Global health opportunities in family medicine

The vision should equally emphasize the benefits for U.S. participants and priorities of the international partner or community. A clearly defined mission statement should guide any program, delineating goals, responsibilities, motivation and the anticipated effect on participants and the host community. A mutual, reciprocally beneficial focus should be clear in the mission. Goals must reflect equitable responsibility and contribution, anticipated influence on all involved, including the community at large, altruistic motivation and service, benefits, costs and methods for assessment and revision.

A collaborative attitude and approach while exploring and developing international relationships is essential. Interactions while in country and during the intervals between trips must facilitate ongoing communication and service to partner communities. Internet and cell phone technology make communication possible anywhere in the world. Communities and international partners should be active collaborators in all studies and evaluations. They should receive results and reports of participants’ experiences and any studies conducted.

Address health needs, including public health and community priorities. Assure resources are consistent with goals. Recognize that a community’s needs may not primarily involve direct care. Collaboration with a government agency, a non-government agency or a community organization is essential.

Enhance and develop the skills, abilities, competence and stature of our international colleagues, local caregivers, members of the health care system of the country and volunteers or participants. Prepare all participants for the experience. Assess their skills and knowledge to limit responsibility to an appropriate level of capability. The curriculum should include a review of the mission, the participant’s role, personal and social impact of the project, risks and personal safety, standards of social and professional behavior and respect for privacy and confidentiality. Note the need for language proficiency among the delegation.

The program should show a commitment to an ongoing relationship, contributing to sustained improvement in health outcomes of the community, not self-serving to the participants and consistent with the community’s cultural standards. Through long-term relationships, collaboration and cooperation with in-country organizations and entities, strive to augment, enhance or develop local services for long-term impact.

Assess the benefits, liabilities and deficits of the program through ongoing reevaluation. Analysis of the effects on the hosts and the participants should avoid exploitation, cultural inappropriateness and exacerbating poverty or insufficiencies and should minimize or avoid unintentional adverse consequences. Evaluate the outcomes for all involved parties, both positive and negative, and identify any remaining challenges. Programs should actively collect feedback from participants regarding the relationship, service, education and sustainability of the project. The community should evaluate the program’s impact and share leadership and responsibility for the program.

Directory of non-NIH funding opportunities—grants and fellowships: This directory includes a variety of international grants and fellowships in biomedical and behavioral research. It provides information on additional funding opportunities for those in global health research.

Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholars Program: This program provides opportunities for physician-in-training scholars during their residency and career physician scholars for six-week rotations overseas. Program sites vary. In previous years, they were in Eritrea, Honduras, South Africa, Uganda and Vietnam.

Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) International Health Studies Grant Program: Students and resident physician members of the MMS are eligible to apply for grants up to $2,000 to defray the costs of study in another country. The MMS will donate sufficient funds to the Foundation to underwrite five grants annually, with future provisions to invite private or corporate donations to expand the number and/or size of grants.

American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) Overseas Assistance Grant: The AMWA provides grants up to $1,000 for assistance with transportation costs (airfare, train fare, etc.) connected with pursuing medical studies in an off-campus setting where the medically-neglected benefit.

Benjamin H. Kean Travel Fellowship in Tropical Medicine: This award provides round-trip airfare and up to $1,000 toward living expenses for medical students proposing electives in clinical tropical medicine with at least one month at a site endemic for tropical communicable diseases.

Sara’s Wish Foundation Scholarship: Sara’s Wish offers scholarships for extraordinary young women committed to making the world a better place by defraying the costs associated with traveling to all areas of the globe.

Herbert W. Nickens Medical Student Scholarships: This award is for outstanding students entering their third year of medical school who have shown leadership in efforts to eliminate inequities in medical education and health care. Awardees will have demonstrated leadership efforts in addressing educational, societal and health care needs of minorities in the United States.

Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars: The program supports one year of mentored clinical research training at a site in resource-limited and transitional countries. It also provides a stipend for an international graduate student to work alongside the U.S. trainee during the clinical research year.

Fulbright: Fulbright scholarships offer international exchange opportunities for students, scholars and professionals to undertake international graduate study, advanced research, university teaching and teaching in elementary and secondary schools worldwide.

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Student Summer Fellowship: Medical students may apply for either the research fellowship or the service fellowship, which includes a $4,000 stipend for a 10-week period.

JAMA Career Center: Volunteer opportunities: Physicians Volunteer Service Opportunities Abroad lists nonprofit and faith-based organizations providing volunteer opportunities for physicians abroad.

Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER): FAIMER’s International Opportunities in Medical Education survey of U.S. and Canadian medical schools, done jointly with the Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC) and Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), contains information about international programs for medical students, residents and faculty.

The University of Washington International Health Group: The University of Washington (UW) International Health Group provides a list of non-UW opportunities in international health.

International Health Care Opportunities Clearinghouse (IHOC): The International Health Care Opportunities Clearinghouse (IHOC) is designed for health care professionals and students who are interested in volunteer work with underserved communities at home or abroad.

American Medical Student Association (AMSA) International Health Opportunities Directory: The International Health Opportunities Directory is a searchable, mobile-friendly online directory of information on global health programs and organizations worldwide.

Amazon Promise offers a specialized volunteer program, including the summer health care internship program for medical students, to enhance medical training with hands-on experience helping underserved populations.

Contact: Jacqueline Carroll, volunteer coordinator
Countries: Peru

American Baptist International Ministries, organized in 1814, is the oldest Baptist Mission agency formed in North America. It serves more than 2,500 short-term missionaries annually.

Contact: Angela Suderman, coordinator of volunteers in global missions, (800) 222-3872, x2164
Countries: China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominican Republic, Haiti, India, Japan, Nepal, Nicaragua, Philippines, Thailand

American Jewish World Service is an international development organization dedicated to alleviating poverty, hunger and disease among the people of the developing world regardless of race, religion or nationality.

Contact: Andrea Richardson
Countries: Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Liberia, Senegal, Sudan, Uganda, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Burma, Cambodia, India, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand

Bridges to Community is a nonprofit community development organization that takes volunteers to developing countries to work, learn and reflect. Through the process of living and working with local communities on construction, health and environmental projects, Bridges promotes cross-cultural learning, a deepening awareness of our global interdependence and a commitment to the common good.

Contact: Executive director
Countries: Nicaragua, Kenya

Cachamsi is a nonprofit international medicine program located in the Andean highlands of Ecuador. Cachamsi is one of the few international medicine rotations that offers structured medical Spanish classes and volunteer opportunities among a unique indigenous population. Participants will gain an appreciation of cross-cultural medicine and enjoy a vibrant and stimulating experience in Ecuador.

Contact: Jorge Duchicela, MD
Countries: Ecuador

Caring Partners International

Contact: (937) 473-2744
Countries: Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Ukraine

CMMB’s Medical Volunteer Program (MVP) addresses the global human resources for health crisis by recruiting and placing volunteers at health care facilities in resource-poor countries around the world.

Contact: CMMB staff
Countries: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Ecuador, Peru, Paraguay, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, West Bank/Gaza, Mauritania, Gambia, Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa

Children of Peace International(COPI) is a humanitarian organization dedicated to helping the people of Vietnam develop the capability to help themselves. Through the financial and material support of orphanages, hospitals and clinics, as well as two medical missions each year, COPI offers hope and help to those in need.

Contact: Mission coordinator
Country: Vietnam

Concern America is a nonprofit, nonsectarian and nongovernmental development and refugee aid organization. Its International Health Immersion Program is a unique opportunity for all health care students, residents in medicine and health care professionals to receive a hands-on learning experience in Guatemala.

