Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted all aspects of life globally and laid bare the pervasive inequities in access to education, employment, healthcare and economic security in both high-resource and low-resource settings. The global health field’s brittle attempts of addressing global health inequities,...
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| author | Anna Pancheshnikov C Nicholas Cuneo Wilfredo R Matias Rebeca Cázares-Adame Abner Gamaliel Santos López Ryan M Paxton Chi Chiung Grace Chen |
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| description | The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted all aspects of life globally and laid bare the pervasive inequities in access to education, employment, healthcare and economic security in both high-resource and low-resource settings. The global health field’s brittle attempts of addressing global health inequities, through efforts that in some cases have evoked the colonialist forces implicated in shaping these disparities, have been further challenged by the pandemic. COVID-19 has forced global health leaders to reimagine their field through innovation such as shifting the application of global health to a local focus, collaborating with community organisations and exploring virtual education technologies. We present four case studies illustrating this promising movement towards a more sustainable, ethical and equitable model of global health education practice.Case 1: trainees from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health partnered with the Board of Health of Holyoke, a majority Latinx city with high poverty levels, to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through research and intervention. Case 2: Prevencasa, a community health organisation in Tijuana, Mexico, providing healthcare to local underserved communities, shifted its focus from hosting international trainees to developing a multidisciplinary training programme for Mexican healthcare professionals. Case 3: the Johns Hopkins Global Health Leadership Program adapted its curriculum into a hybrid online and in-person migrant health and human rights elective, collaborating with local organisations. Case 4: a US-based and a Latin American-based organisation collaborated to create a longitudinal, virtual urogynaecology training programme with hybrid simulation practice to increase accessibility of procedural-based training. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8f191e5a34da4c1f9b3d8c3311171ded2025-02-01T09:15:11ZengBMJ Publishing GroupBMJ Global Health2059-79082023-04-018410.1136/bmjgh-2023-011682Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyondAnna Pancheshnikov0C Nicholas Cuneo1Wilfredo R Matias2Rebeca Cázares-Adame3Abner Gamaliel Santos López4Ryan M Paxton5Chi Chiung Grace Chen6Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA3 Departments of Pediatrics and Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USADivision of Infectious Diseases and Center for Global Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USAPrimary Care Physician and Medical Coordinator, Prevencasa, AC, Tijuana, MexicoDivision of Urogynecology, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hospital Centro Médico de Guatemala, Guatemala City, GuatemalaHealth Inspector, Holyoke Board of Health, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USAJohns Hopkins Medical Institutions Campus, Baltimore, Maryland, USAThe COVID-19 pandemic disrupted all aspects of life globally and laid bare the pervasive inequities in access to education, employment, healthcare and economic security in both high-resource and low-resource settings. The global health field’s brittle attempts of addressing global health inequities, through efforts that in some cases have evoked the colonialist forces implicated in shaping these disparities, have been further challenged by the pandemic. COVID-19 has forced global health leaders to reimagine their field through innovation such as shifting the application of global health to a local focus, collaborating with community organisations and exploring virtual education technologies. We present four case studies illustrating this promising movement towards a more sustainable, ethical and equitable model of global health education practice.Case 1: trainees from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health partnered with the Board of Health of Holyoke, a majority Latinx city with high poverty levels, to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic through research and intervention. Case 2: Prevencasa, a community health organisation in Tijuana, Mexico, providing healthcare to local underserved communities, shifted its focus from hosting international trainees to developing a multidisciplinary training programme for Mexican healthcare professionals. Case 3: the Johns Hopkins Global Health Leadership Program adapted its curriculum into a hybrid online and in-person migrant health and human rights elective, collaborating with local organisations. Case 4: a US-based and a Latin American-based organisation collaborated to create a longitudinal, virtual urogynaecology training programme with hybrid simulation practice to increase accessibility of procedural-based training.https://gh.bmj.com/content/8/4/e011682.full |
| spellingShingle | Anna Pancheshnikov C Nicholas Cuneo Wilfredo R Matias Rebeca Cázares-Adame Abner Gamaliel Santos López Ryan M Paxton Chi Chiung Grace Chen Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond BMJ Global Health |
| title | Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond |
| title_full | Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond |
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| title_short | Case studies in adaptation: centring equity in global health education during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond |
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