Curriculum and Resources (Medical, Nursing and Dental Students)

Listed here are different courses offered at OHSU around global health issues. In addition you will find lists of resources for personal education on global health as well as curriculum development resources. There is also a list of potential future ideas for course offerings.

Pilot Course Descriptions
Past Course Descriptions
Curriculum Development Tools
Personal Education
Future Curriculum Ideas

Pilot Course Descriptions

Physician Training in Global Health (PTGH)
Thursday October 2 - December 12, 2008
Contact Andy Harris, MD andyharrismd@comcast.net or Amy Marr, MD marra@ohsu.edu

Physician Training in Global Health (PTGH) will offer a pilot project for six physicians in the fall of 2008. This new program is for physicians with an active Oregon medical license who are interested in training for volunteer medical work in developing countries, including disaster relief.

PTGH will [1] update physicians' clinical skills in primary care (adult medicine, emergency medicine and pediatrics), and [2] provide courses in public health, infectious disease, tropical medicine and related fields pertinent to overseas work.

The program will be given at OHSU with clinical rotations at free medical clinics in the Portland metropolitan area. The training will be intensive, Wednesday evenings and all day Thursdays and Fridays, for ten weeks from October 1 to December 12 (excluding the week of Thanksgiving). A Certificate of Global Health and approximately 90 CME credits will be awarded by OHSU upon completion of the training.

Global Health in Changing Environments:
Part I: Understanding the Issues, February 13-March 19, 2008
Part II: Developing Solutions, April 3-May 8, 2008
Course Summary and Objectives

As the world becomes an increasingly global community, there is a need for new, integrated, and multidimensional approaches to Global Health. As the foundation of OHSU’s Global Health curriculum, Global Health in Changing Environments (GHCE) will provide students from across the health and life sciences with an introduction to the diverse knowledge- and skill-sets that they will need as future leaders in global health. To do so, this pilot elective for Winter and Spring 2008 has been organized around the following strategic objectives:

1. Promoting transdisciplinary thinking and collaboration. GHCE will bring students from each of OSHU’s graduate programs together with a team of expert faculty from across the physical, clinical, and social sciences. A combination of interactive presentations and small group discussion will provide a range of opportunities for interaction.
2. Improving students’ understanding of a range of key global health issues. Presentations and readings will demonstrate the ways in which patterns of health, illness and injury are shaped by the dynamic confluence of multiple environmental, sociocultural, and political-economic forces. The use of comparative case studies will help to illustrate these processes while the adoption of a syndemic perspective will facilitate their analysis.
3. Challenging students to think critically and constructively about global health issues. In both its structure and content, GHCE will encourage students to develop an increasingly nuanced understanding of global health issues and to seek out opportunities to leverage this understanding to improve health.

GHCE is comprised of two independent electives, each composed of six two-hour class sessions. Each session will include opportunities to explore that week’s themes through readings, lectures, and small-group discussions. The first elective, subtitled Understanding the Issues, is designed to provide students with a solid theoretical framework and problem-oriented knowledge base from which to develop informed, actionable strategies aimed at addressing key issues in global health. The second elective, subtitled Developing Solutions, serves as an introduction to health care infrastructures and systems of practice that is designed to encourage students to think critically about current approaches to global health work and challenge them to envision viable alternatives.

At the conclusion of the 2008 spring semester, the electives will undergo a post-hoc joint assessment by the Global Health Center and Global Health Alliance to aid the design of a future trans-professional baseline course in global health in accord with the OHSU 2020 Strategic Plan and the OHSU application for a NIH Fogarty Framework for Global Health grant (Spencer PS, PI).

Past Course Descriptions

Survey of Disaster Relief
Coordinator: Andy Harris, MD (andyharrismd@comcast.net)
Download the course description here: Survey of Disaster Relief Course

The course is an introduction to disaster relief, discussing the complexity, challenges and opportunities for providing medical care in both international and domestic disaster settings. The specific topics for each night include:

1. NGO disaster relief agencies: who they are and how they function;
2. Public health and environmental concerns;
3. Political interactions of disaster relief;
4. Personal experience on disaster relief teams.

Speakers for each night include respresentatives from groups such as Northwest Medical Teams, Mercy Corps, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and International Red Cross.