Contact: Recruitment coordinator
Countries: Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Mozambique

Foundation for Sustainable Development provides comprehensive training and immersion programs for interns and volunteers who seek hands-on development experience in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Program participants come from countless professions and more than 300 universities worldwide to collaborate with our partner organizations on community-driven projects that reflect sustainable principles.

Contact: Training coordinator
Countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, India, Kenya, Nicaragua, Peru, Uganda

Global Medical Brigades is an international network of more than 50 university clubs and volunteer organizations that provide communities in developing countries with sustainable health care solutions. It is the world’s largest student-led international relief organization.

Contact: Global Medical Brigades
Countries: Nicaragua, Honduras, Panama, Ghana, China, India, Vietnam

Global Service Corps is an international service-learning organization built on the participation of its volunteers, staff and advisers in developed and developing countries. Its program is established on the view that the personal lives and activities of people around the world are increasingly intertwined. An international health internship program is available.

Contact: Volunteer coordinators
Countries: Cambodia, Tanzania, Thailand

Global Volunteers is a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian and nongovernmental organization engaging short-term volunteers on microeconomic and human development programs in close partnership with local people worldwide.

Contact: Volunteer coordinators
Countries: Ecuador, Peru, Tanzania, Cook Islands, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Poland

Health Horizons International is a nonprofit organization that provides quality primary health care to underserved patients of the Dominican Republic and build local capacity for achieving improved community health.

Contact: Elizabeth Geier, executive director
Countries: Dominican Republic

HealthCare Nepal (USA) provides free care in rural Nepal through short-term health camps. Camps are initiated by local village organizations and coordinated by doctors from Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Kathmandu, in collaboration with HealthCare Nepal. Camps are staffed by Nepalese physicians and surgeons, with volunteer clinicians from the United States and other countries.

Contact: Jack Starmer
Country: Nepal

Helping Hands Health Education is a nonprofit organization with the main objective of bringing low-cost quality medical relief services to people in rural villages of Nepal and Vietnam through the help of Western medical and non-medical volunteers.

Contact: Volunteer coordinators
Countries: Nepal, Vietnam

HELPS International is a nonprofit corporation that partners with individuals, businesses, corporations and local and national governments to alleviate poverty in Latin America. HELPS integrated programs include medical care, education, community and economic development and agricultural innovations to improve the quality of life for the indigenous people of Latin America.

Contact: HELPS International
Countries: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Mexico

Himalayan Health Exchange is a humanitarian service program bringing together health care professionals who give of their time, talent and resources to provide care to the underserved populations in select, remote areas of the Indo-Tibetan Borderlands. Medical students work side by side with local and U.S.-based health care providers in a spirit of learning and informational and/or technical exchange.

Contact: Volunteer coordinators
Countries: North India, Nepal (Himalayas)

Institute for International Medicine (INMED) is an educational nonprofit organization providing clinical rotations in developing nations with fully-qualified preceptors and online and classroom courses in international medicine, international HIV medicine and international public health.

Contact: Nicholas Comninelis, MD, MPH
Countries: Angola, Cameroon, China, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Jordan, Kenya, Macau, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia

International Service Learning (ISL) presents a unique opportunity for students to be part of an international health team. As an international educational agency, ISL provides medical and educational teams of volunteers to provide services for the underserved populations of Central and South America, Mexico and Africa.

Contact: Program coordinators
Countries: Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Dominican Republic, Peru, Africa

Medical Electives Network, based in Peru, provides structured, AAFP-accredited, medical Spanish immersion programs alongside hospital rotations in a variety of health care facilities. The organization also coordinates free surgical missions in partnership with visits to international surgical teams. The Medical Electives Network employs health care professionals and language teachers to ensure participants advance as quickly as possible, regardless of their current level of Spanish.

Contact: Kevin Hurley (Kevin@medical-electives.net)
Country: Peru

Mission Doctors Association is the only program in the United States exclusively dedicated to recruiting, training, sending and supporting Catholic doctors and their families to serve at mission hospitals and clinics around the world.

