Resources

RESOURCES FOR GH EDUCATORS

Newest Documents for Use from the APPD Spring 2024 Meeting

Resource list (1).pdf

Considerations for immersive experiences and return

An organized way to think about considerations for GH leadership to prepare, check in, and debrief their trainees for GH electives.

GH debrief checklist (1).pdf

Global health post-return debrief tool

A checklist of best practices, actionable items, and objectives/topics to cover during debriefing with GH trainees after their elective is over.

GLOPACT 05.15.24.pdf

global partnership and collaboration tool (GLOPACT)

A tool designed by a multi-institutional team to help academic GH program leadership to initiate, establish, maintain, and reassess GH partnerships.

On this page you will find a selection of essential resources for Global Health education, including guides, articles, curricula, and trainee resources.

Comprehensive guide for GH education in pediatrics
Essential articles in GH education
Online GH curricula
Resources for GH trainees
Resources for creating a GH passport
ABP Sponsored MOC4 Credit
Links to pediatric global health fellowship programs

GHEARD (Global Health Education for Equity, Anti-Racism, and Decolonization

GHEARD is a modular curriculum for global health trainees and providers that is being published by the American Academy of Pediatrics with collaboration from the APPD GHLC and the Consortium of Universities for Global Health. It was created by a diverse, large author group with representatives across the education spectrum and around the world.

GHEARD seeks to prompt critical reflection and analysis and create important (and sometimes uncomfortable) conversations across global health training spaces around inequity, racism, systems of oppression and structural violence, and the legacies of colonialism and neo-colonialism on the field by highlighting unHEARD and under-represented voices and perspectives in global health.

The hope is that by informing and empowering global health trainees and providers about the complex history of the field, ongoing global health inequities, and critical consciousness of one’s own power and positionality, that they will be empowered to join together to work toward a more equitable, decolonized field of global health.

The ultimate goal is to center the voices of our expert colleagues in resource-constrained communities and to empower global health trainees and providers from resource-wealthy settings to work alongside their expert partners to reimagine and work toward a world where all children and their families have access to the health care and basic services they need to thrive.

Follow the link below for more:

https://www.aap.org/en/aap-global/what-we-do/programs/global-health-education-for-equity-anti-racism-and-decolonization-gheard/?srsltid=AfmBOopFKLaFMaGwh1hvedLBMlYRDK8V_VObDdDYL2ZgDokw4hNWT5gW

CLICK HERE for Zooming Global Health Strategies (from APPD 2021)

Comprehensive Guide for Global Health Education in Pediatrics

In the Summer of 2018, the American Board of Pediatrics Global Health Task Force publishing a comprehensive, practical resource for pediatric program directors to incorporate global health education into their respective training programs. This resource includes ready to use templates forms, examples of global health curricula, information on global health fellowships and careers in global health, information on partnerships and bidirectional exchanges, and much, much more.

Click Here for ABP GH Guide

Essential Articles in GH Education

In order to provide a streamlined bibliography, each spring the GHLC Steering Committee votes on articles that are essential reads for global health educators.

Also, here is a list of journals which publish global health education work.

Online Global Health Curricula

SUGAR: Free multidisciplinary, pilot-tested, pre-departure curricular resources including:
- - SUGAR (Simulation Use for Global Away Rotations): A comprehensive global health simulation curricula to help prepare learners for the emotional obstacles of working in limited-resource settings
  - PEARLS (Procedural Education for Adaptation to Resource Limited Settings): A web video series demonstrating low cost modifications to medical procedures for use in resource-limited settings
  - S-PACK (SUGAR’s Pre-Departure Activities Curricular Kit): A comprehensive pre-departure global health curriculum with facilitator training to lead modules on topics including health and safety, ethics, wellness in global health, and culture shock.

GPEDS (Global Pediatrics Education Series, 2.0): Peer-reviewed online course in global child health; available for purchase for use by all residents in a program for an annual fee

Global Child Health Education Modules Project (G-CHEMP): Web-based peer-reviewed interactive modules on several topics in GCH

Canadian Paediatric Society Global Child Health Curriculum: Four downloadable courses with training for an institutional site lead to facilitate

BU edX Global Health MOOCs—The Practitioner’s Guide to Global Health: Multidisciplinary online preparation courses that are interactive, case-based, evaluative, enable tracking for program directors, and are free of charge.
- - Part 1: The Big Picture (6-12 months in advance)
  - Part 2: Preparation and On the Ground (1-3 months in advance)
  - Part 3: Reflection (1 week prior to return)

Resources for Global Health Trainees

Textbooks

- Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine. Eddleston M, Davidson R, Brent A, Wilkinson R. 3rd Ed. 2008.
- Textbook of Global Child Health. (D. Kamat, P. Fischer.): A comprehensive reference that combines travel medicine, practicing medicine in other countries, and reviews diseases endemic in the tropics and resource-limited areas.
- Preparing for International health Experiences: A Practical Guide. Edited by Akshaya Neil Arya

Videos

Procedural Education for Adaptation to Resource Limited Settings (PEARLS): demonstration videos of procedural technique adaptations for use in resource-limited settings

Videos developed to train front-line health workers in resource-limited settings:

Downloadable Resources

- Preparation for Global Health Elective Packet
- Pocket Book of Hospital Care for Children: Guidelines for the Management of Common Illnesses with Limited Resources.
- WHO Model Formulary for Children. World Health Organization. 2010
- Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment: A manual for participants. World Health Organization. 2005.
- Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Chart Booklet. World Health Organization. 2008.

Resources for Creating a GLOBAL HEALTH Passport

The APPD GHLC has shared examples with GH educators about how to create a GH Passport for tracking and administering multiple different learning options for a given learning objective.

Click Here to Download a GH Passport Template

Click Here for a List of Available Resources for a Passport

Strategies for earning american board of pediatrics maintenance of certification (MOC) Part 4 credit for global health education quality improvement

At the Spring 2018 APPD Meeting, several members of the GHLC Steering Committee led a workshop on how to approach global health education initiatives with a quality improvement lens, and then apply for this work to earn MOC Part 4 Credit. The links below include the slides from this session, blank template forms, and completed forms using the case example.