Global Health & Equity Office

Founded in 2021, the Emory School of Medicine Global Health & Equity Office (GLOBE) aims to improve the health of people who are medically under served worldwide through faculty, staff and trainee involvement in sustainable and equitable global health education, research and clinical care partnerships.

In the field Annual Emory Haiti Alliance Surgery Trip Photograph by medical student Danielle DePalo

Emory scrub techs improvise to create vessel loops from Penrose drains while in the background a team of Emory and Haitian general surgeons, oromaxillofacial surgeons, and anesthesiologists collaborate to save the life of a trauma patient. The patient required a surgical airway and neck exploration for a dissected artery, and he was rushed to the operating room of Hospital Bienfaisance in Pignon, in the rural Haitian Central Highlands. This area is the poorest and most medically underserved region of Haiti, the site of the annual Emory Haiti Alliance Surgery trip.

Strategic Priorities

Develop guiding principles and best practices for global health engagement and partnerships that emphasize equity and social justice.
Foster faculty, staff and trainee global health engagement across departments and disciplines.
Develop and support innovative global health education for residents, fellows and students.
Catalyze interdisciplinary global health research collaborations.
Provide global health faculty development opportunities.
Promote collaborative relationships with partner institutions to support global health capacity building.

About Us Leadership

Brittany Murray Director

Saiza Jivani Sr. Program Coordinator

Anna Yaffee GLOBE Education Director

Philip Shayne GME Leadership

Jianli Zhao GME Leadership

Marilane Bond GME Leadership

Advisory Board

Henry Blumberg Medicine

Jeff Koplan Emory Global Health Institute

Rebecca Martin Vice President for Global Health

Jacquelyn O'Banion Ophthalmology

Steve Roser Surgery

Parminder Suchdev Pediatrics; Division of Global Health Protection, CDC

Maria Aaron Ophthalmology

Global Health Education

Global Health Overview by Education and Engagement Track

The GLOBE curriculum is a 2-year comprehensive, multidisciplinary curriculum on global health themes, launched in 2021. It brings together residents and fellows from across the institution to discuss global health topics, and then work together on a project to address a global health challenge.

Clinical Perspectives in Global Health Course

Launched in 2017 by the School of Medicine and Emory Global Health Institute under the leadership of Dr. Parmi Suchdev, the Clinical Perspectives in Global Health elective aims to introduce concepts of global health to interprofessional students during their pre-clinical years through didactic sessions, skills workshops, and relevant clinical experiences. The course currently includes second-year medical students, nursing students, and senior Emory undergraduates minoring in global health.

Global Health Residency Scholars Program

The Emory University School of Medicine Emory Global Health Residency Scholars Program (GHRSP), established in 2012, includes a year-long curriculum consisting of monthly lectures, seminars, and discussions, and a one-month clinical education and teaching rotation in Ethiopia. The program aims to provide residents and fellows from clinical departments with knowledge and practical experience in global health by building on the ongoing collaborations between Emory and Ethiopian institutions, in particular Addis Ababa University (AAU) and its main teaching hospital, Black Lion Hospital. Rotations in Ethiopia are structured to provide Emory residents and fellows with learning opportunities as well as opportunities to "give back" and provide education and teaching to residents, medical students and other trainees at AAU. To culminate the program, Emory Global Health Residency Scholars make short presentations about their work and experiences.

View GHRSP Call for Applications for the academic year 2024-25

Departmental Global Health Resources

Several Emory School of Medicine Departments have impactful global health initiatives in medical education, research, and clinical outreach for faculty, residents, and fellows.

Global Health Office of Pediatrics (GHOPE)

Global Ophthalmology Emory

Global Health Radiology Initiative

Global Health in Emergency Medicine Section (GHEMS)

Anesthesiology Global Health Initiatives

Internal Medicine Global Health Distinction Program

Family and Preventive Medicine Global Health Research Program

Department of Surgery Global Surgery Program & Emory Global Perioperative Health Alliance

Psychiatry Global and Population Health Track

History

Atlanta is a global health crossroads for the world, home to the CDC, Task Force for Global Health, Carter Center, CARE International, as well as Emory University and its academic partners. Global health is a strategic priority at Emory, and the Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI), founded in 2006 as part of the University’s strategic plan to develop a strong academic infrastructure in global health, has led the establishment of numerous successful education and research programs.

In partnership with EGHI and Department Chairs, a global health strategic plan was developed for the School of Medicine (SOM) in 2011. Global health activities in the SOM include clinical outreach, research partnerships, and global health training/education. These initiatives are supported through Departmental budgets, philanthropic gifts, grants, and in-kind contributions from motivated faculty. Amplified investments in global health that prioritize racial, gender, and health equity; reciprocal and bidirectional partnerships; evidence-based decision making; and effective health communication are needed for an improved post-pandemic world.

In 2020, EGHI convened a GH@SOM working group composed of 27 faculty, trainees and staff across the SOM who developed a proposal to establish a centralized global health office in the SOM and implement a coordinated strategy for global health for Emory Medicine. The Emory SOM Global Health Office was launched in September 2021.

Global Health Faculty Quick Stats

20 Departments

Global health faculty work across 20 of 27 School of Medicine departments

181 Faculty

Working in the School of Medicine focused on global health research, education, or clinical care

780 Publications

Total number of publications authored by School of Medicine global health faculty to date

$17.2 Million

Total external and internal funding supporting work in global health

Meet Global Health Faculty

Meet a few of the long list of School of Medicine faculty focused on global health and research. They're experienced clinicians passionate about improving the lives of their patients and providing care that cuts across socioeconomic lines and international borders. They're working to change the way medicine is practiced around the world by teaching the next generation of physicians to be bold, compassionate leaders.

Making News in Global Health

COVID-19 offers lessons to improve vaccine equity in Global South Jan. 30, 2024

Led by Emory's Rebecca Martin, an analysis of public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic revealed inequities in access, price, delivery and uptake of vaccines. Health leaders must improve access to and pathways for delivery of vaccines before a future pandemic.

Emory researchers test interventions to limit dangerous household air pollution Jan. 25, 2024

Household air pollution, caused in part by people cooking using open fires or inefficient stoves, is responsible for an estimated 3.2 million deaths per year. Emory University researchers conducted a multi-country study to assess the health effects of cooking with liquefied petroleum gas instead of harmful traditional biomass fuels such as wood, charcoal, and dung.

Emory faculty members elected to prestigious medical honor society Jan. 11, 2024

Three Emory faculty members have been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, one of the nation’s oldest and most respected medical honor societies for physician-scientists.