Contact: Mission Doctors Association staff
Countries: Uganda, Zimbabwe, Ghana, Cameroon, Ecuador, Guatemala

Physicians for Peace was founded in 1989, dedicated to the ideal that health care in the developing world can best be improved by providing training and education to health care professionals in those countries.

Contact: Program coordinator
Countries: Worldwide

Project HOPE is unique among international organizations, having always worked across the health spectrum in a wide variety of settings—from the family and community levels to the tertiary care level—training traditional birth attendants and community health volunteers where resources are limited and cardiac surgeons and biomedical engineers where technology is appropriate.

Contact: Tracy L. Anderson, senior development coordinator
Countries: Worldwide

Project Vietnam is a nonprofit humanitarian program that provides health care assistance to children in poor rural communities of Vietnam.

Contact: Project Vietnam staff
Country: Vietnam

St. Francis’ Hospital is a large rural hospital serving a local population of over 200,000 within a 60 km radius and receiving specialist referrals from all over Eastern Province (about 1.5 million people). Medical students travel from all over the world to spend their electives at St. Francis’ Hospital.

Contact: Richard Newell, MD
Country: Zambia

Timmy Global Health is a nonprofit that works to expand access to health care in poor, rural, isolated or underserved communities, which also empowers the next generation of global health leaders. Timmy offers opportunities for 2nd- and 3rd-year residents and attending physicians who would like to volunteer on a short-term medical service trip, but as part of a long-term commitment to a local partner in each country.

Contact: Brett Hesse, MD, medical director, or Alyssa Rossodivita, volunteer coordinator
Countries: Ecuador, Guatemala, Dominican Republic

Volunteers in Medical Missions (VIMM) is a team of Christian doctors, nurses and other volunteers that minister to the physical and spiritual needs of children and adults in developing countries throughout the world. VIMM provides opportunities for Christian medical professionals and other volunteers to experience missions firsthand.

Contact: Kathy Cater, trip coordinator
Countries: Belize, Bulgaria, China, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sudan. Tanzania, Thailand

Brown Family Medicine Faculty Development for Global Health Fellowship: This unique, two-year fellowship program is a joint project of the Department of Family Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University/Kent Hospital of Rhode Island, Thundermist Community Health Center and Blackstone Value Community Health Center, leading federally-funded community health centers in Rhode Island. Family physicians pursuing careers in global health are often called upon to engage in teaching, leadership, clinical care and research in low- and middle-income countries. This fellowship is specifically designed to equip physicians with the skills necessary to meet these needs. The goal of the program is to provide fellows with a strong foundation in teaching, leadership and clinical skills for a variety of settings and learners, curriculum design and educational scholarship.

Additional information

Daria Szkwarko, DO, MPH
Clinical assistant professor and director of Global Health Faculty Development Fellowship
Department of Family Medicine
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
111 Brewster Street
Pawtucket, RI, 02860
Szkwarkd@gmail.com

Cahaba Medical Care: The Cahaba Family Medicine Global Health Fellowship is a one-year, post-residency fellowship that aims to train family medicine physicians who wish to devote much of their clinical practice to international medicine. Upon successful completion of the fellowship, fellows will have completed a tropical medicine course and be eligible to sit for the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene CTropMed exam. The fellowship includes dedicated time to learning ultrasound, wound care, HIV and TB care. Fellows will also have up to 12 weeks for international rotations.

The fellowship will also include a spiritual development curriculum to help the fellow grow in their commitment to love and serve people all over the world and learn to integrate the practice of medicine and faith.

