovative Care for Older People
Innovating Solutions for Aging Populations discusses health care innovation within the theme of ‘healthy living and active aging’, covering both the medical and the commercial aspects of innovations.
mHealth Basics: Introduction to Mobile Technology for Health
mHealth Basics: Introduction to Mobile Technology for Health focuses on mHealth applications commonly used in developing country contexts.
Global Surgery ProeCon Debate: A Pathway to Bilateral Academic Success or the Bold New Face of Colonialism?
Global surgery, especially academic global surgery, is of tremendous interest to many surgeons. Classically, it entails personnel from high-income countries going to low- and middle-income countries and engaging in educational activities as well as procedures. Academic medical personnel have included students, residents, and attendings. The pervasive notion is that this is a winewin situation for the volunteers and the hosts, that is, a pathway to bilateral academic success. However, a critical examination demonstrates that it can easily become the bold new face of colonialism of a low- and middle-income country by a high-income country.
Capacity Building STAR Project: Landscape Analysis
The USAID funded STAR Project in which CUGH was a sub released its Landscape Analysis which looked at the capacity needs of academic institutions in the US and in LMICs with respect to developing effective global health engagements.
Capacity Building STAR Project: Comprehensive Review of Academic Partnerships
This review was conducted in partnership with CUGH’s STAR Committee. We are grateful to the members of CUGH’s STAR Committee who contributed to these reports which may be of use to anyone developing collaborations between academic institutions.
Capacity Building STAR Project: Capacity Assessment Toolkit for Enhanced Knowledge Sharing
Capacity Building STAR Project: Partnership Assessment Toolkit
Capacity Building STAR Project: Partnership Assessment Toolkit Companion Document
Capacity Building STAR Project: Final Program Report: May 2018-July 2024
The Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources (STAR) program, launched by USAID’s Global Health Bureau in 2018 and concluded in 2024, was designed to strengthen global health systems by supporting professionals and organizations through fellowships, internships, and strategic partnerships. Over the course of the program, STAR successfully recruited and supported 330 global health professionals, who contributed technical leadership and expertise across various health domains. Managed by a consortium led by the Public Health Institute (PHI), in collaboration with key partners such as Johns Hopkins University, UCSF, CUGH, and others, STAR played a critical role in enhancing global and local health capacities, particularly in resource-limited settings, to better respond to diseases, epidemics, and pandemics.
Grassroots Advocacy: How to write an Op-Ed
Developed by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and presented by Dean Tricia Serio (University of Massachusetts Amherst), this webinar carries viewers through the various steps of writing an op-ed, including who’s the audience for the op-ed, choosing a perspective to write from (i.e., a global health scientists), developing a “news hook,” and finding a venue for the op-ed. Dr. Serio also discusses the importance of sharing one’s pieces through social media after it is written. This a great webinar for NAA and STAT members interested in learning more about crafting op-eds.
Op-Ed Writing, Submission, and Pitching Resources
To better help you pitch your op-eds, The Op-Ed Project offers submission information about top online and print publications in the US. Many publications are open to op-ed submissions. They also provide suggestions to help you as you formulate your ideas.
Communicating with the Public, Media and Stakeholders
This online training designed to strengthen the global health community’s understanding of how to effectively communicate complex ideas to the general public. In this training, we examine the core elements of what outside audiences need to understand as well as how to craft appealing messages. We discuss specific venues for communicating your messages, such as letters to the editor, social media, traditional media, with legislators and more. You will come away from this training with enhanced skills for reaching out to influencers in your community—and beyond!
Speaking with the Public
Designed by the Center for Disease Control, this online module provides academics with best practices for communicating on health topics.
Public Speaking
This online course, hosted by the Rochester Institute of Technology, offers information on the fundamentals of strong public speaking. Although one’s work with a legislature’s office is often one-on-one, this online course provides insights that are important regardless of the audience’s size.
Best Practices in Storytelling for Advocacy
This online webinar led by Narativ and Open Society discusses how storytelling plays a critical role within advocacy to enable policy change.
Briefing Policymakers on Science-Related Issues
This article provides insightful tips for how to go about preparing a briefing paper on a scientific paper for busy policymakers. The article involves a step-by-step approach, as well as offering specific areas to be aware of when writing a briefing paper.
Webinar: Training for Advocacy on the US Capitol Hill
Organized by GHTC and CUGH, this session instructs on how to advocate for Global Health R&D on the Capitol Hill with your elected officials.
Global Health Advocacy Guide
Written by The University of California’s Global Health Institute, this document outlines tips and practices for successful global health advocacy.
Webinar: Engaging with Congress
Learn from 25-year Capitol Hill veteran, Stephanie Vance, on how to effectively engage with your elected officials. This session provides updates on current policy issues (as of September 2020), advice on researching your legislators, and best practices/techniques for developing a winning message. Stephanie shares strategies for successfully delivering your messages. Your voice is more important than ever in addressing the challenges we are facing. This training will strengthen your effectiveness on Capitol Hill.
Tools for Academic Engagement in Public Policy
This online course designed by MIT professors describes how legislation matriculates through the US government, including how Capitol Hill offices work with academic experts, and the vital role academics can play in shaping policies. The instructors also provide various suggestions on how academics can craft their “ask” most effectively.
Webinar: ESEP Webinar Working with your State Legislature
Hosted by Engaging Scientists and Engineers in Policy (ESEP), Dr. Chris Rothfuss, Minority Floor Leader for the Wyoming State Legislature, and Dr. Debra Cooper, Policy Consultant for the California State Senate, discuss how scientists can become involved in their state legislatures. The speakers describe their own experiences in public policy and provide various suggestions based on their experience. This is an informative webinar for those interested in CUGH’s STAT or individuals who are already members of the advisory team.
Course: How to Communicate with Congress
This course developed by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) explains how to effectively communicate to members of Congress. Led by Sean Gallagher, Senior Government Relations Officer at AAAS, he covers why scientists should talk to policymakers, the organizational structure of Congressional offices, how best to write an influential letter, call one’s Congressperson, or arrange a meeting, as well as the need to follow up after initial engagement. Gallagher also incorporates various AAAS experts who have experience on Capitol Hill to discuss their Congressional experiences and tips.
Webinar: Using Global Health Competencies and Tools: Program Implementation Case Studies
October 1, 2019
CUGH Competency Sub-Committee has defined, researched, and provided tools to support seminal competencies in Global Health for use in developing programs, courses, assignments, and evaluation. This webinar will assist faculty and administrators in seeing how the competencies can be utilized, consider application for new programs/courses, and get insights from colleagues into how to develop and deliver competency-based global health education.
Webinar: Educational Equity: Improving Access to Short-Term Clinical Education for Non-US Physicians
September 19, 2019
Equity is a driving force in global health, but in many educational partnerships, various barriers prevent bilateral exchanges. The webinar will explore the various barriers that prevent international physicians from engaging in short-term clinical experiences in the United States, and lay out steps that CUGH members can take to reduce these obstacles at their state and institution level.
Webinar: Implementing Effective Capacity Building Partnerships in Global Health
December 18, 2018
Enabling high quality health professions education is key to ensuring high quality healthcare globally. Educational partnerships between high and low resource settings have been one way to try to advance this goal. The Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC), an educational partnership between the University of Toronto (UofT) and Addis Ababa University (AAU) is one such partnership. The TAAAC model was designed to help address an urgent need for increased university faculty to teach in the massive expansion of universities in Ethiopia. As TAAAC has developed and expanded, faculty at both institutions have recognized the need to have clarity about the assumptions that underpin this shared work in order to address implicit issues of curriculum ownership, decision-making, control, expertise and funding.
Webinar: Global Health Competencies Toolkit: 2nd Edition: Launch & Updates
October 18, 2018
Global Health Competencies are central to Global Health education at undergraduate and graduate levels. The CUGH Competencies Toolkit is an essential resource for educators – including over 1000 multimedia teaching objects to use inside and outside the classroom, assisting faculty to nurture Global Health knowledge, skills and attitudes.
Join this webinar to learn more about how CUGH can assist faculty in all disciplines approaching Global Health to further the perspectives of learners and fellow faculty.
Webinar: Foundations for Global Health Practice: How to Make the Most of Your Global Health Course
October 12, 2018
Global health is influenced by so many aspects of life and is, by its scope, interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral in nature. How can faculty provide the needed disciplinary breadth in global health courses? How can they enable students to do place-based study-with or without travel-using digital and other sources? What kinds of community engagement and cultural humility/ethical skills are needed?
This webinar will begin with an overview of the challenges associated with global health education, and will provide guidance for instructors who want to develop effective interdisciplinary global health courses.
The webinar’s goal is to share best practices in global health education so that the next generation of global health leaders are prepared for effective and mutually beneficial collaboration with each other for the benefit of all.
Webinar: Teaching Global Health through an Inter-Professional Lens | Global Health & Business
November 16, 2017
TEACHING GLOBAL HEALTH THROUGH AN INTER-PROFESSIONAL LENS is a CUGH webinar series equipping educators with a basic understanding of the need-to-know aspects of different disciplines approaches and contributions to global health. Webinars will include key learning objects, vocabulary, and resources to bring multiple professional approaches to your global health course.
JOIN US FOR AN EXPLORATION of the concepts and approaches that stem from the field of business and commerce and are applicable to Global Health. Learn about approaches and contributions to Global Health from the field. This series helps equip faculty to teach Global Health drawing on material outside faculty’s primary discipline. Essential vocabulary and concepts will be covered, as well as case studies demonstrating the relevancy of the field of business on Global Health.
Webinar: Considerations & Guidance When Sending Students Abroad
November 15, 2017
With ever-increasing globalization and surging interest in global health there is growing interest on the part of medical students and medical schools to incorporate international electives into medical education.
Cross border medical exchanges enable students to work with different patient populations, develop cross-cultural understanding, and learn about health systems and approaches to medical care in other nations.
This webinar will examine student selection, preparation and ethical considerations when sending health professions students from the Global North to LMIC countries, common challenges and solutions cited by institutions in the Global North that host international visiting students from LMIC countries, and overall best practices and resources for study abroad.
Webinar: Teaching Global Health through an Inter-Professional Lens | Global Health & Geography
October 17, 2017
TEACHING GLOBAL HEALTH THROUGH AN INTER-PROFESSIONAL LENS is a CUGH webinar series equipping educators with a basic understanding of the need-to-know aspects of different disciplines approaches and contributions to global health. Webinars will include key learning objects, vocabulary, and resources to bring multiple professional approaches to your global health course.
