Transformative education for global health

Challenges

Does health professional education for global health need to be rethought?

Several factors have led to a period of reflection: persisting inequities in health worldwide; increasing transnational and trans-professional interdependency; and convergence of health needs between resource rich and resource poor nations.

A compelling case has been made for greater synergy between health and education systems, nationally and globally, notably by The Lancet Commission. What steps are needed to educate future health professionals to take responsibility not only for individual patients and communities but also for the health systems that serve them?

Opportunities

This one-day symposium is an opportunity for students and staff, both educators and researchers,  to contribute actively  to discussions, find out more about work in the field, and to develop  cross-disciplinary links.

It is jointly organised by UCL Institute for Global Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the  London International Development Centre. Between them, they span three key academic communities with a wealth of experience and expertise in the fields of global health, international development and health professional education.

We hope the day will start to build consensus on the challenges and solutions, foster future collaboration in the area of health professional education and debate the following aspects of health professional education in an interdependent world in workshops:      

• Education for health systems development: competency based  or transformative?
• Training for leadership, teamwork and advocacy.
• Global health curricula for health professionals.
• Tensions between professionalization, regulation and inter-disciplinary working.
• Can institutions be socially accountable?

Audience

Aimed at staff and students from local institutions.The event may be of interest to any outside students, academics, health professionals and policy makers with an interest in global health

Registration

Please download the registration form and return it to ICH Events.