Additional information

Casey Hicks, MD
Global Health fellowship director
casey.hicks@cahabamedicalcare.com

Contra Costa/University of California San Francisco Fellowship: The Contra Costa/UCSF Global Health Fellowship’s mission is to equip family physicians with the knowledge and experience to be leaders in global health. Our global health fellows support the development of nascent family medicine residency programs and primary care delivery in under-resourced countries through collaboration, mentorship and clinical education. As a global health fellow, you will have the opportunity to learn, serve and teach abroad for six months of the one-year fellowship. In the other six months, you will receive training in clinical Family Medicine, tropical medicine, POCUS, faculty development, and coursework in global health leadership skills and research at UCSF.

Additional information

Matthew Fentress, MD, MSc, DTM&H
Matthew.Fentress@cchealth.org

Neil Jayasekera, MD
Neil.Jayasekera@cchealth.org

Florida State University College of Medicine Global Health Fellowship at Lee Health: This is a one-year fellowship to train physicians in global health. Fellows spend 40% to 50% of their time overseas at mission hospitals and international family medicine residencies in alternating two to three month cycles. Time spent stateside is in Ft. Myers, Florida, where fellows work as junior faculty with much flexibility of schedule and time protected for learning in tropical medicine, faculty development, orthopedics and trauma, HIV, ultrasound, travel clinic and language skills.

Additional information

Lee Coghill, MD
FSU COM Family Medicine Residency at Lee Health
(239) 849-7907
lee.coghill@leehealth.org

HEAL Initiative Fellowship: The HEAL Initiative Fellowship recruits U.S.-trained physicians from a variety of specialties (internal medicine, family medicine, Med-Peds, Peds, OBGYN, Psychiatry, Surgery, Anesthesiology) who are passionate about global health equity. During the two-year fellowship, HEAL fellows are immersed in partner organizations that serve the underserved, splitting their time between a U.S. and an international site. For family medicine trained fellows, the placement sites in the U.S. include the Navajo Nation and Natividad Medical Center in Salinas, California. Internationally, placement countries include Mexico, Mali, Liberia and Malawi. Half of the HEAL fellows are U.S. physicians and the other half are HEAL fellows from our partner sites. This allows for an incredibly diverse and interprofessional training community.

Fellows participate in intensive in-person training, mentorship, an online graduate degree, ongoing curriculum and can join a community of like-minded and passionate health professionals. Applicants must have completed a residency program by the start of their fellowship.

Additional information

Joseph Scarpelli, MPH
Program director, HEAL Initiative
University of California, San Francisco
(510) 725-5784

In His Image Global Health Fellowship: The goal of the In His Image Global Health Fellowship is to further equip family medicine physicians to provide broad spectrum medical and spiritual care to the underserved in an international, cross-cultural context. The one-year, post-residency fellowship is designed to provide additional training in full-scope international clinical experience, tropical medicine, personal spiritual development and/or faith integration and preparation to transition overseas. Fellows will spend five months rotating between two to three international sites, while the domestic months will consist of academic training, rotations (wound care, HIV, POCUS, orthopedic urgent care) and clinical work at a family medicine clinic in north Tulsa, and ED shifts at a rural Oklahoma hospital. The fellowship is structured to be flexible so that each fellow can tailor their experience to best suit their specific needs.

Additional information

Matthew Lee Haney DO
Program director
7501 Riverside Pkwy
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74136
mhaney@inhisimage.org

University of Arizona College of Medicine Global Health Intensive Course: Started in 1982, this intensive three-week global health and public health course aims to prepare health professionals to work in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) by giving them the basis to analyze issues which affect health in those settings. This is a full-time (approx. 135 hours), in-person, small group and problem-solving, interactive course. Interdisciplinary course faculty come from a variety of fields and bring their experiences and expertise to the course.

The course is also offered in a virtual format (MED 896O Global Health Online Intensive Course), consisting of individual learning modules based on the in-person materials (through Community D2L).

