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UMN School of Public Health
UMN School of Public Health
About
Faculty, students and staff at the School of Public Health are actively engaged in global health activities through research, education, and service. The School of Public Health contributes to the University of Minnesota goal to address global grand challenges by bringing partners together to advance the health of populations worldwide.
Faculty conduct interdisciplinary and collaborative work with academic institutions and community-based groups around the globe. Education activities are grounded on the principles of inter-professional development and cross-cultural studies. The Global Health Minor and the Certificate in Global Public Health offer courses that prepare students to be actors and players in diverse global health settings. Through research and education, we are engaged in the larger purpose of co-creating and sharing knowledge with our partners and collaborators, and finding new approaches to address global health needs.
Principles
Principles
We are committed to developing, supporting, and maintaining opportunities for members and affiliates to engage in meaningful global health and wellness work.
We foster partnerships to undertake research that can translate into improvements in health and wellness in diverse communities.
We support initiatives that promote cultural awareness, cultural humility, health equity, and well-being in our increasingly interconnected world.
What is Global Health?
What is Global Health?
Global health work strives to make meaningful progress toward health equity and improving the health of everyone around the world. Global health work, even within the public health sphere, can take on multiple forms whether that be through research, programs, collaborations, or a combination of these. Global health encompasses factors outside of individual healthcare.
Global health work is also done using aspects of the Social Determinants of Health and the One Health model. Much of this work involves partnerships between institutions and organizations in different countries or with institutions that work on an international scale to address health issues of global importance. Global health work is also done in local environments, working on projects that have a global impact.
In practice, global health work many strive to ensure a strong understanding of and connection to the communities they are working with and to keep cultural humility in the center of their work. Above all, global health brings people and resources together all around the world to make impactful and sustainable changes to the health of all.
History
History
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