JOIN THIS INSTALLMENT OF THE WEBINAR SERIES which focuses on “Global Health & Geography.” The field of geography extends far beyond maps and lattitude lines, to encompass a rich understanding of globalization, social determinants of health, geopolitical context, and much more! Educators and Global Health Scholars will walk away from this webinar with an enhanced understanding of Geography’s relevance to Global Health and with a wealth of teaching resources.
ABOUT THE SERIES — CUGH Faculty Development Webinar Series: Teaching Global Health through an Interprofessional Lens
Global Health is fundamentally an interprofessional pursuit, yet educators are often more familiar with their own discipline and can be challenged to teach global health through an interprofessional lens. This CUGH webinar series aims to equip educators with a basic understanding of the need-to-know aspects of different disciplines approaches and contributions to global health. Webinars will include key learning objects, vocabulary, and resources to bring multiple professional approaches to your global health course. This is especially useful for educators who do not have content area experts in other disciplines available to co-teach.
Webinar: Teaching Global Health through an Inter-Professional Lens | Global Health and Engineering
January 31, 2017
This webinar featured Shannon Marquez, PhD, MEng from Drexel University.
Engineering has wide application to Global Health from bioengineering to civic engineering to mechanical engineering and beyond. This webinar provided faculty and global health practitioners outside the field of engineering a foundational understanding of how engineering is related to global health. This included key vocabulary, case studies, resources and conferences. Attendees built an appreciation of how to work inter-professionally with engineering efforts.
This webinar was the third installment of a 6-part series, TEACHING GLOBAL HEALTH THROUGH AN INTERPROFESSIONAL LENS.
| ABOUT THE SERIES | Global Health is fundamentally an interprofessional pursuit, yet educators are often more familiar with their own discipline and can be challenged to teach global health through an interprofessional lens. This CUGH webinar series aims to equip educators with a basic understanding of the need-to-know aspects of different disciplines approaches and contributions to global health. Webinars will include key learning objects, vocabulary, and resources to bring multiple professional approaches to your global health course. This is especially useful for educators who do not have content area experts in other disciplines available to co-teach.
Webinar: Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) and Global Health
January 24, 2017
CUGH joined forces with North Carolina Central University, Public Health Institute’s Global Health Fellows Program and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to present a groundbreaking webinar on Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) and global health. This webinar provided the broader academic community, MSIs, global health centers, faculty, and practitioners with important insights into the opportunities that MSIs bring to global health and that global health brings to MSIs. This webinar explored the unique collaborations for universities and global health to increase diversity and inclusion, as well as nurture local global health and community building supported by the leadership of CUGH.
Webinar: Global Health and Anthropology
December 7, 2016
Historian and philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey remarked, “If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.” Anthropology, the study of culture and humankind, is a discipline that is central to understanding and participating in Global Health. This webinar will explore what anthropology is and how it applies to global health. Attendees will gain valuable insights into vocabulary, case studies and resources to allow the tenents of anthropology to be integrated into global health programs, curriculum and courses (regardless of the discipline of the instructor). Join us for this amazing professional development opportunity!
Webinar: Interprofessional Global Health Competencies: Exploring Consensus and Controversies Part II
November 2, 2016
We explored this topic together in a webinar in February 2016. You asked for its return and we brought it back.
What student development are we aiming for in global health education? How do we assess learner growth that requires demonstration, consistency, and varying contexts? What controversies exist in global health competencies that every educator should be aware of?
Competency-based education is flourishing in professional training regardless of discipline. Interprofessional Global Health Competencies were proposed in 2015 by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). This webinar explored the use of competencies in global health education, including diving into controversies and challenges, as well as outlining consensus and trends. Discussed controversies included cross cultural contexts, false sense of expertise, logistical challenges at institutional levels, and much more.
Webinar: Teaching Global Health through an Inter-Professional Lens| Global Health and Law
October 20, 2016
For many global health practitioners, the link between the law and global health is not clear. However, upon closer look, much of the framework for how global health is conceived and practiced is grounded in the laws, regulations and guidance that emanate from global organizations, such as the World Health Organization and the United Nations. Human rights laws that create the right to health, regulations that come into play during a pandemic, international guidance relating to breast milk substitutes, international pharmaceutical regulation, etc. – the areas in which the law and global health interact are legion.
This webinar was the first installment of a 6-part series, TEACHING GLOBAL HEALTH THROUGH AN INTERPROFESSIONAL LENS. It aimed to give participants a basic understanding of the foundation legal and regulatory frameworks in global health with concrete examples.
Webinar: Rules for the Road: Global Health, Safety and Security for Deploying Students, Staff, and Clinicians Overseas
January 27, 2016
Global health work and training in underserved areas presents unique opportunities to serve and to learn, but also increases exposure to safety risks. The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the Nepal earthquake, and the current refugee crisis in Europe and the Middle East highlights the need for a strong focus on the health, safety, and security of those working and training globally. The growth of academic global health programs has resulted in increased numbers of staff and students traveling to the field and global health sites, many of which are increasingly remote and in resource limited environments.
The threats faced are as diverse as the locations traveled to, ranging from infectious disease exposure in Uganda, to road traffic accidents in India, or terrorist threats in Kenya. Therefore, a key component of global health programming is the safety of the staff and participants. Global health programs have a duty to properly prepare and train staff, faculty and students prior to departure. Health care workers and their employers must understand their respective roles in the protection and support of their global health workforce, including their legal responsibilities, minimum operational standards, and support structures.
This webinar consisted of short presentations with case discussion from the headquarters and field perspective including important roles and responsibilities within organizations and what are the most pressing issues related to health, safety, and security of deploying faculty, students and staff.
Webinar: CUGH Global Health Education Webinar: Virtual Global Health Education: Approaches & Advances
September 14, 2023
Join experts from across the globe representing diverse applications of virtual global health education and information dissemination. In order to scale capacity and access to health education and global health exposure, virtual approaches are increasingly utilized. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in-person activities were halted, requiring innovation in virtual approaches. In the aftermath of travel restrictions, virtual approaches have become much more mainstreamed and acceptable. This webinar will discuss approaches for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), simulated public health peer exchanges, virtual health professions education, and Health Information for All (HIFA). Discuss the creative use of cell phone technology, email, information dissemination, virtual interfaces, classroom and applied learning.
Webinar: The Lancet & CUGH Global Health Webinar Series | Episode 1: Speak to the Editors: Getting Published and Other Insights into the World of Global Health
February 26, 2020
Do you want to learn about getting published? Do you have any questions about the world of global health, where the opportunities and challenges lie? Join us for this interactive, one hour conversation with editors and leaders in global health. Students in low and middle-income countries are particularly encouraged to join this webinar and ask any questions you may have of the speakers.
Webinar: The Lancet & CUGH Global Health Webinar Series | Episode 2: Increasing Equity in Global Health
March 11, 2020
Inequalities in global health abound. Gender, power, access to grants, scientific authorship, partnership benefits, training opportunities and more are frequently beset by structural inequalities. This webinar gives you an opportunity to offer advice and pose questions to the speakers on how to address this fundamental challenge in global health. Students and faculty in low and middle-income countries are particularly encouraged to register for this webinar and share your views on this issue.
Webinar: Interprofessional Global Health Competencies: Exploring Consensus and Controversies Part II
November 2, 2016
We explored this topic together in a webinar in February 2016. You asked for its return and we brought it back.
What student development are we aiming for in global health education? How do we assess learner growth that requires demonstration, consistency, and varying contexts? What controversies exist in global health competencies that every educator should be aware of?
Competency-based education is flourishing in professional training regardless of discipline. Interprofessional Global Health Competencies were proposed in 2015 by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). This webinar explored the use of competencies in global health education, including diving into controversies and challenges, as well as outlining consensus and trends. Discussed controversies included cross cultural contexts, false sense of expertise, logistical challenges at institutional levels, and much more.
Webinar: The Lancet & CUGH Global Health Webinar Series | Episode 3: Building Your Career in Global Health and International Development
March 27, 2020
Global health is an ever-changing field. Take this opportunity to ask leaders in this space questions about how to advance your career in global health and international development. These leaders have a broad range of experience in the field and have occupied very senior positions in academia. Students and junior faculty in low and middle-income countries are particularly encouraged to register for this webinar.
Webinar: Tips and Guidance for Academic Writing
April 26, 2018
The publishing environment today is unrecognisable from that of only a few decades ago. Getting your research published, and published where it matters to you, your peers, and your organisation, requires skills and knowledge that the academics of the last century could never have foreseen.
Lancet Global Health Editor-in-Chief Zoë Mullan will guide you through the fog with insider tips and strategies from one of the world’s leading health journals.
The following topics will be covered:
• What do editors of top journals look for in a paper?
• Developing research questions
• Basic paper structure
• Predatory journals
Webinar: Grant Writing for Success: Preparing a NIH Grant Application
October 12, 2017
Are you a new or junior investigator?
Do you assist in the preparation of the scientific portions of an application?
If you answered “yes” to either question, then don’t miss this webinar provided by NIH expert, Dr. Paula Strickland. She will provide helpful tips and guidance on preparing an application an NIH grant. Learn how to avoid the most common mistakes in writing grant applications and correct some typical misconceptions about the grant review process.
Following this webinar, participants will be able to:
– list significant steps involved from application to award;
– explain the fundamentals of writing a clear and concise research grant application;
– and describe the differences in writing a career development (K) award compared to other types of opportunities.
Webinar: Learn How to Combat Disinformation
May 11, 2021
Disinformation and the rise of anti-science beliefs has been named by the WHO as a top global health threat. It affects our ability to address everything from the Covid-19 pandemic, vaccine programs, climate change and more. Scientists and global health professionals have a vital role to combat disinformation. First Draft is a leading organization that uses proven techniques to empower individuals with the tools to address harmful and false information. Join Laura Garcia and Shaydanay Urbani from First Draft and learn the tools on how you can be more effective at addressing science disinformation. They will provide a run-through of the main narratives surrounding disinformation about vaccines and other issues, how to spot them, quick tricks to verify them and how to leverage your communication platforms to slow the spread of disinformation. There will be a Q and A for the registrants.
Webinar: The WHO – Reforms, COVID-19 and the US Departure
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Several big issues have rocked the World Health Organization. The COVID-19 pandemic is the greatest public health challenge in a century. It has also laid bare global weaknesses in dealing with an outbreak of a deadly infectious disease. In the midst of this US President Donald Trump decided to defund and remove the United States from the organization.
What does this mean for the WHO? How can we improve our response to COVID-19 and future pandemics? What reforms are required? What is happening in Congress regarding the WHO?