Additional information

Sommer Aldulaimi, MD, co-director, Global Health Programs, aldulaim@arizona.edu
Jerry Koleski, MD, co-director, Global Health Programs, jkoleski@arizona.edu
Department of Family & Community Medicine
1501 N Campbell Ave.
PO Box 245472
Tucson, Arizona 85724

The Medical Elective Network (Peru): Global Health in Peru: The Medical Elective Network offers health care professionals and students the opportunity to experience health care provision in Peru and develop their medical Spanish skills. This program is available for a period from two to ten weeks. Participants can choose to combine a medical Spanish immersion program with clinical rotations or to participate on just one of these two program elements. All participants get involved in weekly community health fairs, attending to different resource-poor communities in different areas of the city.

Hospital rotations are available at several hospitals and in most areas of medicine. The medical Spanish immersion course is taught at all levels by our team of both physicians and language teachers. Classes can be taken for four or seven hours per day.

Additional information

Kevin Hurley, director
The Medical Elective Network
kevin@medical-electives.net

Fogarty Global Health Training Program: The Fogarty Global Health Training Program offers opportunities in global health research training for pre- and post-doctoral candidates from the U.S. and lower-middle-income countries, sponsored by the Fogarty International Center and several collaborating institutes and centers at the NIH. The purpose of the program is to generate a new cadre of global health researchers, educators and professionals who will be prepared to address the new challenges in global health. The program will provide fellows with a one-year mentored research fellowship in innovative global health research to promote health equity for populations worldwide. Thirteen training sites across nine countries in Africa and Asia are available in 2017-18 through the Harvard-BU-Northwestern-UNM Consortium.

Additional information

Patricie Niyitegeka, assistant director
Global Health Research Partnership
Department of Global Health and Population
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
pniyiteg@hsph.harvard.edu

University of Minnesota Online Global Health Curriculum: This program offers two options for health care providers interested in improving their knowledge and skills in global health. The comprehensive Online Global Health Course provides a foundation for practitioners who already include, or plan to include, international medicine in their careers. The other option is to enroll in the family medicine specialty series module, which offers an additional path for primary care providers and health practitioners seeking a more focused curriculum.

Additional information

Norrie Zier
Variety Club Research Center
401 East River Parkway, Ste. 131
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
(612) 626-3526
gblhlth@umn.edu

Institute for International Medicine (INMED): INMED exists to equip health care professionals and students with the unique skills necessary to effectively serve the world’s most forgotten people. We are a nonprofit educational organization that offers didactic instruction in the full range of global health topics via online, hybrid and in-classroom courses, as well as through conferences. We also complement such instruction with supervised service-learning experiences for health care students and professionals at over 45 INMED Training Sites in 20 low-resource countries.

Additional information

Nicholas Comninellis, MD, MPH, DIM and PH
President and CEO, Institute for International Medicine
2340 E. Meyer Blvd, Building 1, Suite 338-A
Kansas City, Missouri 64132
nicholas@inmed.us

Kaiser Permanente Medical Group (Northern California) Community Medicine and Global Health Fellowship at Napa/Solano: The CMGH fellowship is designed to train family medicine physicians to become teachers, mentors and leaders in community medicine and global health. During this 13-month fellowship (July 1 – July 31), fellows will work with CMGH faculty to provide Community-Oriented Primary Care in medically underserved communities and engage in health disparities research and community-based research projects. Fellows will spend some of their clinical time at La Clinica North Vallejo and Ole Health in Napa, occasionally precepting medical students and residents. Additionally, fellows will facilitate relationships between community partners and the Kaiser Napa Solano Family Medicine Residency Program (KPNSFMRP) to integrate enriching, educational experiences into the resident community medicine rotation and the medical student community medicine sub-internship.

