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Department of Public Health - Student Corner: Cultural Competency & Global Health Resources

Resources for MPH, MPH-D, Dental Certificate and Dual DMD/MPH-D and MPH-SOMA students | A.T. Still University - College of Graduate Health Studies

Cultural Competency Resources

From Georgetown University: National Center for Cultural Competence
https://nccc.georgetown.edu/

Cultural Competency Program for Oral Health Professionals
From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services | Office of Minority Health
https://oralhealth.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov/

Resources on "Privilege":

Tim White on White Privilege:
https://youtu.be/_UJlNRODZHA

Justin Ford on the Pedagogy of Privilege:
https://youtu.be/JW9ey3N924Q

Diversity 3.0 Learning Series
From
the Association of American Medical Colleges
https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/diversity/learningseries/

What are "microaggressions"?

Microaggressions: Redressing inequities for college men of color
https://youtu.be/
wR1Jx7qbY4I

How deaf people can teach us about effective communication.

Cradden, J. (2014, February 20). Business Irish.

LGBTQI Health

Why pronouns matter (in 2.5 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_yBGQqg7kM

How are you paying attention to pronouns in your practice?

ATSM Library Guide: LGBTQI Health Research & Practice
http://guides.atsu.edu/
lgbtqihealth

Sexual and Gender Minority Health Resources
From the
Association of American Medical Colleges
https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/diversity/lgbthealthresources/

What LGBTQI students want their professors to know
From the Chronicle of Higher Education
http://www.chronicle.com/article/Ask-Me-What-LGBTQ-Students/232797/?cid=wb&utm_source=wb&utm_medium=en

Stanford online course: Teaching LGBTQ+ Health
https://mededucation.stanford.edu/courses/teaching-lgbtq-health/

(Available for FREE CE credit)

Global Health Ethics

Resources on Ethics in Global Health:

Publications:

Pinto, A., D., & Upshur, E., G. (2009). Global health ethics for students. Developing World Bioethics, 9(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1471-8847.2007.00209.x
Retrieved from http://globalhealth.berkeley.edu/Pinto2009_Bioethics.pdf

Cash, R., Wikler, D., Saxena, A., & Capron, A. (2009). Casebook on ethical issues in International health research. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization. Retrieved from http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/44118/4/9789241547727_eng.pdf


Global Health Ethics course: Ethical challenges in short-term global health training.

A course in global health ethics with review of actual case studies from John Hopkins University's Berman Institute of Bioethics and Stanford University's Center for Innovation in Global Health. The cases are interactive and animated and perpetuate critical thinking from a cultural, professional and ethical perspective.


World Health Organization: Global Health Ethics website

Publications and current topics in global health ethics.


World Health Organization's Genomic Resource Centre : Patient Rights website

Patient rights documents and legislation from around the world

Global Health Resources

World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Database
http://www.who.int/health-accounts/ghed/en/

Some of the resources the WHO Global Health Database provides are:

  • Access to cost of healthcare for the previous ten years for countries all over the world in the NHA Indicators section.
  • General and specific health expenditures are available and presented in a way unique to the country's health system.
  • The Quick Reports area provides information on the Health System Financing, Key Indicators for all Member States, Key Indicators, Sources, and Methods by Country and Indicators; Regional Averages for Key Indicators, and a Bubble Chart providing spending rations and per capita levels of spending in countries over time and much more.
  • The Documentation Center provides definitions, acronyms, a glossary, and an explanation of the statistical procedures used.

Global Oral Health Leaders
gohl.blogspot.com

International Organizations

World Health Organization:  http://www.who.int/en/

United Nations: http://www.un.org/en/index.shtml

Pan American Health Organization: http://www.paho.org/

World Bank Group: http://www.worldbank.org/

European Union: http://europa.eu/index_en.htm

International Labor Organization: http://www.ilo.org/global/lang--en/index.htm

United Nations Development Programme: http://www.undp.org/

UNICEF: http://www.unicef.org/

UN High Commissioner for Refugees: http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/

US Agency for International Development: http://www.usaid.gov/

US Office of Global Affairs  http://www.globalhealth.gov/

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention http://www.cdc.gov/

US National Institutes of Health https://www.nih.gov/institutes-nih

World Food Program http://www.wfp.org/

International Monetary Fund http://www.imf.org/external/index.htm

Non-Government Organizations (partial list of recognized NGO’s)

Global Health Council http://www.globalhealth.org/

International Action http://www.interaction.org/

PATH http://www.path.org/

Save the Children http://www.savethechildren.org

Population Council http://www.popcouncil.org/

Family Care International http://www.familycareintl.org/en/home

International Planned Parenthood http://www.ippf.org/

International Women’s Health Coalition http://www.iwhc.org/

EngenderHealth http://www.engenderhealth.org/index-main.php

CARE http://www.care.org/

Kiwanis International http://www.kiwanis.org/

Rotary International https://www.rotary.org/en

International Rescue Committee http://www.theirc.org/

Gates Foundation Global Health http://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do/Global-Health/Discovery-and-Translational-Sciences

Clinton Foundation http://www.clintonfoundation.org/

Partners in Health http://www.pih.org/

Anti-Slavery International http://www.antislavery.org/english/

Global Policy Issues

Disease Control Priorities Project http://www.dcp-3.org/

RX for Survival http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/rxforsurvival/series/diseases/index.html

US Center for Global Health Policy  http://www.idsaglobalhealth.org/

Center for Global Development http://www.cgdev.org/

WHO World Health Report –  http://www.who.int/whr/en/

Global Health Workforce Alliance http://www.who.int/workforcealliance/en/

Global Health Education Consortium https://globalhealtheducation.org/