Founded in 2021, the Emory School of Medicine Global Health & Equity Office (GLOBE) aims to improve the health of people who are medically underserved worldwide through faculty, staff and trainee involvement in sustainable and equitable global health education, research and clinical care partnerships.
The strategic priorities focus on:
- Infrastructure: Develop a strong infrastructure for global health initiatives for both faculty and trainees in the SOM. Establish robust policies and comprehensive frameworks to facilitate international travel and engagement for trainees, ensuring effective, ethical, and impactful collaboration across diverse global health settings and SOM support.
- Guiding Principles: Establish principles and best practices for global health that prioritize equity and social justice.
- Engagement: Encourage involvement in global health initiatives across various departments and roles.
- Education: Create and enhance innovative global health education for trainees and students.
- Research: Stimulate interdisciplinary research collaborations in global health.
- Faculty Development: Offer development opportunities for faculty in global health.
- Partnerships: Strengthen partnerships with institutions to build global health capacity.
How Will Your Donation Be Used?
To support global health rotations for residents/fellows, which includes travel, salary, and liability insurance. The rotations will take place at international institutions with an existing long-standing partnership.
To support our international academic partners to visit Emory, especially those from the long-standing partnerships with our SOM global health faculty. Learning from and alongside these partners benefits our students, residents, and fellows greatly, and gives our learners more opportunities for bilateral global health learning and research opportunities.
The Impact of GLOBE
The GLOBE office has helped to support over 100 residents and fellows to go on international rotations to 22 countries from 2022-2024, and academic visitors from over 10 international partner organizations to come to Emory to work with our SOM faculty. With your support, we would like to make this opportunity available to more of our trainees and further support our international academic partners.
