Global Health
The Center's faculty and staff mentor students interested in global health, focusing on service learning and meaningful, transformative experiences. We partner with organizations in Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, and India to promote sustainable improvement in healthcare while also providing students with unique opportunities to practice health care in a resource-poor setting. Our students have traveled to sites worldwide throughout their medical school careers with the Center's guidance.
The Center's faculty help students to prepare for international travel through an elective course called Preparing for Global Health Work, as well as through small group workshops and counsel.
The Center's faculty also mentor students on trips to the US/Mexico border and at clinics on Navajo Indian Reservation.
Our Global Health Curriculum Mission:
- To provide opportunities for community service learning experiences in international settings which deepen students' knowledge in global health and help to address pre-identified needs in the host communities
- To offer a curriculum in global health which builds a foundation of practical knowledge in global health so as to prepare students for overseas work and encourage leadership, ultimately striving to improve the health and human rights of underrepresented populations worldwide
- To encourage scholarly activities related to global health, including research, curricular innovations, and fieldwork
- To promote awareness of global health problems on our University of Texas Health Science Center campus.
- To collaborate in the training of health care providers from other countries with the goal of improving their own country's health care resources and strengthening our global health workforce
