Welcome to the website of the the Global Health Learning Community of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD).
Here you will find resources developed and shared by pediatric educators charged with preparing residents for work in and for patients from low and middle income countries. We work together, sharing best practices and resources, to advance the science and implementation of global health education for pediatric trainees to better prepare them to serve children in resource-limited settings globally AND locally.
--Adelaide Barnes, MD (Chair) and Lisa Umphrey, MD (Vice-Chair)
Advance global health education and prepare pediatric trainees to better serve children in resource-limited settings locally and globally
Ensure high quality global health education in pediatric training programs
Faculty collaboration, sustainability, and equity
2025 Global Educator Scholarship Recipients:
Drs. Mercy Kumwenda (Malawi)
and Joycelyn Dame (Ghana)
Kamuzu University of Health Sciences
Lilongwe, Malawi
Nominated by: Dr. Rachel Bensman, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
Korle Bu Teaching Hospital
Accra, Ghana
Nominated by: Dr. Lee Morris, Levine Children's Hospital
2024 Global Educator Scholarship Recipients:
Drs. Tam Pham Thi Thanh (Vietnam)
and Freddie Coker (Sierra Leone)
The University of Sierra Leone's Teaching Hospitals
Freetown, Sierra Leone
Nominated by: Dr. Nicole Shilkofski, MD MEd at Johns Hopkins
VinUniversity
Hanoi, Vietnam
Nominated by: Dr. Bryn Carroll, MD at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Members of the GHLC Steering Committee and
GHLC Scholarship Nominators and Recipients
APPD GHLC Spring Meeting 2024: Chicago, Illinois, USA
2023 Global Educator Scholarship Recipient:
Dr. Renee Alce (Haiti)