A crisis is an opportunity to build a better system. Four global health leaders will address these important issues affecting the world’s premier public health agency; what is taking place in Congress regarding the WHO; reforming the WHO and our collective ability to respond to COVID-19 and other public health challenges.
Webinar: The Impact of COVID-19 in Africa & Latin America: Challenges & Opportunities
Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Countries in Africa and Latin America are particularly vulnerable to a pandemic. The challenges they face and the opportunities that exist to strengthen health systems in these regions receive too little attention. The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a bright light on challenges low resource communities face, but this moment also presents an opportunity to address these gaps to not only prevent pandemics but address a broader range of public health challenges including noncommunicable diseases. This webinar brings together leaders from these regions who will discuss challenges these regions face and also what can be done to address them.
Webinar: Preventing Pandemics: Three Areas for Action
April 29, 2020
COVID-19 has highlighted the risks posed by the spillover of deadly infectious diseases from animals to humans. This crisis is also an opportunity for policymakers to invest in known interventions that can reduce the threat of future pandemics and provide additional benefits that can improve the health of people and that of the planet.
This webinar showcases experts from around the world who will share what we can do to achieve these goals by:
-Reducing disease spillover and pandemic prevention
-Strengthening the Global Health Security Agenda
-Reducing the trafficking and consumption of endangered species: a risk factor for spillover and a major cause of the current extinction crisis which is a neglected threat to human health
Webinar: Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences from Asia
April 16, 2020
The SARS-CoV-2 virus spilled over from an animal host to a person late last year in China creating a pandemic that is raging around the world. Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong responded decisively and effectively to curb the spread of the virus, saving thousands of lives. There are many lessons the international community can learn from them. This webinar features three leading global health experts from the region who will share what worked in their battle against the virus. They will also describe what we need to do to strengthen our collective ability to prevent, detect and respond to disease outbreaks.
Webinar: COVID-19 Pandemic: A View from New York State
April 2, 2020
Hear from public health experts on the situation in New York, an epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn about the reality on the ground, what they need, what others can learn from their plight, what LMICs are facing, and what we must do now to bend the curve of the pandemic.
Webinar: CUGH Webinar Update | The COVID-19 Pandemic
March 10, 2020
This webinar will share insights into the current status of the outbreak and what universities and health centers are doing to address this challenge. Panelists will also discuss how we can use this situation, which has shown significant gaps in national and international capabilities, to respond to a disease outbreak and to address those weaknesses in our ability to prevent, detect, and respond to potentially lethal Infectious disease outbreak.
Webinar: The One Health Opportunity: A Powerful Mechanism to Improve Global Health Outcomes
February 18, 2020
One Health integrates a broad range of biomedical and non-biomedical disciplines to improve the health of people, animals and our environment. It reflects the indivisibility between ourselves and the natural world. It is also an opportunity to improve health outcomes and address the social determinants of health. This webinar brings together three leaders in this field who will share important insights into the power of this platform and what we can all do to impact the challenges affecting us and our natural world.
Dr. Sharon Deem DVM, PhD, Director of the Institute of Conservation Medicine at the St. Louis Zoo, will outline some of the biggest threats in One Health, the impact of the massive biodiversity losses we are currently seeing on human health and the opportunity that mainstreaming conservation into development initiatives can have on a wide range of global challenges.
Catherine Machalaba MPH, Research Scientist at the EcoHealth Alliance, will discuss the importance of the global health security agenda, its impact on preventing detecting and responding to potential pandemics and a number of environmental threats that receive little attention in global health.
Dr. Cheryl Stroud DVM, PhD, Executive Director of the One Health Commission, will share how One Health is being embraced around the world and what we can each do to implement the One Health Opportunity to improve Global Health outcomes. She will share current advocacy efforts and what we must do at all levels of government and with the public to inform, inspire and mobilize people to take action.
Webinar: The Ebola Outbreak: Looking back, lessons learned. Looking forward, improving global health security
February 26, 2015
The Ebola Outbreak in West Africa sent shockwaves around the world. It laid bare our grossly inadequate response to a global health threat and the terrible state of affairs of health systems in the three most affected countries, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea.
Webinar: Education Continuity, School Operations and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Lessons from the United States and Canada
June 8, 2021
Education disruption has severe and inequitable consequences. What issues and strategies should be taken into consideration for education continuity and sustainable reopening of schools? How can elementary, secondary schools and universities in the U.S and Canada be safely reopened—and stay open—during the Covid-19 pandemic? In this seminar, we will hear from a range of experts across public health and education who have been at the forefront of policy guidance. This webinar will focus on more inclusive policy considerations that go beyond Covid-19 to address pandemic-related and pre-existing inequities in schooling for recovery.
Webinar: CUGH Trainee Advisory Committee and Campus Representatives Informational Webinar
August 6, 2020
In this webinar we will discuss two of the main ways students and trainees can get involved in global health through the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH): the CUGH Trainee Advisory Committee (CUGH TAC) and the Campus Representatives Program (CRP). The CUGH TAC is a student/trainee run committee within CUGH that consists of ~25 students, trainees, and young professionals from around the world. They contribute to addressing global health challenges through CUGH activities such as the CUGH conference and committees. These issues include COVID19, racial disparities and diversity, climate change, gun violence, student debt, and other global concerns.
The CRP is a network of students who serve as representatives of CUGH on their respective campuses. The benefits of the CRP are access to a network of international Campus Reps, volunteer opportunities with CUGH TAC, and curated resources for global health students and trainees. Campus Representatives, in return, serve as a liaison between CUGH and their institution, communicating their needs and disseminating CUGH information among their peers. If you are interested in joining either group and want to learn more, please join us at our webinar where we will discuss the structure of TAC and the CRP, the membership requirements, current work, etc. ALL ARE WELCOME! To sign up to be a Campus Rep, complete the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCDa-vHfNtnFshwn522K59PQRHXDTnry_v4RYVbfTm8v9ung/viewform
Webinar: WHO State of the World’s Nursing Report – Strengthening Nursing Education, Employment and Leadership
June 30, 2020
The WHO’s State of the World’s Report on Nursing and Midwifery was released this year, the Year of the Nurse. Nurses represent 59% of all healthcare professionals and are the backbone of health systems worldwide. How can this sector be strengthened and what of the future challenges it faces in helping to deliver effective health coverage especially during the COVID-19 pandemic? Dr. Patricia Davidson, Dean of the School of Nursing, Johns Hopkins University, and Dr. Nancy Reynolds, Associate Dean of Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins University and one of the authors of the report Dr. Sheila Tlou, Former Minister of Health, Botswana, will present on these important issues.
Webinar: CDC’s Integral Role in Ending the Global TB Epidemic
November 7, 2019
Tuberculosis (TB) is the world’s deadliest infectious disease, and its rate of decline in incidence is stalling. This must be met with a coordinated and focused global response. In this webinar, Dr. Hank Tomlinson, Director of the CDC; Division of Global HIV and TB, will discuss the global TB landscape; developments one year after the world came together at the UN General Assembly’s High Level Meeting on TB to set ambitious global targets to end the epidemic; and CDC’s role in supporting the global response to end TB through its four strategic priorities- Finding, Curing, and Preventing TB, while supporting country Sustainability. Dr. Tomlinson will end the presentation focused on “what’s next”, the game-changers needed to ultimately end TB.
Webinar: Working with CUGH on Public and Political Engagement in Global Health
September 24, 2019
This is an important time for US academics and other members of the global health community to engage US government officials and the public to show the value of investing in global health. CUGH received a grant from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to do this. In the upcoming year, we will be hosting two Global Health Capitol Hill Days, which will take place on November 19th, 2019 and April 16th, 2020. At that time, representatives from academia, NGOs, foundations and the private sector will have an opportunity to engage with federal representatives on theses issues. This initiative will also facilitate academics to connect to state representatives to achieve the project’s objectives.
We hope this effort will increase support in federal and state legislatures for US global health investments and create policies that are data-driven and sustainable.
CUGH’s Executive Director, Dr. Keith Martin, will be hosting two webinars for universities’ government relations representatives, members from academia, and the broader global health community (NGOs, foundations, the private sector) to discuss how we can collaborate to strengthen US leadership and support for investing in global health initiatives.
Webinar: CDC Update: Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo
July 22, 2019
Please join CUGH for a special webinar to discuss the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
This outbreak is the largest to occur in DRC and is now the second largest Ebola outbreak in the history of the disease. Only the 2014–2016 outbreak in West Africa was larger. The outbreak is occurring in a highly insecure environment, which complicates public health response activities and increases the risk of disease spread.
This webinar will outline Ebola Virus Disease, the current situation on the ground, and US government and international response efforts – including key public health approaches to disease control.
Webinar: The Global Fund, Governance and Public Health
June 27, 2019
In May, the Annals of Global Health published a Special Collection that explores the intersection between governance and public health.
Effective governance and public health are important pillars of a healthy society. When governance is fair, effective, and equitable, population health outcomes are higher, life spans are longer, infectious diseases can be controlled and the environment is healthier. When governance fails, public health outcomes decline. It is no accident that the last case of smallpox occurred in war-torn Somalia, or that measles rates are higher in Pakistan and polio in Syria.
Join us on June 27 when we discuss what happens, and what needs to happen, on the nexus of governance and public health.
Webinar: Become a CUGH Campus Representative
April 19, 2018
Are you a trainee looking to engage in important global health advocacy issues? Wondering how students can become involved in CUGH? Consider becoming a CUGH Campus Representative.
Join CUGH Executive Director, Keith Martin, along with Anthony Mai, CUGH Trainee Advisory Committee member, and Jessica Waters, Campus Representative at the University of Iowa, as they explain how students & trainees can engage with CUGH through becoming a Campus Representative. The speakers will discuss the responsibilities & benefits of Campus Representatives as well as the application process. A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
Webinar: Strategic Partnerships and Global Reproductive Health at the UN Population Fund
January 29, 2018
Reproductive health is a lifetime concern for both women and men, from infancy to old age. Evidence shows that reproductive health in any of these life stages has a profound effect on one’s health later in life. UNFPA supports programs tailored to the different challenges people face at different times in their lives, including comprehensive sexuality education, family planning, antenatal and safe delivery care, post-natal care, services to prevent sexually transmitted infections (including HIV), and services facilitating early diagnosis and treatment of reproductive health illnesses (including breast and cervical cancer).