Additional information

Jennifer Ly
Jennifer.d.ly@kp.org

University of Cincinnati Family Medicine Global Health Fellowship: The University of Cincinnati Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Urban, Underserved and Global Health offers a one or two-year, post-residency Global Health Faculty Development Fellowship designed for physicians interested in caring for underserved and/or vulnerable populations while strengthening their competency and academic standing in global health through scholarship activity. Two-year fellows can get tuition remission for a Master's in Public Health (with a concentration in global health) or a Master's in Science in Clinical and Translational Research, or a discount on a Master's in Medical Education. Tuition remission is available for fellows for a graduate certificate in Clinical and Translational Research, Community-Engaged Research for Health, or a discount is available for a certificate in Medical Education. A discount is also available for fellows to participate in WVU's Clinical Tropical Medicine Course.

The fellowship involves about 20 hours per week of clinical care for underserved and immigrant and/or refugee populations in Cincinnati through the City of Cincinnati Health Department Primary Care offices, and four weeks per year of clinical work within our partnership with Wuqu’ Kawoq/Maya Health Alliance in Guatemala. Depending on partner capacity, an alternate site is with Village Life Outreach Project in Shirati, Tanzania. Fellows are able to be trained in asylum medicine through a medicolegal partnership with the Immigrant & Refugee Law Center.

Family medicine physicians excited to make global health part of their career with a focus on either Latin America or Sub-Saharan Africa are encouraged to apply. Fellowship salary is based on PGY level with entry-level adjunct faculty appointment.

Additional information

Rebecca Fujimura MD
Fellowship program director
University of Cincinnati Department of Family & Community Medicine
fujimurl@ucmail.uc.edu

University of Massachusetts (UMass) Family Medicine Global Health Fellowship: The UMass Family Medicine Global Health Fellowship seeks to train family physicians to become leaders in global family medicine by training them to be clinicians, advocates, community health scholars and teachers locally and globally through equitable local-global partnerships. Family Medicine Global Health Fellowship training will be done in collaboration with UMass Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine Global Health Fellowship with opportunities for joint learning, collaboration and experience sharing.

University of South Carolina Global Health Fellowship: The University of South Carolina Global Health Fellowship is an innovative program that will substantially expand a physician’s efforts to advance health around the world through research, education and clinical service.

This is a two-year program which partners with the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, the Arnold School of Public Health, Palmetto Health Richland Memorial Hospital and Fairfield Memorial Hospital, as well as international partners to focus on strengthening primary care capacity in developing nations. A strong body of literature demonstrates that, across the spectrum of national incomes, nations with strong primary care have better health outcomes at lower cost. Conversely, medical disasters, such as the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak, highlight that nations with weak health systems are particularly vulnerable to such unexpected and overwhelming needs. Despite this clear need, historically, relatively few efforts have targeted primary care development.

Now is a key time to change the global health conversation by increasing the emphasis on primary care as the foundation for treating the wide variety of medical problems humanity faces. Hence the need for primary care physicians to gain the public health skills and practical experience needed to revolutionize health care systems at home and around the world.

Additional information

Jeffrey W.W. Hall, MD

USC/Prisma Health Travel Clinic medical director
Global Health post-graduate fellowship director
Adjunct associate professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Outcomes Sciences
Clinical professor of Family and Preventive Medicine
University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Email: Jeff.hall@uscmed.sc.edu

University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) Global Health Fellowship in Comprehensive Health: The UPenn Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, in collaboration with the Guatemala-Penn-Partners and the Hospitalito Atitlan, is offering the Global Health Fellowship in Comprehensive Health. This unique opportunity allows a fellow to develop clinical, educational and leadership skills in the care of underserved populations in West Philadelphia and Santiago Atitlan, Guatemala.

The fellow has the option of a one- or two-year fellowship with clinical, community outreach and teaching responsibilities at both Penn Family Care and the Hospitalito Atitlan. Responsibilities will include low risk OB, inpatient, outpatient and community outreach as well as, supervision of residents and medical students teaching in the Hospitalito.