International/Global Health Epidemiology
Instructor: Jay Kravitz, MD, MPH (kravitzj@ohsu.edu)

Dr. Kravitz has extensive experience in international health and has been teaching a global health course at OHSU for over 10 years. This course provides students with the challenge of applying epidemiologic principles to problems and disease in developing nations and in refugee situations. Guest instructors will present necessary facts regarding each health problem or illness, including data which students will analyze epidemiologically with the purpose of developing methods of control.

Topics in Global Health:
Instructor: Jay Kravitz, MD, MPH (kravitzj@ohsu.edu)

This course explores clinical, population-based, and public health theory and issues from an international perspective. The goal of the course is to prepare medical and nursing students interested in health problems and diseases in developing countries to consider the challenge of clinical and/or public health electives or vocational opportunities in international settings. The student will appreciate the interrelationships of disease, overpopulation, society, politics, economics, and the environment and how the lives and health of people living in the developing world are impacted. Two hours per week for 9 weeks.

Online Curriculum Development Tools

Framework for an Interdisciplinary Modular Curriculum on Global Health
A good Global Health Education Consortium's resource for global health course development

Developing Global Health Curricula - A Guidebook for US Medical Schools
Download this .pdf file from the list of resources on this GHEC site

OHSU Global Health Curriculum Proposal (.ppt)
A proposal for global health curriculum development produced by members of the GHA and proposed to the OHSU School of Medicine Curriculum Committee. Download is a powerpoint with background and specific development proposal.

GHEC Course Modules Project
This resource put out by GHEC is a collaborative effort to increase the quality of global health education through provision of a framework for a number of topics in global health. The topics include:

• Global Health: The Basics
• Cardiovascular Disease in the Developing World
• Urbanization and Health in the Developing World
• Microbicides

Personal Education

Johns Hopkins Online Courses
Global Health Education Consortium Resources
Columbia Lecture Series
Institute of Medicine
Global Health at Oregon Health & Science University
Supercourse Global Health Lectures
Achieving Equity
Center for Global Development Resources

Johns Hopkins Courses
Below are a list of free online courses offered by the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. These free courses are a great resource for independent learners with lecture notes and great reading lists.

Refugee Health
Course Objectives:
After completion of this course, you will be able to do the following:

• Accurately assess the true needs and resources of populations displaced by natural or man-made disasters.
• Apply epidemiological information toward designing and monitoring relief activities, such as water and sanitation, food and nutrition, disease surveillance and control, immunization, and health services.
• Understand the importance of other issues surrounding displaced persons, such as the international humanitarian law and human rights laws, protection of women and other vulnerable groups, psychosocial and mental health needs, and long-term solutions for refugees and displaced persons.
• Recognize the value of collaborating with different players in the humanitarian field, including the affected community, local, and international organizations, host governments, the United Nations, military forces, and the media.

Tropical Environmental Health
Course Description:
Inadequate water supplies and lack of sanitation facilities represent major hazards to the public health in many parts of the world. In spite of the International Water Supply Decade, (1980-1990) there are more people without facilities approaching minimum standards now than existed at the beginning of the program. Without improvements in these areas, there can be no hope that there will be an overall improvement in the health of the nations which constitute the Third World. Yet appropriate technologies do exist which can go a long way to ameliorate these problems. Simple, low cost projects can be built and maintained by village-based methods. These are being used in some countries and provide a basis for the improvement of living standards for the poorer people of the world. This is a practical course designed to demonstrate actual details of construction and provide a working knowledge of simple mechanisms involved in ventilating latrines and also on how simple pumps work. You should end with a good idea about how these tings work and how they can be maintained.

Water and Sanitation Needs in Complex Humanitarian Emergencies
Course Description:
Presents a historical overview of the influence of water and sanitation on human health; types of water and sanitation facilities and equipment presently available and particularly suited to refugee populations displaced by war, famine, drought, and economic turmoil; and methodologies for assessing and quantifying water and sanitation needs.

Malariology
Course Description:
Presents issues related to malaria as a major public health problem. Emphasizes the biology of malaria parasites and factors affecting their transmission to humans by anopheline vectors. Topics include host-parasite-vector relationships; diagnostics; parasite biology; vector biology; epidemiology; host immunity; risk factors associated with infection, human behavior, chemotherapy, and drug resistances; anti-vector measures; vaccine development; and management and policy issues.

