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About Us
Teach Global Health is a professional development initiative designed to support global health educators through workshops, a community of educators, and peer reviewed activities and resources. The Summer Institute provides an opportunity to share pedagogies, evaluate curricular programs and assessment tools, and participate in charrettes designed to refine course and curricular materials.
Teach Global Health aims to empower educators to develop global health curricula that is centered on health equity, addresses critical and emerging topical areas, and strives to prepare both global health professionals and educated global citizens planning to enter a wide range of other career pathways, including medicine and other clinical professions, policy, regional planning, law.
Participants will:
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Gain facility in understanding key global health learning outcomes and competencies,
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Gain an understanding of strengths and challenges of distinct curricular models,
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Explore a range of active learning strategies to address timely issues and concerns in global health,
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Become connected to a robust community of educators who intentionally focus on foundational theories of global health and active learning approaches to transform students into global citizens across a wide range of career pathways.
The Teach Global Health Leadership Team and Advisory Board include world experts in global health education. We are grateful for the insight and contributions made by members of our Advisory Board. Our Educator Advisory Board, comprised of Teach Global Health alumni and leaders in educational theory and practice in global health, provide valuable guidance from a range of institutions around the globe to ensure our program offers timely and valuable resources and activities for our participants. Our Program Coordinators run most of the day-to-day activities in preparation for our Summer Institute, and as the session nears, you will be in regular contact with these tremendous individuals ensuring program details for a productive workshop.
Leadership Team
CARYL E. WAGGETT
PhD
Allegheny College
Professor and Founding Chair, Global Health Studies
Director, Teach Global Health
DAWN MICHELE WHITEHEAD
PhD, MS
Vice President, Office of Global Citizenship for Campus, Community, and Careers, Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U)
Co-Director, Teach Global Health
BARBARA ASTLE
PhD, RN
Director, MSN Program, and Professor of Nursing, Trinity Western University
(Canada)
CAROLINA BOLAÑOS PALMIERI
MSc
Director of Programs, Child Family Health International (CFHI)
Associate Director, Centro Inter-Americano Para Salud Global (CISG)
(Costa Rica)
CARLOS FAERRON GUZMÁN
MD, MSc
Associate Director, Planetary Health Alliance
Assistant Professor and Director, Global Health Programs, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Director, Centro Inter-Americano Para Salud Global (CISG)
(Costa Rica)
KATHRYN H. JACOBSEN
PhD, MPH
Professor of Health Studies and William E Cooper Distinguished University Chair, University of Richmond
Advisory Board
DOROTHY A. BIBERMAN
MPH
Director of Global Engagement and Executive Initiatives, Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health (ASPPH)
ASHTI DOOBAY-PERSAUD
MD
Co-Director, Center for Global Health Education, Institute for Global Health
Faculty Director, Master of Science in Global Health,
Associate Professor at Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
JESSICA EVERT
MD
Global Medical Director, Child Family Health International (CFHI)
HAO LI
PhD, MBA
Editor-in-Chief, Global Health Research and Policy
Vice Chair, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health, Wuhan University (China)
PHIL LANDRIGAN
MD, MSc
Editor, Annals of Global Health
Director, Global Public Health Program and Global Observatory on Planetary Health, Boston College
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MAUREEN LITCHVELD
MD, MPH
Dean, School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
GREG MARTIN
MD, MPH, MBA
Director, Health Protection Surveillance Centre
Editor, Globalization and Health
(Ireland)
IJEOMA NNODIM OPARA
IMD, FAAP, FAIM
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, Wayne State University School of Medicine & Wayne Health
KEITH MARTIN
MD, PC
Executive Director, Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH)
KEN PINNOW
PhD
Associate Professor, History, Global Health Studies, Allegheny College
Educator Advisory Board
PAM BERENBAUM
Middlebury College
RENE ENGLISH
Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
ANITA ESQUERRA-ZWIERS
Hope College
TODD FAUBION
University of Washington
JOLYNN GARDNER
American University
MEREDITH GARTIN
University of Alabama
CHRISTINA GUNTHER
Sacred Heart University
MORIAH MCSHARRY-MCGRATH
Portland State University
CHINEKWU OBIDOA
Mercer University
JOHN OLAWEPO
Northeastern University
PAMELA RUNESTAD
Elon University
SHAILENDRA SAWLESHWARKAR
University of Sydney (Australia)
VESTA SILVA
Allegheny College
TAKU SUZUKI
Denison University
DANIELLE THEIS
University of Nebraska
HEATHER WIPFLI
University of Southern California
Program Coordinators
KATE FOLKENROTH
Allegheny College
LESLIE GUADALUPE BRISEÑO
Allegheny College
JOEL PSZCZOLKOWSKI
Allegheny College
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LAUREN PETRARCA
Allegheny College
Our Collaborating Organizations
Learn about Global Health
at Allegheny College
Global health is an emerging academic field that prepares students for a range of career pathways in a complex, interconnected world. It emphasizes the multiple determinants of health and is imbued with the commitment to equity. The “global” in global health refers to ‘holistic’ or ‘universal,’ (not 'international.' And ‘health’ is more inclusive than just physical health--it reflects the World Health Organization’s definition of health that incorporates all of the social, economic, environmental, and structural factors that lead to health.
We encourage students to recognize the complex and interconnected policies, communities, and perspectives that impact individual and population health. Our students use a variety of frameworks, methods, and approaches to define and engage with issues relevant to the field. Given the influence of culture on responses to health issues—medical and public health interventions, policies, and research—we seek to prepare our majors and minors to be responsible global citizens who possess a self-reflexive awareness of power, privilege, and difference within a multiplicity of contexts, and who have the capacity to actively listen actively and communicate effectively with a wide range of audiences.
