Meeting Changing Training Needs

Our modular training programs and workshops combine interdisciplinary academic training with community-oriented fieldwork. They underscore the strong link between global health and the health of our communities. By improving the competencies of our health professionals, we increase America’s preparedness to respond to health threats and disasters originating around the world. By putting health in a global context we also prepare them to meet the future health care needs of America’s increasingly diverse communities.

Offered as a degree program or as freestanding modules, the various training curricula integrate topics that range from public health principles to management. To put learning into action, participants engage in clinical fieldwork and health-related research projects that are developed with academic and community-based partners in immigrant communities in New York and their countries of origin.

Training is tailored to the professional needs of our partners, providing a practical framework in which students and practitioners in fields as diverse as medicine, social work, and management interact to focus on global health issues.