International Nutrition
Course Description:
Presents major nutritional problems that influence the health, survival, and developmental capacity of populations in developing societies. Covers approaches implemented at the household, community, national, and international levels to improve nutritional status. Explores the degree to which malnutrition can be prevented or reduced prior to achieving full economic development through targeted public and private sector interventions that address the causes of malnutrition.

Pandemic Influenza
Course Description:
This training examines the path of the avian influenza and examines how it could impact world health.

Global Tobacco Control
Course Description:
Provides an introduction to global tobacco control. Presents the health and economic burden of tobacco use worldwide and highlights practical approaches to tobacco prevention, control, surveillance, and evaluation. Examines transnational tobacco control issues, including the following: the interpretation and packaging of epidemiologic evidence for policy makers, the determinants of tobacco addiction, the economics of global tobacco control, tobacco industry strategies, legal foundations for regulation, and basic surveillance and evaluation methods using lectures, case-studies, and discussion.

Archived Recorded Grand Rounds
Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education

Global Health Education Consortium Resources
GHEC Global Health Bibliography
This resource put out by the Global Health Education Consortium has a topical listing of good, peer-reviewed papers related to global health issues. Sample topics include:

• Child Heath, Growth and Development
• Nutrition, Nutritional Disorders & Food Security
• Communicable and Tropical Disease
• Economics, Poverty and Health
• Research Methods, Evaluation, Survey Design
• Ethical and Equity Issues

Columbia University's Global Health Seminar Series:
Below are a series of online lectures put on by the Columbia University Medical School on global health issues - interesting with good speakers. Some are only online videos while others have downloadable powerpoints.

• Emergency Public Health & Medical Response in Aceh, Indonesia
  Ronald J. Waldman, M.D., M.P.H. and Rachel T. Moresky, M.D., M.P.H.
• Globalizing Science Harold Varmus, M.D.
• The First Millennium Village Project: Validation of Millennium Development Goals Richard J. Deckelbaum, M.D.

Institute of Medicine Section on Global Health
Global Health section of IoM Homepage
Report on Global Health: America's Vital Interest in Global Health

Global Health: Interdisciplinary Topics
Coordinator: Isabelle Soule (soulei@ohsu.edu)
Coordinator: Jay Kravitz (kravitz@ohsu.edu)
Coordinator: Toni Eigner-Barry (eignert@ohsu.edu)

Download the course description here: Global Health: Interdisciplinary Topics Course

Course Goal: The goal of this course is to encourage dialogue about issues related to health and diseases within our diverse global village with presentations by various disciplines that contribute to the health care model. A wide range of topics will help prepare OHSU students studying in our various educational programs to work in clinical and/or public health settings in developing countries.

Course Objectives:
To stimulate and enhance students' abilities to assess the health status of people living in developing countries and to work effectively to address their needs by:

1. Describing leading causes of morbidity and mortality in developing nations by focusing on selected diseases and population-based intervention strategies;
2. Gaining awareness of one's values and attitudes that can either enhance or inhibit a successful working environment where multiple dimensions and cultural differences exist;
3. Distinguishing construct interrelationships impacting health and the development of disease: population, history, politics, culture, economics, social factors, nutrition, and environment;
4. Defining difficulties encountered by health professionals in managing large migrations of people, as a consequence of war or famine, which are associated with increased disease incidence and high rates of mortality;
5. Describing oral health conditions in developing countries and efforts to treat and prevent dental disease;
6. Describing various ways in which dentists can volunteer their services in developing countries and the logistics involved;

Course Credit: 1 Credit Hour. An elective for all OHSU students with an interest in global health.

Supercourse website lectures on global health:
Supercourse is a global repository of lectures on public health and prevention targeting educators across the world. Supercourse has a network of over 41300 scientists in 171 countries who are sharing for free a library of over 3124 lectures in 26 languages. It's a bit hit or miss on which lectures are good vs. just ok and you have to sort through quite a few to find what you want, but overall, it's a great resource
link to: Supercourse Global Health Lectures Menu

Achieving Equity Sites
Equity Gauge website
Global Equity Gauge Alliance website
For those interested in how to actually affect equity in health, these are a couple of good websites to check out.
description:
An Equity Gauge actively monitors and addresses inequity in health and health care. Rather than simply describing or passively monitoring selected indicators, the Gauge seeks to develop a set of concrete actions. These actions are designed to lead to real and sustained change in moving towards equity. Since many of these indicators and actions cut across many different sectors, it is not a typical health research project and is not limited to actions in the public health domain.

