title: Identifying interprofessional global health competencies for 21st-century health professionals.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  At the 2008 inaugural meeting of the Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH), participants discussed the rapid expansion of global health programs and the lack of standardized competencies and curricula to guide these programs. In 2013, CUGH appointed a Global Health Competency Subcommittee and charged this subcommittee with identifying broad global health core competencies applicable across disciplines.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this paper is to describe the Subcommittee's work and proposed list of interprofessional global health competencies.
  
  
  METHODS
  After agreeing on a definition of global health to guide the Subcommittee's work, members conducted an extensive literature review to identify existing competencies in all fields relevant to global health. Subcommittee members initially identified 82 competencies in 12 separate domains, and proposed four different competency levels. The proposed competencies and domains were discussed during multiple conference calls, and subcommittee members voted to determine the final competencies to be included in two of the four proposed competency levels (global citizen and basic operational level - program oriented).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The final proposed list included a total of 13 competencies across 8 domains for the Global Citizen Level and 39 competencies across 11 domains for the Basic Operational Program-Oriented Level.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a need for continued debate and dialog to validate the proposed set of competencies, and a need for further research to identify best strategies for incorporating these competencies into global health educational programs. Future research should focus on implementation and evaluation of these competencies across a range of educational programs, and further delineating the competencies needed across all four proposed competency levels.
authors.affiliation: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth University, Hanover, NH.
authors.forename: Kristen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jogerst
authors.affiliation: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.
authors.forename: Brian
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Callender
authors.affiliation: National League for Nursing, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Adams
authors.affiliation: University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Evert
authors.affiliation: Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, Martinez, CA.
authors.forename: Elise
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fields
authors.affiliation: University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, CA.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Jody
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Olsen
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland at Baltimore, Baltimore, MD.
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rowthorn
authors.affiliation: Global Health Fellows Program at the Public Health Institute, Washington, DC.
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rudy
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
authors.forename: Jiabin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.affiliation: Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
authors.forename: Herica
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Torres
authors.affiliation: California Northstate University College of Medicine, Elk Grove, CA.
authors.forename: Anvar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Velji
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL. Electronic address: LyndaWilson@uab.edu.
authors.forename: Lynda L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Wilson
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003162:Competency-Based Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003479:Curriculum; D014943:Global Health; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D016730:Program Development
keywords: competencies; global health; global health education; interprofessional education