UNFPA works with governments, the private sector, other UN agencies, and donors to develop comprehensive efforts to ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health care. UNFPA advocates for integrating the delivery of these services into primary health care, so it is as accessible as possible. This means, for instance, that a woman could address her family planning, antenatal care, HIV testing and general health needs all in one place.
Join Mariarosa Cutillo, Chief of Strategic Partnerships at UNFPA, as she walks us through the global partnerships that facilitate the achievement of UNFPA’s mandate towards universal access to reproductive health services. Ms. Cutillo’s presentation will be followed by an audience Q&A session moderated by CUGH Executive Director Dr. Keith Martin.
Webinar: CORE, GHC, CUGH Global Health Activities
September 12, 2017
Three Leading Global Health Organizations & Their Work to Address Global Health Challenges:
CUGH is delighted to host a webinar with the leaders of two of its members: The Global Health Council (GHC) and the Core Group. CUGH has been working hard to connect its primarily academic membership with other parts of the global health community. GHC and CORE Group (which is celebrating its 20th anniversary), like CUGH, are working to improve the well being of people around the world but particularly those in under-serviced communities.
This webinar, with GHC’s President Loyce Pace, Core Group’s executive Director Lisa Hilmi and CUGH’s Executive Director Dr. Keith Martin, will provide you with an opportunity to learn about these three important global health organizations, ask them questions about their institution’s activities, learn how you can get involved in their activities and provide them with suggestions as to how they can address the immense challenges before us.
Webinar: Global Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
August 8, 2017
Disease knows no borders. CDC’s global activities protect Americans from major health threats such as Ebola, Zika, and pandemic influenza and adverse economic impact. CDC detects and controls outbreaks at their source, saving lives and reducing healthcare costs. As importantly, CDC helps other countries build capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to health threats through its work. The knowledge and lessons learned from CDC’s work abroad are critical to our public health efforts at home, and to protecting Americans.
CDC works in more than 60 countries, working with ministries of health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and many other partners on the front lines where outbreaks may occur. It addresses global health crises that can extend beyond the health sector to contribute to creating more stable societies, including the growing burden of non-communicable diseases.
Join Dr. Hamid Jafari, CDC Center for Global Health Principal Deputy Director, as he walks us through the structure and activities of CDC’s global health center in the United States and abroad. Dr. Jafari’s presentation will be followed by a moderated audience Q&A session.
Webinar: Global Health and the Future Role of the United States
May 23, 2017
The Board on Global Health and members of Committee on Global Health and the Future of the United States will present the report, “Global Health and the Future Role of the United States.” The report examines the changing landscape of global health and opportunities for the U.S. government, as well as nongovernmental organizations and the private sector, to improve responsiveness, coordination, and efficiency in their work.
Following a brief introduction on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee process, this webinar will outline the main findings, conclusions, and recommendations in the report.
At the end of the presentation, webinar participants will have the opportunity to ask questions to three of our committee members present: Amie Batson, Lia Fernald, and Michael Merson.
Webinar: Online Member Meeting
September 28, 2016
We at CUGH are continually trying to identify ways in which we can impact global health challenges and provide value to our members. In order to achieve this we need your guidance and input. To this end we are starting a quarterly conference call with our member leads.
During this call there was an opportunity to give us feedback on how CUGH can serve your institution, provide ideas for programs and initiatives, and share innovations and challenges with your colleagues.
Webinar: Canadian Global Health Institutions
October 14, 2020
Canada has a number of very active institutions involved in global health. They reach around the world and forge effective partnerships to improve the lives of people living in low resource settings. Two of them are internationally recognized for their innovations in investing in the development and scaling up of groundbreaking solutions to address some of the world’s most pressing global health challenges. Thousands of projects are supported that build local capacity in a manner that enables people to live healthier lives in a sustainable environment.
Leaders from three top Canadian development centers will share information about their work and how organizations can engage in their activities or apply for funding.
Webinar: Consortium of Universities for Global Health: Priorities for 2016
February 4, 2016
As we begin the new year, CUGH invites you to join us to learn about our upcoming activities for 2016 and 2017. Dr. Timothy Brewer, Chair of our Board and Dr. Keith Martin, our Executive Director, hosted this webinar. They discussed CUGH’s priorities, took questions from viewers and provided an opportunity for participants to share with us how CUGH can better serve the needs of their organizations and address the global health challenges before us. This webinar was open to CUGH members and non-members.
Webinar: Improving Short-term Global Health Activities: Introducing Declaration and Advocacy for Global Health Partnerships
October 20, 2020
Critiques of short-term global health activities, a multi-billion-dollar phenomenon involving multiple stakeholders and intended to contribute to health in LMICs, have led many organizations to offer guidelines and resources for improvement. These efforts have been important, but they have occurred in narrow silos and with no enforcement mechanisms.
Currently, with a suspension of global travel due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have the opportunity – and the responsibility – to reimagine global health engagement, with emphasis on mutual benefits and bidirectional partnership. The goal of Advocacy for Global Health Partnerships (AGHP) has been to bridge multiple sectors (host countries, academia, faith-based organizations, professional associations, corporations, and NGOs) in promoting this conversation. A statement of principles, the Brocher Declaration, has gained important endorsements and is intended as a tool for guiding organizations as they rethink their programs with the aim of achieving greater impact.
This webinar addresses efforts to rethink short-term global health programs in light of the ethical, legal, and policy challenges identified.
Webinar: CUGH’s Virtual Summit: The Road to COP27: Climate and Health Through Three Lenses
October 15, 2021
Countless reports have warned us of the existential threat climate change poses to all of us. The latest August IPCC Report showed that the last time atmospheric CO2 levels were this high was millions of years ago. Worldwide we are seeing another year of lethal wildfires, water crises and extreme weather conditions.
The central challenge now is to mobilize political will across sectors and internationally to scale up known, effective solutions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate against the effects of climate change. This symposium, The Road to COP27: Climate Change and Health Through Three Lenses, will include presentations from experts from around the world who will share high impact solutions that will address climate change and improve health outcomes. Leaders from the African continent will share what should be in the COP27 meeting in Africa in 2022.
Attendees will be able to provide suggestions and ask questions. Solutions from this symposium will be shared publicly and with policymakers including at the COP26 meeting in Glasgow in an open access document.
Webinar: Planetary Health Education Framework
August 18, 2021
This webinar introduces the Planetary Health Education Framework (PHEF) to the CUGH community. The PHEF is a transdisciplinary effort that aims to guide the education of global citizens, practitioners, and professionals able and willing to address the complex Planetary Health challenges of our world today. The framework can be understood as a common foundational language that serves as the cornerstone for diverse education strategies. It intends to move beyond thematic areas of interest or a prescriptive list of competencies towards the recognition of the diverse inquiries (i.e, the why/affective, the what/representation, the how/strategic) that can shape Planetary Health Education.
Webinar: 2019 Lancet Countdown: Opportunities to Improve Health through Climate Action
January 31, 2020
The Lancet Countdown: Tracking Progress on Health and Climate Change is an international, multi-disciplinary collaboration that monitors the links between health and climate change through indicators highlighting the threats to health and the solutions. The 2019 Global Report and its companion Policy Brief for the United States were released on November 13, 2019. Dr. Salas and Dr. Patz will discuss how these recent findings present a profound opportunity to improve health and the steps needed to achieve a healthier future for everyone.
Webinar: Climate Information: A New Resource for the Health Community
Friday, January 18, 2019
This webinar will discuss the potential value of climate information in routine epidemiological surveillance systems, early warning and risk assessment for climate-sensitive health outcomes as well as in the prevention of all types of hydro-meteorological disasters, infectious disease emergencies and nutrition crises.
To achieve evidence-based policies and practices for climate change adaptation for the health sector we need to know what we are adapting to. In this webinar, we will consider how climate information can help. The discussion will focus on the importance of a multi-timescale approach, new and innovative mechanisms for strengthening climate observations, data management and sharing, development of relevant climate services, inter-sectoral collaboration, training and capacity building – all of which must be built within an enabling policy environment.
The discussants’ premise is that improved management of health risks associated with climate variability (such as the heat early warning systems recently established in Europe and North America) increases the adaptive capacity of the public health sector to longer-term climate change. Understanding the policy drivers that influence programmatic development, funding streams and new opportunities for inter-sectoral engagement can help ensure delivery of climate services that meet decision-maker needs. In this webinar, chaired by Joy Shumake-Guillemot (World Health Organisation, World Meteorological Organisation Joint Office), Madeleine Thomson and Simon Mason (International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University) will discuss the opportunities and challenges that are associated with climate services for the health sector and provide examples of their use in practice in the field.
Webinar: The Impact of Proposed Cuts to US-Funded Climate Change Activities
July 13, 2017
This webinar, by two internationally recognized climate change experts: Prof. Madeleine Thomson, Senior Research Scientist, Intl. Research Institute, Columbia Univ. and Dr. Jon Patz, Director of the Global Heath Institute, Univ. Wisconsin, outlined the proposed cuts to US agencies involved in climate change that are in front of Congress and the impact they will have on the US and internationally. Ways individuals and communities can address climate change and what can be done to stop these cuts were also discussed.
Webinar: Human Health and Ocean Pollution- Addressing the Urgent Crisis to Save the Planet’s Oceans and Save Ourselves
December 9, 2020
Oceans are part of the foundation of all life on the planet. This vast, complex ecosystem that covers 70% of Earth’s surface provides food, regulates climate change, affects weather patterns and more.
Despite its importance, we are using it as a dumping ground. The implications of this pose a significant threat to our lives and the web of life on the planet.
Three leading experts, authors of the report on Human Health and Ocean Pollution just released in Monaco under the auspices of Prince Albert of Monaco, will share the threats to our oceans and what we can do to stop our destruction of this vital generator of life on the planet.
Webinar: A Tale of Two Collegiate Issues: Student Debt and Underrepresented Minorities in Higher Education in the US
October 7, 2020
In this webinar, we will discuss two pervasive issues in the US higher education system: the accumulation of student debt and the under-representation of minorities. Both of these issues contribute to the ever-growing disparities seen in global health and the professional workforce in general. This webinar features the work of students from the CUGH Trainee Advisory Committee who partnered with students from universities across the US and internationally to discuss and present solutions to institutions, policymakers, educational advocacy groups, and the general public regarding these two critical issues.
The TAC recently released two white papers on these topics:
Webinar: Reducing Race Based Disparities in the United States
July 30, 2020
The Black Lives Matter protests and the Covid-19 pandemic have shone a bright light on deep, longstanding disparities affecting Black Americans and other people of color in the United States.