Center for Global Development
Also, for those who just have lots of time to read evidence-based reports, the Center for Global Development has a number of excellent reports on topics varying from economics to human rights that revolve around global health and development.

Future Course Ideas

Below is a brief listing of courses in development or ideas others have had in the past. If you have ideas for topics you would like to see presented and discussed around global health, please send an email to gha@ohsu.edu or email the specific people listed beside each topic.

Potential Topics

• Tropical Diseases: email Jenifer Compton and Chris Lowe
• Ethics of Global Health: email Christian Molstrom
• Women's Issues in Global Health
• Global Environmental Health
• Pediatric Global Health
• Understanding Economic Development
• Immigrant and Refugee Health

Resources

Medical Students
Student Resources for International Research and Clinical Work
OHSU Global Health Alliance and Global Health Center
October 18, 2007

1. How do I find a project or opportunity? Medical Students
Factors to consider:
Local vs. International (remember global includes Oregon)
Research vs. Clinical Experience vs. Language Training vs. Traveling for Fun
OHSU Projects
If you have an idea and want help connecting to OHSU faculty:
Cate Bishop – OHSU Global Health Center
Dr. Jay Kravitz
For descriptions of other student projects see www.ohsu.edu/gha.
National Compilations of Opportunities
The International Healthcare Opportunities Clearinghouse (IHOC) at the University of Massachusetts.
URL: http://library.umassmed.edu/ihoc/index.cfm  

Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC)
http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/GHEC/Resources/GHonline.htm

American Medical Student Association (AMSA) – Database includes nursing, dental, and MPH opportunities.
http://www.amsa.org/global

Tulane clinical rotations open to 4 th year students from US medical schools
http://www.som.tulane.edu/departments/StudentAffairs/INTHEALTH.HTM

2. When is the best time to go? Medical Students
week summer between 1st and 2nd year
*Note that some clinical experiences may only be available to 3rd and 4th year students.
4 week elective block in Nov/Dec of 3rd year
Multiple elective options 4th year
Consider taking one year away from medical curriculum for research.

3. Can I get funding to help with the cost?
Local Resources – Apply for OHSU-based funds! These are very competitive, but you don’t have to compete with the whole country.
OHSU School of Medicine Granted and Endowed Funds (Includes Bacon and Hills)
Eligibility: Medical students
Award: $2000-$2500. Anticipate 10-12 awards for 2008.
Length: See application
Type of Work: Research or clinical experiences locally or abroad.
To Apply: Combined application for various funds will be announced by email in early December, 2007. Applications will be due in early February, 2008.

Tartar Trust –
Eligibility: School of Medicine affiliated medical and graduate students. Applicants must be OR residents.
Award: $2000. Of the 45 awards made in 2007, 5 went to medical students.
Length: Varies
Type of Work: Research locally or abroad.
To Apply: Application deadline typically mid-February. http://ozone.ohsu.edu/research/rda/funding/docs/internalgrants.pdf

OSLER research program –
Short term and Long term awards
Eligibility: MD, DMD, PhD, and PharmD students.
Award: Short $4327 plus benefits, $462 research support. 6 awards made in 2007.
Long $20,772 NIH stipend, $2200 research support, Tuition for Masters degree. 4 in 2007.
Length: Short 10-12 weeks full-time research
Long 12 months full-time research
Type of Work: Research locally or abroad.
To Apply: Application deadline typically late January. http://www.ohsu.edu/academic/dmice/hip/osler.shtml

Additional opportunities at Office of Student Affairs –
http://www.ohsu.edu/ohsuedu/academic/som/MD/research.cfm

National Resources – There are many programs to fund medical student work. Try looking for the professional society for the specialty of your project.

