title: Putting the pieces together: creating and implementing an Interprofessional Global Health Grant Program.
abstract: In 2014, the Center for Global Education Initiatives (CGEI) at the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) created an innovative Faculty and Student Interprofessional Global Health Grant Program. Under the terms of this program, a UMB faculty member can apply for up to $10,000 for an interprofessional global health project that includes at least two students from different schools. Students selected to participate in a funded project receive a grant for the travel portion of their participation. This is the first university-sponsored global health grant program in North America that conditions funding on interprofessional student participation. The program grew out of CGEI's experience creating interprofessional global health programming on a graduate campus with six schools (dentistry, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social work) and meets several critical goals identified by CGEI faculty: increased global health experiential learning opportunities, increased use of interprofessional education on campus; and support for sustainable global health programming. This case study describes the history that led to the creation of the grant program, the development and implementation process, the parameters of the grant program, and the challenges to date. The case study is designed to provide guidance to other universities that want to foster interprofessional global health on their campuses.
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland, Baltimore Center for Global Education Initiatives and University of Maryland Carey School of Law, United States. Electronic address: vrowthorn@law.umaryland.edu.
authors.forename: Virginia
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Rowthorn
authors.affiliation: University of Maryland, Baltimore Center for Global Education Initiatives and University of Maryland School of Social Work, United States.
authors.forename: Jody
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Olsen
mesh_terms: D014943:Global Health; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D016730:Program Development
keywords: Global health; IPE; Interprofessional education