Global Health Perspectives joins the voices of those working peacefully toward fundamental changes required in our international, national, state, and local systems that would allow every single man, woman, and child to be valued, protected, and served.

“Global citizenship is a commitment to fundamental human dignity, couched in a critically reflective understanding of historic and contemporary systems of oppression, along with acknowledgment of positionality within those systems; it connects with values, reflection, and action. A critical global citizenship calls us all to humble, careful, and continuous effort to build a world that is better acknowledges every individual's basic human dignity” (Hartman & Kiely, 2014).

As global citizens we must strive for:

· community-driven learning and service

· intercultural learning and the development of cultural humility

· continuous and diverse forms of critically reflective practices

· ongoing attention to power, privilege, social responsibility, and positionality throughout your course work and beyond

· deliberate and demonstratable learning from within.

So how do we each get there? We must work at it. It is a lifelong pursuit and one that can be hard at times. Our goals at GHP are to broaden nursing students’ perspectives on the needs of communities around the world, that includes here at home in the United States.

References

Hartman, E., & Kiely, R. (2014). Pushing boundaries: Introduction to the global service-learning special section. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 21(1), 55–63. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1116547.pdf