Good compilations – American Medical Student Association (AMSA) –
http://www.amsa.org/global/ih/  

University of Washington - Sources of Funding for Doing International Health Work
  -http://depts.washington.edu/ihg/funding.htm

Selected Individual Programs – See more description at www.ohsu.edu/gha.
Benjamin H. Kean Traveling Fellowship in Tropical Medicine
Airfare + $700 to medical students for research or clinical electives in tropical countries
http://www.astmh.org/funding/kean.cfm

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Hubert Fellowships
One to three month research projects for MS3 and MS4 in developing countries.
http://www.cdcfoundation.org/fellowships/ochubert/index.aspx
Child Family Health International
Offers full and partial scholarships for selected experiences in non-summer months
http://www.cfhi.org/scholarships.php4

Global Health Education Consortium
Carole M. Davis Scholarship is $500 for global health projects
http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/GHEC/Resources/CaroleDavis.htm

Infectious Disease Society of America Summer Scholarships
Medical student research in ID internationally or in US can get $2000.
http://www.idsociety.org under Education and Training

Wilderness Medical Society Houston Awards
Medical student research in wilderness or environmental medicine can get $1500.
Phone: 317-631-1745

**Fogarty International Center/Ellison Medical Foundation Awards
**Year-long research projects at 18 sites around the world
http://www.fic.nih.gov/programs/training_grants/nih_fogarty.htm

Travelers’ Health
Immunizations and Prophylaxis
See your healthcare provider at least 4-6 weeks prior to departure to allow time
for immunizations and anti-malarial medications to be effective. Review the recommended immunizations and other health warnings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx
Immunizations can be expensive. Include these items in your budget.

Insurance
It is strongly recommended (and required for SoM grantees) that you travel with insurance that covers at least medical evacuation and repatriation. Check with your insurance provider about these provisions. Additional providers are:
International SOS - http://www.internationalsos.com
Student Travel Advantage - http://www.statravel.com (Under ‘Plan your trip’)

General Recommendations
Stay Informed! – Funding and program opportunities are sent to these lists:
OHSU Global Health Alliance – Email gha@ohsu.edu
American Medical Student Association Global List – Sign up for listserv at
http://www.amsa.org/global.

Check out these guides
Global Health Education Consortium – ‘Planning Your Global Health Elective’
http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/GHEC/Home/Modules.htm

AMSA Going Abroad Toolkit - http://www.amsa.org/global/ih/

Nursing Students
Student Resources for International Research and Clinical Work
OHSU Global Health Alliance and Global Health Center
October 18, 2007

1. How do I find a project or opportunity? Nursing Students

Factors to consider:
Local vs. International (remember global includes Oregon)
Research vs. Clinical Experience vs. Language Training vs. Traveling for Fun

OHSU Projects
If you have an idea and want help connecting to OHSU faculty:
Cate Bishop – OHSU Global Health Center
Isabelle Soule – School of Nursing
John Jessup – School of Nursing

School of Nursing International Educational Experiences
The school has previously organized international electives.
The electives are not currently offered.

Local Global Health SoN Experiences Include:
Asian Health and Service Center
Africa House
Hacienda CDC
Please contact Prof. Isabelle Soule for more information.
For descriptions of other student projects see www.ohsu.edu/gha.

National Sources of Opportunities

National Compilations of Opportunities
The International Healthcare Opportunities Clearinghouse (IHOC) at the University of Massachusetts.
URL: http://library.umassmed.edu/ihoc/index.cfm  

Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC)
http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/GHEC/Resources/GHonline.htm

American Medical Student Association (AMSA) – Database includes nursing, dental, and MPH opportunities.
http://www.amsa.org/global

Can I get funding to help with the cost?

Local Resources
OSLER research program – Short term and Long term awards
Eligibility: MD, DMD, PhD, and PharmD students.
Award: Short $4327 plus benefits, $462 research support. 6 awards made in 2007.
Long $20,772 NIH stipend, $2200 research support, Tuition for Masters degree. 4 in 2007.
Length: Short 10-12 weeks full-time research
Long 12 months full-time research
Type of Work: Research locally or abroad.
To Apply: Application deadline typically late January. http://www.ohsu.edu/academic/dmice/hip/osler.shtml

Selected Individual Programs – See full descriptions at www.ohsu.edu/gha.