These structural, race-based obstacles run across education, healthcare, housing, infrastructure, the justice system and other aspects of American society. Evidence-based solutions exist that can effectively remove these obstacles and improve outcomes for these disadvantaged groups.
This webinar will address what policymakers and communities need to do to tackle these long-standing challenges to improve socio-economic outcomes for Black Americans and other disadvantaged communities in the US.
Webinar: Addressing Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in the US
May 14, 2020
COVID-19 has shone a bright light on deep disparities in the United States. African-Americans, First Nations and other minority groups have sustained far higher rates of mortality and morbidity due to this pandemic. This reflects a chronic lack of access to opportunities, programs and services that create structural barriers to good health and social-economic advancement. This webinar will highlight these deep challenges and present policy solutions on how to address them.
Webinar: Diagnostics are Essential for Healthcare: Challenges in LMICs and How to Overcome Them
September 12, 2018
Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) face a range of obstacles in healthcare including access, funding, education, and personnel. However, laboratory diagnostics including pathology are particularly challenging because of the specialized personnel, unique reagents, quality processes, and overall logistics of delivering the right diagnosis to the right patient at the right time. In this webinar, on September 12 at 1-2 PM ET, leaders from academia, the ASCP, and the CDC will discuss the challenges of laboratory diagnostics and present examples of solutions from cancer and infectious diseases. Common pitfalls and practical, sustainable solutions will be discussed.
Webinar: Health in Areas Affected by Violent Conflict: Time for Academic Global Health Programs to Respond
February 11, 2021
Armed conflicts have a profound impact on civilian populations who bear the brunt of the devastation they cause. In these environments, many lifesaving women and child health (WCH) services are not reported to be delivered. International donors are the primary actors and drivers of these services determining what, where, when and how they are distributed. Join us for this webinar with some of the Commissioners of the Lancet Commission on Women and Children’s Health in Conflict Settings. Ten areas impacted by war were examined. The impact of conflict on WCH and novel, concrete solutions that can be deployed to provide these services closer to populations in these unstable, dangerous environments will be shared with the audience. A Questions and Answers session will follow the presentations.
Webinar: The Global Surgery Deficit
July 20, 2015
Approximately 5 billion out of 7 billion people in the world have no or little access to basic surgical care. Out of the roughly 250 million operations performed each year, only 3.5% are performed on the poorest 1/3 of the world’s population. Injuries alone cause 5.7 million deaths yearly, much more than the 3.8 million deaths caused by malaria, HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis combined.
Many of these fatal injuries could have been treated by basic surgery, if it were available. Although international priorities are starting to reflect the importance of non-communicable diseases and injury, investment in essential surgical services lags far behind other healthcare priorities.
This webinar described the magnitude of the global surgical deficit and what needs to be done to address it, and shared opportunities for participants to help tackle this challenge.
Webinar: Oral Health: Solutions to Address this Neglected Global Health Challenge
October 28
Oral health diseases affect over 3.5 Billion people globally. From dental caries to oral cancer, many of these diseases are preventable or treatable if found early in their progress. Despite this, coverage for oral health is usually not part of UHC and known public health measures are not implemented that can dramatically, and, cost-effectively address these health threats.
This panel of global leaders in oral health will share what can be done to reduce the enormous burden oral diseases are having on people around the world.
Webinar: Preventing Blindness: A Global Health Challenge Vital to Achieving the SDGs
March 23, 2021
Globally, more than 1 Billion people have vision impairment that was preventable or has yet to be treated. This results in $Billions in lost productivity annually. However, it is a neglected global health challenge that can be addressed with the knowledge we have.
After the first ever WHO World Report on Vision (WRV) was launched amidst the Vision2020 celebrations, the UN adopted its first resolution on eye health. Of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), vision health impacts 6 of them directly. The resolution commits UN member states to making eye care an integral part of Universal Health Coverage and integrating “people-centred eye care”. This webinar will examine the strategy set out by the WRV on how to achieve these goals. Examples of global eye health systems transformation will be highlighted to show the need for contributions from all sectors and professions.
Webinar: Global Efforts to Reduce the Burden of Cervical Cancer: Session 3 – Ensuring effective implementation of cervical cancer prevention and control strategies
August 12, 2020
Session three will explore the role of implementation research to ensure effective implementation of cervical cancer prevention and control strategies.
About the series:
In 2018, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 570,000 women worldwide were diagnosed with cervical cancer. A shocking 311,000 women died of the disease. More than 80% of them were from low- and middle-income countries. While high-level institutions including the WHO are calling for action, it is crucial to understand the research, scientific advances, policy implementation considerations, and strategic coordination that are needed to reduce cervical cancer at the local and global level. A whole of society approach is required to reduce this disease, a preventable and treatable malignancy. This three-part webinar series brings together experts from the fields of research, clinical care, and policy, to debate and discuss what it will take to effectively reduce the global cervical cancer burden.
Webinar: Global Efforts to Reduce the Burden of Cervical Cancer: Session 2 – Latest scientific advances, tools, and approaches to address cervical cancer control at the country-level
August 5, 2020
Session two will describe the latest scientific advances, approaches, and specific tools and actions available for utilization at the country/local level.
About the series:
In 2018, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 570,000 women worldwide were diagnosed with cervical cancer. A shocking 311,000 women died of the disease. More than 80% of them were from low- and middle-income countries. While high-level institutions including the WHO are calling for action, it is crucial to understand the research, scientific advances, policy implementation considerations, and strategic coordination that are needed to reduce cervical cancer at the local and global level. A whole of society approach is required to reduce this disease, a preventable and treatable malignancy. This three-part webinar series brings together experts from the fields of research, clinical care, and policy, to debate and discuss what it will take to effectively reduce the global cervical cancer burden.
Webinar: Global Efforts to Reduce the Burden of Cervical Cancer: Session 1 – Overview of the global initiatives in cervical cancer control
July 29, 2020
Session one will provide an overview of the global initiatives in cervical cancer control, and opportunities to integrate these efforts in global maternal and child health (MCH), HIV, and other global health priorities.
About the series:
In 2018, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), approximately 570,000 women worldwide were diagnosed with cervical cancer. A shocking 311,000 women died of the disease. More than 80% of them were from low- and middle-income countries. While high-level institutions including the WHO are calling for action, it is crucial to understand the research, scientific advances, policy implementation considerations, and strategic coordination that are needed to reduce cervical cancer at the local and global level. A whole of society approach is required to reduce this disease, a preventable and treatable malignancy. This three-part webinar series brings together experts from the fields of research, clinical care, and policy, to debate and discuss what it will take to effectively reduce the global cervical cancer burden.
Webinar: Improving Breast Healthcare Through Resource-Stratified Phased Implementation
June 26, 2020
The Breast Health Global Initiative is marking the launch of a Cancer supplement featuring 14 original manuscripts resulting from the “The BHGI Global Summit on International Breast Health and Cancer Control: Improving Breast Health Care through Resource Stratified Phased Implementation.” This supplement represents the culmination of over two years of collaborative work by more than 50 authors from around the world including healthcare providers, health economists, epidemiologists, public health professionals, implementation scientists, advocates and policymakers. The articles address phased implementation of resource stratified guidelines for breast cancer, health systems integration, training, advocacy, pathology and more.
Webinar: 8th Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research Selected Oral Abstract Presentations
July 10, 2020
Following the cancellation of the 8th Annual Symposium on Global Cancer Research due to the coronavirus pandemic, National Cancer Institute’s Center for Global Health has partnered with the Consortium of Universities for Global Health to host a one-hour webinar for selected oral abstract presentations, in order to share these timely and relevant research findings with the global health community. Abstracts were selected in a peer-review process based on overall score and relevance to priority topic areas; and reflect creativity and diversity of global cancer research and control programs. Presenters from Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Cancer Hospital of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, National Cancer Institute, University of Ibadan, and Yale University will present research on topics across the cancer control continuum.
Webinar: Transforming the WHO by Strengthening its Science, Data, Funding and Governance
July 29, 2021
The WHO is the central, global, public health organization responsible for tackling the health challenges that know no borders. This webinar features 3 leaders within the organization who will share what the organization is doing and what is needed to strengthen its science, data, funding and governance.
Webinar: CORE, GHC, CUGH Global Health Activities
September 12, 2017
Three Leading Global Health Organizations & Their Work to Address Global Health Challenges:
CUGH is delighted to host a webinar with the leaders of two of its members: The Global Health Council (GHC) and the Core Group. CUGH has been working hard to connect its primarily academic membership with other parts of the global health community. GHC and CORE Group (which is celebrating its 20th anniversary), like CUGH, are working to improve the well being of people around the world but particularly those in under-serviced communities.
This webinar, with GHC’s President Loyce Pace, Core Group’s executive Director Lisa Hilmi and CUGH’s Executive Director Dr. Keith Martin, will provide you with an opportunity to learn about these three important global health organizations, ask them questions about their institution’s activities, learn how you can get involved in their activities and provide them with suggestions as to how they can address the immense challenges before us.
Webinar: Give Us Your Input Into What the Biden Administration’s Global Health Priorities Should Be!
December 18, 2020
A new administration under President-elect Joe Biden will take office on January 20th, 2021. This will mark a significant departure from the last 4 years in global health policy direction for the United States. This moment is also an opportunity to provide the new administration with ideas as to what these policies should be. We will be sharing these ideas with them.
To that end we are seeking guidance from our members and the broader global health community in identifying these global health policy priorities. This is an extraordinary moment to build forward better. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has shown us that global health is critically important to doing this.
The webinar will include a short summary outlining some of the potential opportunities for policy changes but the majority of the time will be devoted to hearing from you regarding what the new Biden administration’s global health priorities should be.
Webinar: Engaging With Congress
September 22, 2020
Learn from 25-year Capitol Hill veteran, Stephanie Vance, on how to effectively engage with your elected officials. This session will provide updates on current policy issues, advice on researching your legislators, and best practices/techniques for developing a winning message. Stephanie will share strategies for successfully delivering your messages. Your voice is more important than ever in addressing the challenges we are facing. This training will strengthen your effectiveness on Capitol Hill.
Webinar: Communicating with the Public, Media and Stakeholders
September 15, 2020
Join us for a training designed to strengthen the global health community’s understanding of how to effectively communicate complex ideas to the general public. In this training, we will examine the core elements of what outside audiences need to understand as well as how to craft appealing messages. We will discuss specific venues for communicating your messages, such as letters to the editor, social media, traditional media, with legislators and more. You will come away from this training with enhanced skills for reaching out to influencers in your community—and beyond!
