title: Identifying global health competencies to prepare 21st century global health professionals: report from the global health competency subcommittee of the consortium of universities for global health.
abstract: As universities increase their focus on global health-related professional education, the need for specific competencies and outcomes to guide curriculum development is urgent. To address this need, the chair of the Education Committee of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) appointed a Subcommittee to determine if there is a need for broad global health core competencies applicable across disciplines, and if so, what those competencies should be. Based on that work, this paper (a) discusses the benefits of developing interprofessional and discipline-specific global health competencies; (b) highlights themes that emerged from a preliminary review of existing related literature; and (c) reviews the process used to identify two levels of interprofessional global health competencies.
authors.affiliation: Professor and Deputy Director of the PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center on International Nursing in the Department of Acute, Chronic, and Continuing Care at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Nursing.
authors.forename: Lynda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Wilson
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Callender
authors.forename: Thomas L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: Kristen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jogerst
authors.forename: Herica
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Torres
authors.forename: Anvar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Velji
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D011361:Professional Competence / Q000592:standards*; D014495:Universities