Child Family Health International
Offers full and partial scholarships for selected experiences in non-summer months
http://www.cfhi.org/scholarships.php4

Global Health Education Consortium

Carole M. Davis Scholarship is $500 for global health projects
http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/GHEC/Resources/CaroleDavis.htm

Travelers’ Health

Immunizations and Prophylaxis
See your healthcare provider at least 4-6 weeks prior to departure to allow time for immunizations and anti-malarial medications to be effective. Review the recommended immunizations and other health warnings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx

Insurance

It is strongly recommended (and required for SoM grantees) that you travel with insurance that covers at least medical evacuation and repatriation. Check with your insurance provider about these provisions. Additional providers are:
International SOS - http://www.internationalsos.com
Student Travel Advantage - http://www.statravel.com (Under ‘Plan your trip’)

General Recommendations
Stay Informed! – Funding and program opportunities are sent to these lists:
OHSU Global Health Alliance – Email gha@ohsu.edu
American Medical Student Association Global List – Sign up for listserv at
http://www.amsa.org/global.

Check out these guides.

Global Health Education Consortium – ‘Planning Your Global Health Elective’
http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/GHEC/Home/Modules.htm

AMSA Going Abroad Toolkit - http://www.amsa.org/global/ih/

Dental Students
Student Resources for International Research and Clinical Work
OHSU Global Health Alliance and Global Health Center
October 18, 2007

1. How do I find a project or opportunity? Dental Students

Factors to consider:
Local vs. International (remember global includes Oregon)
Research vs. Clinical Experience vs. Language Training vs. Traveling for Fun

OHSU Projects
If you have an idea and want help connecting to OHSU faculty:
Cate Bishop – OHSU Global Health Center
Dr. Mike Plunkett
Dr. Prashant Gagneja*

*Dr. Ganeja will be leading a multidisciplinary team from OHSU to lead a children’s dental and medical camp in Faridkot, India in March 2008. Please see upcoming GHA email update for more information.

For descriptions of other student projects see www.ohsu.edu/gha.

National Compilations of Opportunities

The International Healthcare Opportunities Clearinghouse (IHOC) at the University of Massachusetts.
URL: http://library.umassmed.edu/ihoc/index.cfm  

Global Health Education Consortium (GHEC)
http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/GHEC/Resources/GHonline.htm

American Medical Student Association (AMSA) – Database includes nursing, dental, and MPH opportunities.
http://www.amsa.org/global

2. When is the best time to go? Dental Students
6 week break mid-August through September

3. Can I get funding to help with the cost?

Local Resources – Apply for OHSU-based funds! These are very competitive, but you don’t have to compete with the whole country.

OSLER research program – Short term and Long term awards
Eligibility: MD, DMD, PhD, and PharmD students.
Award: Short $4327 plus benefits, $462 research support. 6 awards made in 2007.
Long $20,772 NIH stipend, $2200 research support, Tuition for Masters degree. 4 in 2007.
Length: Short 10-12 weeks full-time research
Long 12 months full-time research
Type of Work: Research locally or abroad.
To Apply: Application deadline typically late January. http://www.ohsu.edu/academic/dmice/hip/osler.shtml

Selected Individual Programs – See more description at www.ohsu.edu/gha.

Child Family Health International
Offers full and partial scholarships for selected experiences in non-summer months http://www.cfhi.org/scholarships.php4

Global Health Education Consortium
Carole M. Davis Scholarship is $500 for global health projects
http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/GHEC/Resources/CaroleDavis.htm

Travelers’ Health

Immunizations and Prophylaxis
See your healthcare provider at least 4-6 weeks prior to departure to allow time
for immunizations and anti-malarial medications to be effective. Review the recommended immunizations and other health warnings at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website.
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/default.aspx

Insurance
It is strongly recommended (and required for SoM grantees) that you travel with insurance that covers at least medical evacuation and repatriation. Check with your insurance provider about these provisions. Additional providers are:
International SOS - http://www.internationalsos.com
Student Travel Advantage - http://www.statravel.com (Under ‘Plan your trip’)

General Recommendations
Stay Informed! – Funding and program opportunities are sent to these lists:

OHSU Global Health Alliance – Email gha@ohsu.edu

American Medical Student Association Global List – Sign up for listserv at
http://www.amsa.org/global .

Check out these guides.

Global Health Education Consortium – ‘Planning Your Global Health Elective’
http://www.globalhealth-ec.org/GHEC/Home/Modules.htm

AMSA Going Abroad Toolkit - http://www.amsa.org/global/ih/