Webinar: Gun Violence in the Americas | Focus: Mexico
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020
With the world’s highest rate of lethal gun violence, the Americas are in the midst of an unmitigated public health crisis. Just six countries account for over half of 250,000 annual global gun deaths: the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Guatemala. But activists, medical professionals, human rights workers, and policy experts are working together to stop this bloodshed and the vectors that make it happen. This webinar brings together leading researchers and advocates on this issue. John Lindsay-Poland and Natalia Báez are co-authors of Gross Human Rights Abuses: The Legal and Illegal Gun Trade to Mexico, and are both active in a working group in dialogue with the Mexican government about gun violence and trafficking. Dr. Hargarten serves as the Director of the Comprehensive Injury Center and is the Associate Dean for Global Health at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Webinar objectives:
1. Frame gun violence as a major public health crisis.
2. Describe the flow of guns (the vector of this public health burden) coming into Mexico
3. Learn more from the lived experience of gun violence in Mexico
4. Outline selected strategies to address the flow of guns into Mexico
Webinar: Gun Violence in the Americas: Local Solutions to a Hemispheric Challenge
July 16, 2020
For over a decade now, the Americas have had the highest rates of gun violence in the world. This burden is largely concentrated in the region’s cities. In 2019, 47 of the world’s 50 most violent cities were in the Americas. The relatively free flow and easy access to firearms in the hemisphere – both legal and illegal – is a clear common denominator. Ultimately, regulating and reducing the arms trade holds promise to save countless lives. Yet, with someone in the hemisphere dying violently every three minutes, the work of saving lives cannot only wait for laws and policies to change; it involves action at multiple levels.
In this webinar, experts will discuss how cities and affected communities are leading the way as innovators and practitioners in preventing gun violence.
Webinar: Improving access to palliative care: Interdisciplinary approaches to ease serious health-related suffering
February 5, 2020
Serious health-related suffering (SHS) afflicts over 61 million people worldwide, with over 80% of symptom burden occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Palliative care – an interdisciplinary intervention aiming to relieve physical, psychological, social, and spiritual suffering for patients and caregivers arising from serious illness – can reduce SHS globally. While access to palliative care has been deemed an essential human right by the World Health Organization and other international entities, there are major gaps in palliative care access and delivery that disproportionately afflict those in LMICs. These gaps are exacerbated by a lack of trained workforce, lack of access to pain medications, and inadequate integration into health systems and healthcare delivery.
In this webinar, we will first define palliative care and its role in promoting the health and well-being of individuals and populations worldwide. Second, we will discuss major gaps and opportunities to improve palliative care access and delivery, particularly in LMICs. Third, drawing on the unique experiences of our expert speakers in Rwanda, Liberia, and Botswana, we will compare examples of interventions aiming to train palliative care workforce and build capacity at the national and regional level. Specifically, we will discuss educational initiatives, guidelines, and national policies implemented in partnership with local ministries of health and regional/international advocacy groups, with specific emphasis on interdisciplinary efforts to bolster nursing workforce and improve access to essential pain medicines. We will end with a question and answer session.
Webinar: Vaccines & Vaccine Hesitancy
July 16, 2019
Vaccines have been a vital asset in reducing childhood mortality and morbidity. They have saved millions of children’s lives around the world and are one of the most cost effective public health measures.
Despite overwhelming evidence to the life-saving properties of vaccines there has been an increase in vaccine hesitancy in many parts of the world. This has resulted in a deadly resurgence of preventable infectious diseases that is claiming an increasing number of children’s lives.
Join us on Tuesday, July 16 at 3pm ET for a webinar by two global leaders in the field of vaccines and vaccine hesitancy to learn about this challenge and what we can do to enable children to access the vaccines they need to protect them from an array of preventable and potentially lethal diseases.
Webinar: Implementation Science in Nutrition
June 19, 2019
Malnutrition in its many forms is a major contributor to the global burden of disease and disability and has gained prominence on global and national policy agendas. This is illustrated by several resolutions, goals and targets from the World Health Assembly, the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement being implemented in over 60 countries, the existence of nutrition targets within the Sustainable Development Goals and increased investments by donors and foundations.
Despite this momentum, only about one-third of countries are on track for achieving the global stunting target, roughly one-half are on track for the wasting and exclusive breastfeeding targets and virtually none are on track for anemia in reproductive-aged women and for overweight and obesity in adults. Implementation challenges, of many types, represent the major reason for this gap between goals and achievements. The Society for Implementation Science in Nutrition (SISN) was formed in 2016 to advance the theory and practice of implementation science and help narrow these gaps.
This webinar presents the frameworks and principles of implementation science as developed by SISN and illustrates their application by teams of government actors, researchers and implementers in two countries. The case studies focus on efforts to improve the delivery and utilization of iron and folic acid supplementation for pregnant women through working with the government system and USAID-funded programs in Kenya and Uganda, as part of the Implementation Science Initiative led by SISN and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie), with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Webinar: Centralized Application System (CAS) for Global Health
September 20, 2016
CUGH is collaborating with Liaison International (LI), an internationally recognized leader in the development and management of Centralized Application Systems (CAS) to explore the possibility of CUGH implementing such a system for global health programs within North America based academic centers.
Many of you may be familiar with Liaison and their application services since they provide application services to over 5,000 programs across 800 campuses and likely touch many programs on your campus. Some of the disciplines they service are Public Health, Health Administration, Pharmaceutical, and Dental, to name a few.
Liaison’s CAS will offer benefits to applicants, participating schools and the profession as a whole. Applicants can apply to multiple Global Health programs through a user-friendly application portal. Schools can promote their programs to a wider national applicant pool and transfer manual verification tasks to Liaison’s capable and efficient team. The profession as a whole will benefit from gaining insight into best practices through analysis of application and enrollment data.
Liaison provided details of the CAS, discussed the benefits to all constituents, showed a brief demonstration and left ample time for questions and answers in this webinar.
Webinar: Sepsis: A Neglected Global Killer
June 4, 2015
Nearly 30 million people a year are afflicted with sepsis leaving millions dead or disabled. Every nation on earth is affected and its incidence is increasing between 8%-13%/yr. Despite its prevalence and disastrous impact on life, communities and economies, it receives little attention. We aim to change that.
International sepsis experts agree that a poor understanding and awareness of sepsis, as the syndrome which is the final common pathway leading to death and disability from all acute severe infections, is preventable. Globally efforts are underway to change this – to prevent this syndrome and treat it properly when it arises.
This webinar discussed the scope of the problem, what can be done to prevent and treat the syndrome, and outlined the international advocacy efforts underway by the Global Sepsis Alliance and others.
This session described this global health challenge and shared with the audience what everyone can do to help in the efforts to reduce the incidence and impact of sepsis.
For more information, go to http://www.world-sepsis-day.org
Note: Dr. Kissoon’s slides are not fully shown in the video due to technical difficulties during the live webinar.
Webinar: Reforming the WHO – How We Can Strengthen the World’s Leading Public Health Agency
May 26, 2021
The WHO is the leading global public health agency. Its role is essential for our collective and individual health. In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have an opportunity to strengthen it, to make it a more effective, transparent and better funded organization. Learn about the reforms that countries can support to achieve these goals from these former leaders within the organization.
Webinar: Decolonizing Global Health – Conceptual Ramifications for Students and Faculty
August 16
Our health education system needs to change. We need to base it on human dignity. Join us to talk and discover how we can train decolonizers with meaningful engagement.
Webinar: Shifting the Narrative: The Role of Social Media in Public Health Communications Webinar
Hosted by University of California Berkley’s Center for Public Health Practice and the APHA Health Communication Working Group, this webinar examines the ever-increasing role of social media within the public health sector.
Webinar: Talking Science to Non-Scientists
This webinar is a discussion between David Goldston from MIT and Jennifer Poulakidas from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities on how to successfully convey one’s scientific work to the public, including government officials and staffers. These experts provide best practices on how to begin working on local policy, effectively shift perspectives, and cultivate engaging conversations.
Webinar: Value Based Messaging: Using Words that Work
This online webinar hosted by the Berkeley Media Studies Group outlines how to effectively develop one’s message while also incorporating the values that are embedded within one’ work.
Webinar: Beyond Good Intentions: Storytelling and Responsible Communication in Global Health
Moderated by Unite for Site, this webinar discusses the vital role of storytelling within global health among seven experts. Panelists are associated with the Blue Butterfly Collaborative, PTI Advisors, Global Health Strategies, Chocolate Moose Media and Culture Shift, RESULTS, University of Houston Downtown, and Create 2030. Each panelist provided key best practices for incorporating storytelling and then answered various questions pertaining to effective storytelling methods.
Webinar: Toward Competency-Based Best Practices in Teaching and Learning: The Global Health Starter Kit
November 20, 2019
The Global Health Starter Kit is a free, openly available, competency-based ‘starter’ curriculum for educators and trainees who are working toward unified standards for global oral health education to address the burden of oral diseases worldwide and their consequences. This webinar explores the journey of the Global Health Starter Kit’s development and implementation processes through educator and trainee eyes. It chronicles the development of global health competencies for dental education by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health’s Global Oral Health Interest Group; the didactic foundation taught in the Harvard classroom; the resulting open access global oral health curriculum (the Starter Kit); and early user reflections and outcomes from their experiences utilizing the Kit materials.
Participants will be led through a hands-on tour of the Global Health Starter Kit website. They will learn directly from ‘early adopters’ (a faculty member, a dental student, and a field-based educational director) who are using the Kit and how they are adapting and incorporating the Kit’s materials into their own teaching and learning experiences. The webinar will conclude with a Q&A with participants and provide an opportunity for others for provide feedback and ask questions about how they can optimize the materials for their own purposes moving forward. Next steps and future directions of the Global Health Starter Kit will also be deliberated during the Q&A, and participant questions and feedback will be valuable in shaping the future of the project.
Webinar: Health and Medical Education Challenges in the Middle East: Syria as a Case Study
July 9, 2020
Syria has been devastated by conflict. The Academy of Health Sciences in Syria will provide an overview of how Medical Higher Education in the Middle East is affected by war and the effects of the Arab Spring.
Webinar: Building Effective Partnerships for Development Between Low-Income Countries: a powerful opportunity for impact
June 26, 2023
Global health partnerships are often thought of as being between institutions in high-income nations and institutions in low-or low-middle-income countries (LLMICs). Yet, a top priority for institutions in LLMICs is to build collaborations with institutions in other LLMICs. Such partnerships are powerful due to similarities shared by organizations across language, infrastructure, resources, culture, and needs. Building these collaborations is a neglected opportunity that can create durable outcomes that meet the needs of LLMICS. This panel of global experts shared with the audience why these partnerships can be highly effective, the gaps that exist in creating them, their benefits, how they can be created and innovations in strengthening and retaining training capacity in LLMICS. This was followed by a Q and A with the online audience.
