Education
We train and inspire a new generation of global health leaders by creating meaningful global health learning opportunities for Stanford students, trainees, continuing learners, and our global community partners.
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A new initiative to promote health equity, capacity-strengthening, and unique focused learning between African medical institutions and Stanford.
We design and offer classroom-based courses in global health for Stanford undergraduates and graduate students, and our Global Health Faculty Fellows offer many other global health courses. We support Stanford students with their global health education through the Human Biology Minor sub-track in Global Health for undergraduates, and the global health track in Epidemiology for graduate students. We lead the Global Health Track for Residents and the Underserved Populations and Global Health Pathway of Distinction for the Department of Medicine, training the next generation of physicians in global health.
Explore courses designed or hosted by our center.
We’ve compiled dozens of global and planetary health courses offered each quarter at Stanford.
This interdisciplinary minor with a sub-track in Global Health introduces students to concepts, challenges, and opportunities in global health.
This concentration exposes students to the primary issues in Global Health and offers tools to begin addressing them through hands-on field research.
Stanford’s global health track residency offers customized experience working overseas and one-on-one mentorship with one or more of Stanford’s many Global Health Faculty Fellows.
We curate a list of courses across Stanford’s disciplines that pertain to the health of the planet and the people who call it home.
We offer numerous continuing learning opportunities for physicians, researchers, and trainees looking to deepen their knowledge, experience, and engagement in global health.
Mid-career physicians from African countries travel to Stanford for six weeks, gaining a skill set needed to improve health outcomes at home.
A two-day intensive seminar devoted to developing research skills applicable to global health.
Resources to support health professionals in addressing planetary health challenges in the clinic and beyond.
This course introduces some ethical issues that trainees in biomedical research and practice may face in resource-limited settings.
This annual CME activity helps prepare the International Humanitarian volunteer for delivering surgical care in low-resource settings.
PAICE Global partners with medical systems in low-resource environments to grow their knowledge and skills to transform local care delivery processes.
We offer experiential-based education opportunities, including numerous fellowships and overseas clinical rotations in Africa, Asia, South America, and Indigenous American reservations for residents, clinical trainees, and med students (pediatrics only).
A 12-month, NIH-supported, mentored training in global health research designed to address health inequities and improve population health.
For Stanford Medicine pediatric trainees, clinical medical, and MSPA students committed to improving quality of life for children around the world.
This year-long fellowship teaches physicians-in-training to use various media channels to advocate and inform on global health issues.
This 2-year fellowship supports early-career researchers in conducting mentored research on cutting-edge human & planetary health challenges.
This program annually selects residents and career physicians for six-week rotations at one of our mentored sites outside the US.
This fellowship supports residents, fellows, and faculty committed to working in overseas settings.
Access resources to support medical communication, including op-ed writing guidance.
Stanford’s Lane Medical Library offers curated research resources for Global Health and Population Health.
Stanford Surgeon Sherry Wren’s International Humanitarian Surgical Skills Course, now in its tenth year at Stanford, has equipped hundreds of surgeons and healthcare providers with the unique skills and knowledge they need to save lives in conflict zones and low-resource settings.
In the last 14 years since its creation in 2010, the course, which Wren also teaches at for the American College of Surgeons, has served an estimated 800 participants from the United States and overseas from Canada to Madagascar. Since its inception, it has become a go-to resource for surgeons and other medical professionals seeking to gain skills to help them serve patients in settings where resources are scarce.
From her time as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin investigating cancer care inequities, through her recent experiences working with migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border with the Families at the Border program, part of Stanford Medicine’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, Chavez has channeled her passion for health equity into advocacy, communication and technology initiatives. As a Global Health Media Fellow, Chavez explored how to use journalism to raise awareness and address inequities at the border.
More than 100 students from diverse backgrounds and fields of study are drawn each year to a Human and Planetary Health class exploring the connection between the health of people and the environment, part of a wave of interest in classes about sustainability. The course focuses on how to connect knowledge to action, emphasizing levers of change and various options for students to engage based on their future studies and interests.
“Stanford students understand the seriousness of the planetary health problems their generation faces. As instructors, we need to provide them insights and approaches that can help improve the situation,” said Dr. Steve Luby, director of the Human and Planetary Health Initiative at Stanford’s Doerr School of Sustainability.