Additional information

Anna Doubeni, MD, MPH
Anna.doubeni@uphs.upenn.edu

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Family Medicine Faculty Development Global Health Fellowship: UPMC Family Medicine Faculty Development for Global Health Fellowship seeks to prepare physicians for global leadership in Family Medicine Education by building on established training in Family Medicine scholarship and education through international medicine, public health, cultural competence and health care leadership training in international contexts. Graduates will be prepared to contribute to Family Medicine residency training and medical school departments in the U.S. and globally.

Additional information

Paul Larson, MD, MS, DTMH

University of Washington (UW) Global Health Fellowship: The UW Fellowship in Global Health is designed to train future leaders, including academic faculty, in global health. The fellowship is a one-year, post-residency training opportunity focusing on further developing skills and expertise in working with underserved populations in the United States and within resource-poor settings globally.

The Global Health Fellowship consists of longitudinal clinical experiences in primary care, as well as specialty rotations and opportunities to work abroad for up to two months. The fellow will have his or her continuity clinic based at the UW Family Medicine Residency Northgate Clinic, where he or she will also act as faculty for the UW Northgate Travel Clinic.

Specialty rotations will be determined by the fellows’ specific interests and can include opportunities at local tuberculosis, HIV and infectious disease clinics, as well as other travel medicine clinical sites and county public health centers. Additionally, fellows may take courses in UW’s Department of Global Health during the fellowship. Academic research is encouraged and expected. Educational experiences are supported with a strong didactic series and journal club. The fellow is also encouraged to be active in national global health organizations and present at local and national meetings and conferences.

The UW Global Health Fellowship is ideal for dynamic, bright and energetic applicants with a desire to develop strong clinical, research and teaching skills, and who want to make a true impact in the field of global health and development.

Additional information

Gwen Credit, MA
University of Washington Family Medicine Residency
Global Health Fellowship
331 NE Thornton Place
Seattle, Washington, 98125
ghfellow@u.washington.edu

Ventura Global Health Fellowship: The Ventura Family Medicine Residency Faculty and the Ventura Global Health Project have collaborated to offer a unique fellowship opportunity. This one-year program focuses on hands-on training in both domestic and international underserved populations, and takes place in Ventura, California, N’Djamena Chad, Monrovia Liberia and Santo Tomas de la Union Guatemala. Fellows and partner sites aim to have a sustainable impact in the communities they work while providing valuable services in the field. The program supports a model of global health that focuses on community needs and education for tomorrow’s global health practitioners.

Additional information

Jim Neitz
jneitz@venturaghp.org
(805) 701-1812

Via Christi International Family Medicine Fellowship (IFMF): The IFMF was developed and launched in 2008 to train American family physicians that have a purpose and passion to serve in developing countries. For those who have served as a medical student or resident, one quickly recognizes that our American medical training is not adequate to prepare a physician to serve effectively in developing countries where human and medical resources are limited, diseases are different and the scope of your practice is much broader than what is expected of a family physician in the U.S.

The IFMF was developed to address these areas and to give family physicians a unique knowledge base and clinical skills set necessary to serve effectively and successfully among the poor and underserved in developing countries. The IFMF is a tangible expression of the mission statement of Via Christi with a goal to provide real training to mobilize a force of compassionate, competent family physicians that will go and make a real difference in transforming the lives and health of nations.

Additional information

Patrick L Allen, MD
Todd Stephens, MD
Via Christi International Family Medicine Fellowship
707 N. Emporia
Wichita, Kansas, 67214
Patrick.Allen@ascension.org
Samuel.Stephens@ascension.org

Hesperian Foundation: A source of very well-regarded books focused on primary health care delivery by community health workers. Many physicians and health care professionals use these manuals in a variety of community-oriented health activities and in teaching.

Consortium of Universities for Global Health: A great resource for general and focused modules on global health topics, including preparation for global health service.

World Health Organization (WHO): WHO documents have set the standard of care at the community health center level in many developing countries and provide useful insight into practice in resource-constrained settings; many are written for nurses or paramedical health care providers.