Webinar: CUGH Global Health Education: Virtual Global Health Education: Approaches & Advances
September 14, 2023
Join experts from across the globe representing diverse applications of virtual global health education and information dissemination. In order to scale capacity and access to health education and global health exposure, virtual approaches are increasingly utilized. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many in-person activities were halted, requiring innovation in virtual approaches. In the aftermath of travel restrictions, virtual approaches have become much more mainstreamed and acceptable. This webinar will discuss approaches for Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL), simulated public health peer exchanges, virtual health professions education, and Health Information for All (HIFA). Discuss the creative use of cell phone technology, email, information dissemination, virtual interfaces, classroom and applied learning.
Event: CUGH2024 Virtual Global Health Week Satellite Sessions
November 30, 2023
- Addressing Plastic Pollution Across the LifeCycle (Dr. Landrigan/ Boston College)
- Mental Health – A Universal Human Right (Fatima Jinnah Women University)
- Mastering the Art of Climate Storytelling for Impact (Create2030)
- Mercury Contamination and Co-exposures in the Amazon Basin: At the Center of the Planetary Environmental Crisis (Florida International University)
- Prioritizing Mental Health and Behavioral Studies in HIV/AIDS Response among LGBTQ Populations (University of South Carolina)
- A One Health Symposium and Case Competition: Together, Student Leaders Face the Climate Crisis (University of California, Davis)
- Free IPUMS Survey and Census Data for International Health Research (IPUMS, ISRDI, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
- Implementing Essential Care Package on Mental Health and anti stigma campaign for people affected by Neglected Tropical Diseases (Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria)
- The Political Argument for Equitable Surgical Care: A Conversation with Champions and Experts (Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School.)
- Global health without borders: Rethinking global health operations for accessible and equitable strategies (CUGH Global Health Operations Committee | Dpt. of Heath Policy and Organization & Sparkman Center for Global Health, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham)
- SDG 360 Thinking for Health: An Action Research Workshop (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Strengthening training capacity globally by connecting trainers with training needs: The CUGH Capacity Strengthening Platform (CUGH Workforce Capacity Building Committee / University of Illinois Chicago)
- Global Health in Low- and middle-income countries (Trainee Advisory Committee)
- Challenges and Solutions to the Climate Crisis in Africa (AFREhealth)
- Lingering COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in 2023: Impacts on ongoing pandemic responses and routine immunization (City University of New York Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy)
- CUGH Global Health Educators Community (GHECo) (Allegheny College and University of Richmond)
- Advancing the field of Impact Science in Africa (African Forum for Research and Education in Health/Makerere University College of Health Sciences)
- Digital Exposure Notification Systems and Future of Pandemic Response (University of California, San Francisco)
Event: CUGH’s 15th Annual Conference – Global Health Without Borders: Acting for Impact
From March 8th – March 10th, 2024, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) held its annual in-person global health conference. The host institutions were the National Cancer Institute, the University of California San Francisco Institute for Global Health Sciences, the University of Washington Department of Global Health, and the University of Southern California Institute on Inequalities in Global Health. Its theme was ‘Global Health Without Borders: Acting for Impact.’ The conference agenda was filled with over 200 speakers and more than 50 panels across various topics, disciplines, and countries that will address many of the contemporary health challenges that we face today. We had over 20 Satellite Sessions at CUGH 2024 that spanned a wide range of topics. The conference convened individuals across sectors, organizations, and disciplines to share knowledge, build skills, or develop action plans to address specific global health challenges we face today.
Webinar: Global Health Security: The Intersection of Policy and Academia
September 23, 2024
On September 17th, the Department of State’s Bureau of Global Health Security and Diplomacy, in partnership with CUGH, hosted a virtual symposium to foster collaboration between U.S. public health schools and the State Department. The event focused on enhancing global health security and the goal of ending HIV/AIDS as a public health threat by 2030. Thank you to our panel members and attendees for contributing to this vital conversation. Watch the video below to join us in this mission!
Event: CUGH 2024 Virtual Global Health Week
October 4, 2024
Thank you to everyone who took the time to attend CUGH 2024 Virtual Global Health Week. A big thank you to all of our wonderful panelists who provided insightful discussions on a range of pressing issues in global health. Below you will find all of the recordings of the webinars.
Youtube Links:
VW1: An Inclusive, Integrated Strategy for Capitalizing NCDs: The Women’s Cancer Case Study
VW2: Essential WHO learning for health emergencies: Lessons for future pandemics & emergency events
VW3: How can we think more clearly about the “public health system” in the era of UHC?
VW4: Global strategy & action plan for integrated emergency, critical and operative care WHO Consul
VW 5: CUGH Young Professionals Network: what it is & how it serves early career GHP’s
VW6: Climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss Innovations to address this triple threat to…
VW7: Politics and Diplomacy for Health
VW8: Preparedness, Response & Resilience: Strengthening GH Operations During the times of Crisis
VW9: Teaching the Global Burden of Disease
Webinar: Fundamentals of Effective Mentoring – APPI
April 24, 2025
Join CUGH and the Academic Partnership Program Initiative Committee (APPI) for the Fundamentals of Effective Mentoring webinar. Attendees will learn best practices for effective mentoring in the context of academic and research centers and understand how they can become involved in the CUGH Mentorship Program. The webinar presenters will discuss desirable attributes of mentors and mentees, frameworks of successful mentoring relationships, and potential challenges and resolutions in mentoring relationships.
Webinar: Addressing the Triple Environmental Health Crisis: A Way Forward
October 14th, 2025
Watch this dynamic planetary healthy symposium hosted by CUGH and partners, focused on tackling the triple environmental crisis—climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution—through innovative economic strategies and nature-based solutions.
Organizers:
Woutrina Smith – Associate Dean, Global Programs UC Davis
Carlos Faerron – Associate Director, Planetary Health Alliance, Johns Hopkins University
Catherine Machalaba – Planetary Health Scientist, The Nature Conservancy
Keith Martin – Executive Director, CUGH
Featured Speakers:
Pushpam Kumar – Chief Environmental Economist, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Carrie Monahan – Director of Natural Resources, Mooretown Rancheria of Maidu Indians
Chris Overcash – Program Manager, Department of Environmental Health, Johns Hopkins University
Jonathan Patz – Director, Global Health Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Mark Nieuwenhuijsen – Director of Urban Planning, Environmental Health Institute, ISGlobal
Webinar: How to Provide Urgent Medical Care to Gaza
February 19, 2026
Of the 36 hospitals in the Gaza Strip, many have been destroyed. Only half are partially functional. Around 18,500 people—including more than 4,000 children—are awaiting urgent, life-saving treatment, while thousands have died on waitlists to receive care. Transfers of the sick and injured to other parts of Palestine or to other countries remain blocked. Every day of delay means more lives that could have been saved are lost. In this webinar, six international experts, including two who are currently on the ground in Gaza, share what is needed to enable these people to access the care they need and how you can help.
Human Health and the Environmental Impacts of LPG
This documentary summarizes findings from a study on the multi-sectoral benefits and costs of LPG distributed for cooking in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh. This study evaluated households newly enrolled in the LPG distribution program and compared them to households that were already receiving LPG to measure the impact of the LPG distribution program. Provision of LPG was associated with reduced deaths and disease due to indoor air pollution, increased carbon storage, improved food security and mental health, and reduced inter-group and domestic conflict. Long-term provision of LPG to 1 million refugees is a feasible and cost-effective strategy to support food security, nutrition, health, and safety while protecting the environment and reducing tension with host communities. The findings support policy and donor decisions on the provision of clean cooking fuel in humanitarian settings. Policy brief: https://wordpress.com/post/globalenvhealthequitylab.wordpress.com/199
WHO Guideline: Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into primary health care
A universally accessible essential package (EP) of palliative care and pain control can prevent and relieve suffering for chronically or terminally ill patients. It proves indispensable for achieving universal health coverage and for realizing Sustainable Development Goal 3 to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages,” making it a medical and moral imperative to include such a package in publicly financed universal health coverage. In addition, it can reduce costs for health care systems and national economies and provide financial risk protection for patients and their families. Governments should enact appropriate policies and ensure that health care providers have the necessary competencies by including training in palliative care and pain control in standard undergraduate and postgraduate curricula in medicine, nursing, and other clinical fields. Costing the EP in one low-income country (Rwanda), one lower-middle-income country (Vietnam), and one upper-middle-income country (Mexico), and projecting these costs for LMICs in general, provides guidance on how to integrate the EP into health systems as an essential element of universal health coverage (UHC) in LMICs.
I’m pregnant, I’ve got HIV & also TB
“I’m pregnant, I’ve got HIV & also TB”. This story is told by Busisiwe Beko, a survivor of drug-resistant TB & an activist who has first-hand experience of the struggles of women with children who have the disease as she battled to get proper, timely treatment for her & her baby daughter, who contracted DR-TB. Pregnant people are an under-served & complex population when it comes to drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB). The complexity of pregnancy & DR-TB extends far beyond their physical susceptibility to DR-TB & includes risks of receiving sub-standard care; experiencing stigma & discrimination; being separated from their children; & facing tremendous suffering due to a lack of compassionate counseling.
Connecting Human an Environmental Health
Our Permaculture program at Area 25 Health Centre focuses on establishing a safe, nurturing environment for all patients receiving care at the facility, particularly pregnant women staying at the maternity waiting home. The waiting home is a residential program enabling women to receive essential maternal and neonatal care by housing them adjacent to the birth facility for an average of two weeks. For rural, underserved communities, maternal waiting homes are critical in avoiding delayed care and safeguarding a women’s health during childbirth. We believe this high impact program is well-suited to be highlighted through the CUGH 2023 video competition.
Expanding Health Education, Together
During COVID-19, people around the world faced decreased access to critical health information and routine care that can save lives. The pandemic highlighted the critical role of education in health and the information inequities that exist worldwide. At the Stanford Center for Health Education, we believe that expanding access to engaging education has the power to change behaviors, improve health, and save lives. We are committed to reaching communities worldwide with accurate, timely, and understandable health information. Through our Digital Medic initiative, we co-create and evaluate digital health education materials with health workers and communities on a variety of high-need health topics. With the digital revolution putting mobile devices into the hands of billions of people, digital education programs are more crucial than ever for improving health outcomes and global health equity.
