Global Health Core Concepts
Intro to Global Health
- Intro to Anesthesia’s Role in Global Health
- What is Global Health? - Global Health Action
- Towards a common definition of global health - The Lancet
- What is global health? - Kaiser Family Foundation
- Global surgery: defining an emerging global health field - The Lancet
- Improving Equity in Health by Addressing Social Determinants - WHO
- Closing the gap in a generation: Health equity through action on social determinants of health - WHO
- False dichotomies in global health: the need for integrative thinking - The Lancet - 2016
- Host community perspectives on trainees participating in short-term experiences in global health. - Medical Education - 2016
Disease burden & Epidemiology
Injury
Oncology
Cancer Control in Low and Middle Income Countries - GHEC
The Global Burden of Cancer 2013 - IHME
Expansion of cancer care and control in countries of low and middle income: a call to action - The Lancet
Maternal and Child
- Intro to disease burden and epidemiology - Coming soon
- Intro to global disparities in pain management - Coming soon
- Regional variations in cultural perspectives on disease and dying - Coming Soon
- CDC field Epidemiology Training Modules
- Surgery and Global Health
- Surgery and Global Health Course
- Mortality Surveillance Methods
- Epidemiology: The Basic Science of Public Health
- DALYs for 188 countries, 1990–2013: quantifying the epidemiological transition
- Global Burden of Disease: Magnitudes and Measures
- Measuring the Global Burden of Disease - Murray et al
Pain
- The global burden of injury: incidence, mortality, disability-adjusted life years and time trends from the Global Burden of Disease study 2013 - IHME
- Pediatric Burn Injuries in the Developing World - GHEC
- Developing World Trauma - GHEC
- Global Orthopaedics and Burden of Musculoskeletal Injury - GHEC
- Causes of Violence and Effects on Community and Individual Health - GHEC
- Global Burden of Injuries - GHEC
- Global Occupational Health - GHEC
- Global Occupational Health Supplementary Notes - GHEC
- Disability and Rehabilitation in Developing Countries - GHEC
Globalization & Population Health
Aid & Development
- How “Development” is Done: The ABCD Approach (Course) - Unite for Sight
- Poverty and Development (Course) - Unite for Sight
- Where is Everyone - MSF
- The US Government Engagement in Global Health - Kaiser Family Foundation
Economics
- Snapshot of US Global Health Funding - Kaiser Family Foundation
- Interactions: Health and Wealth - GHEC
- Microfinance, Microcredit, and Health - GHEC
- Financing Global Health 2014: Shifts in Funding as the MDG Era Closes - IHME
Health Systems
- Redefining global health-care delivery - The Lancet 2013
- Health Systems Resources and Resource Constraints - GHEC
- Introduction to Comparative Health Care Systems - GHEC
- The Science of Global Health Delivery - Unite for Sight
- Human Resources for Health – A Worldwide Crisis - GHEC
- Commercial Private Health Sector Basics - GH Learning Center
- An assessment of interactions between global health initiatives and country health systems - The Lancet
- Bridging the divide: global lessons from evidence-based health policy in Mexico - Julio Frenk
Monitoring and Evaluation
- Coming Soon
Health Equity, Ethics and Partnerships
- Host community perspectives on trainees participating in short-term experiences in global health. - Medical Education - 2016
- Host community perspectives on trainees participating in short-term experiences in global health. - Medical Education - 2016
- Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine - PLoS 2006
- Ethical Challenges in Short-Term Global Health Training - Johns Hopkins & Stanford
- Introduction to Research Ethics - Johns Hopkins
- Working in a Cross Cultural Context - GHEC
- Ethics and best practice guidelines for training experiences in global health - Working Group on Ethics Guidelines for Global Health Training (WEIGHT)
- Seven Sins of Humanitarian Medicine - World Journal of Surgery
Education and Capacity building
- Improving global health education: development of a Global Health Competency Model. - Am J Trop Med Hyg 2014
Clinical Practice in Resource-Constrained Settings
Simulation-based learning material
- Ethical reasoning simulation: anesthesia in resource-constrained settings - Coming soon
- Anesthetists' Non-Technical Skills Simulation Course (Rwanda) - University of Toronto
- Anaesthesia clinical simulation scenarios for resource-constrained settings (Makerere University) - Coming soon
Lectures & other material
- Introduction to drawover vaporizers - Coming Soon
- Intro to the Universal anesthesia machine, Boyle, & Glostavent - Coming Soon
- Ether 101 - Coming Soon
- Halothane 101 - Coming Soon
- Ketamine 101 - Coming Soon
- Anesthesia without oxygen and power - Coming Soon
- Pain management strategies with limited resources - Coming Soon
- Preop optimization in low resource settings - Coming Soon
- Transfusion strategies in resource-constrained settings - Coming Soon
- Pediatric anesthesia in resource-constrained settings - Coming Soon
- Regional anesthesia in resource-constrained settings - Coming Soon
- Approaches to critical care in LMICs - Coming Soon
- Low-tech patient monitoring strategies - Coming Soon
- Difficult airway techniques in resource-constrained settings - Coming Soon
- (Course) Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage - GH Learning Center
- Learners in Women’s Health in Low Resource Settings - UCSF/APGO
- Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care - GH Learning Center
- WHO Essential Medicines List – From Idea to Implementation - GHEC
- Every Second Matters-Ketamine: strategy for emergency anesthesia by non-anesthetists in resource-limited settings - MGH
Additional Global Health Reading & Resources
About the Editors
Emmanuel Ayebale, MMed, is an Assistant Lecturer of Anaesthesia at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. He practices clinical anaesthesia as well as critical care at Mulago National Referral Hospital and the International Hospital Kampala. Dr. Ayebale is an active collaborator and instructor with Gradian Health’s Universal Anesthesia Machine, the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland's SAFE Obstetrics Course, and the Oxford University Anaesthesia for Developing Countries Course.
Michael Lipnick, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Program Director of the HEAL Anesthesia Global Health Fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. He has served as a contributor to the Global Burden of Disease Study Group and co-founded The Global Health Hub and Global Partners in Anesthesia and Surgery.