Nodding Syndrome Alliance
The video briefly presents the Nodding Syndrome (NS), a degenerative epileptic condition which primarily affects children aged 5–15 years in onchocerciasis-endemic regions. The Nodding Syndrome Alliance (NSA), in close collaboration with the Ministry of Health, has been offering social and clinical care to hundreds of people with NS in South Sudan, conducting scientific research on its aetiology and its potential prevention strategies, as well as raising awareness at local, national and international level about this neglected condition. It is believed that, today, up to 400,000 people in Africa might be suffering from forms of Onchocerciasis-Associated Epilepsy such as NS.
Success Story of HIV Intervention: HITSystem
A narration of how an innovation called ‘HIT System’ (HIV Infant Tracking System) is saving lives of infants born to HIV positive mothers. It includes a story of Carl Kibet, a success story among many, from the HIT System. Carl Kibet’s mum was initially hesitant to join the HIT System program that would have saved her boy at pregnancy. But the innovative system persuaded her to join the program, facilitating the birth of Carl under a safe environment. Carl was eventually taken through the program which saw him declared HIV free after 18 months.
Capacity Strengthening Platform
This site was created to strengthen training in low income countries by connecting trainers with the training needs of institutions in those countries.
The site allows institutions as well as affiliated individuals to post their training needs and training offerings. The trainings can be in the form of partners, mentors, courses, and other offerings. We invite academic institutions, governments, NGOs and affiliated individuals to share their training needs and offerings.
At this time, we are piloting a “focus area” for postings in the field of implementation science. We intend to extend this “focus” to other high volume areas as the platform posts come online.
2021 Annual Report
This report contains information about CUGH’s priorities, activities, and membership.
2020 Annual Report
This report contains information about CUGH’s priorities, activities, and membership.
2014 - 2015 Annual Report
This report contains information about CUGH’s priorities, activities, and membership.
2016 - 2017 Annual Report
This report contains information about CUGH’s priorities, activities, and membership.
2015 - 2016 Annual Report
This report contains information about CUGH’s priorities, activities, and membership.
2017 - 2019 Annual Report
This report contains information about CUGH’s priorities, activities, and membership.
2013 - 2014 Annual Report
This report contains information about CUGH’s priorities, activities, and membership.
Disease Control Priorities, Fourth Edition: Volume 1. Country-Led Priority Setting for Health
This report contains information about CUGH’s priorities, activities, and membership.
Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition: Volume 9. Chapter 12 – Palliative Care and Pain Control
A universally accessible essential package (EP) of palliative care and pain control can prevent and relieve suffering for chronically or terminally ill patients. It proves indispensable for achieving universal health coverage and for realizing Sustainable Development Goal 3 to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages,” making it a medical and moral imperative to include such a package in publicly financed universal health coverage. In addition, it can reduce costs for health care systems and national economies and provide financial risk protection for patients and their families. Governments should enact appropriate policies and ensure that health care providers have the necessary competencies by including training in palliative care and pain control in standard undergraduate and postgraduate curricula in medicine, nursing, and other clinical fields. Costing the EP in one low-income country (Rwanda), one lower-middle-income country (Vietnam), and one upper-middle-income country (Mexico), and projecting these costs for LMICs in general, provides guidance on how to integrate the EP into health systems as an essential element of universal health coverage (UHC) in LMICs.
An Updated Definition of Global Health, Global Health Research and Policy (2025)
The most cited definition of global health, published in The Lancet in 2009, defines global health as “an area for study,research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people world‑wide”. In this article, we propose an updated definition that expresses the motivations of diverse global health actorsand makes One Health and sustainability more visible: “Global health is a field of academic study, research, policy,and applied practice that advances the equitable protection and improvement of population and planetary health”.Our “5 Ps model” illustrates global health as a grid that places health for all at the center of two axes represent‑ing four domains: (1) People, (2) Planet, (3) Priorities, and (4) Policies and Practices. The people–planet axis spansfrom social, economic, political, and other systems that affect human health to complex worldwide challenges suchas those related to globalization, migration, pandemics, and climate change. The priorities–policies/practices axispositions global health as an action‑oriented field in which factors such as human rights, international law, the globalburden of disease, and evidence of economic impact inform the financing, implementation, and evaluation of multi‑sectoral partnerships and interventions. We propose using this updated definition and the 5 Ps framework to modern‑ize discussions of the scope and purpose of global health
Toolkit: Overcoming Barriers to Implementation in Global Health
The Implementation Science Toolkit from the Fogarty International Center is designed for researchers, policymakers and program implementers working in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Columbia Research Security
The Columbia Research Security website provides updated information about international engagements and research security issues. The website is organized into three sections: Frequently Asked Questions about International Engagements; Research Security Topics (including Researcher Disclosure Requirements); and Columbia’s Commitment to Dissemination of its Research Results.
Neglected Global Diseases Initiative at UBC
Learn more about the Neglected Tropical Diseases Initiative at the University of British Columbia, which focused on developing interventions for developing countries.
NextGenU
The NextGenU platform curates expert-created resources, builds competency-based courses, and supports educators and institutions worldwide.
Economic Evaluation Basics
Cost-effectiveness analysis methods for evidence-based public health resource allocation decisions.
African Academic Diaspora Toolkit
This academic diaspora toolkit is dedicated to the late Prof. Pius Adesanmi, Professor of English and African Literature and Director of the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University.
The Human Resources for Health Program in Rwanda — A New Partnership
A global shortage of 4.3 million health professionals poses a major bottleneck to poor people worldwide with regard to benefiting from the fruits of modern medicine. Among existing health professionals, there are also staggering inequities in skill levels and geographic distribution. Unsurprisingly, the deepest national gaps in human resources for health run parallel to poor population-level health outcomes.
Assessing the twinning model in the Rwandan Human Resources for Health Program: goal setting, satisfaction and perceived skill transfer
Because of the shortage of health professionals, particularly in specialty areas, Rwanda initiated the Human Resources for Health (HRH) Program. In this program, faculty from United States teaching institutions (USF) "twin" with Rwandan Faculty (RF) to transfer skills. This paper assesses the twinning model, exploring USF and RF goal setting, satisfaction and perceptions of the effectiveness of skill transfer within the twinning model.
Webinar: Effective Advocacy in Challenging Times, with ASPPH and the UN Foundation
April 2, 2026
In the lead‑up to CUGH2026, The Future of Global Health (April 9–12, www.cugh2026.org), CUGH hosting this webinar with two of our partners—the Association of Schools and Programs in Public Health and the UN Foundation—focused on strategies and tactics to strengthen your advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill and in your community.
Featuring:
Beeta Rasouli, MPH, Director of Advocacy and Federal Affairs at ASPPH. Beeta drives legislative, regulatory, and policy issues that directly benefit and impact schools, programs, faculty, and students.
Rebecca Maxie, Director of Grassroots Advocacy at the UN Foundation. Rebecca serves as a strategic advisor for a variety of advocacy campaigns with over a decade of experience working on & managing political campaigns.
This webinar originally took place on March 24, 2026.
The America First Global Health Strategy: Leaving America Behind in Global Health Governance
March 18, 2026
The manuscript argues that the second Trump administration’s “America First Global Health Strategy” has accelerated the decline of U.S. leadership in global health by withdrawing from multilateral institutions, dismantling foreign assistance mechanisms, and undermining public health science, placing millions at risk.
Webinar: Appropriations & Advocacy: How to Influence U.S. Federal Spending
February 17, 2026
Understanding the U.S. federal appropriations process is essential for anyone advocating for stronger funding of global health programs and federal agencies. In the United States, Congress holds the “power of the purse,” determining how much money agencies can spend and on which programs.
This CUGH webinar breaks down how the appropriations process works, the annual timeline, and the key moments when advocates can have the greatest influence on federal funding decisions.
Featuring:
Alex Long, U.S. Policy & Advocacy Officer at the Global Health Technologies Coalition (GHTC), this session offers an advocate’s perspective on navigating the process and answers common questions about engaging effectively.
This webinar originally took place on February 17, 2026.
Global Health Education Competencies Tool-kit
The CUGH Global Health Competency Subcommittee of the Education Committee has been instrumental in defining competencies for global health education and professional development, as well as exploring ongoing conversations and controversies around global health competencies and careers. In 2015, the Competency Subcommittee and collaborators published a seminal article in the Annals of Global Health defining levels of proficiency, as well as desirable competencies for two levels – the global citizen level and the basic operational program oriented level. What followed was the publication in 2017 of the first edition of the Competencies Toolkit.
Building Global Health Capacity in the African Region: Leveraging the AFREhealth-CUGH Partnership
See the report from Dr. Elsie Kiguli-Malwadde on the AFREhealth-CUGH Working Group Satellite held at CUGH 2023, and thoughts on how to further leverage the AFREhealth-CUGH partnership.
Health Literacy Tool
Use this tool to assess knowledge retention and methodology so that changes can be made in the delivery, content and style of the lectures.
Reasoning Without Resources Case Studies
A case-series from rural Uganda targeting clinicians in low resource settings, Medicine and Family Medicine residents, and senior medical students with an interest in clinical global health.
Webinar: Campus Representatives Webinar
August 23, 2019
Are you Interested in mobilizing members of your university to inform federal and state governments on the importance of supporting global health investments and addressing student needs?
Join our upcoming webinars with Trainee Advisory Committee Leaders, Sarah Matthews and Anthony Mai, and CUGH’s Executive Director, Dr. Keith Martin, to discuss how campus representatives like you can work with us to engage elected officials on an array of global health issues and student needs. We know that these issues are important to you and your network, and we want to hear about your ideas. In the webinar, we will discuss opportunities on how you can work with CUGH in these areas.
Webinar: Membership Report Webinar
November 28, 2018
Learn about CUGH’s upcoming activities and provide your feedback about how CUGH can support your organization’s work and address the global health challenges we face. CUGH Board Chair Dr. Ann Kurth, Chair and Dr. Keith Martin, CUGH’s Executive Director, will be hosting the webinar. They will discuss CUGH’s priorities and take questions from viewers. This webinar is open to everyone.
Webinar: CUGH, ASPPH, and CSIS Emergency Webinar
On Tuesday, June 20, 2017, Vice President of CSIS, Steve Morrison, and Senior Director of Policy and Research at ASPPH, Tony Mazzaschi, discussed what you can do to fight President Trump’s proposed budget cuts to U.S. global health programs. CUGH Executive Director, Keith Martin, moderated the discussion.