The University of Global Health Equity aims to provide the tools and technology to develop the skills students need to improve fragile health systems.

Farmworkers can become ill due to toxic exposure in their work environments. Recommending specific restrictions, educating patients on protection strategies, and partnering with agribusiness owners and allied health workers can drive development of alternatives to agricultural practices with health risks.

Practices changed when hospitals became places of recovery rather than death.

Understanding the religious background of patients and their surrogates is essential to providing patient-centered care at the end of life.

Single-procedure interventions with minimal follow-up and clear quality-of-life gain are well suited for surgical mission trips. But not all risks and benefits are easily assessed.

Global health outreach programs can risk benefitting students from resource-rich areas of the world more than the patients in resource-poor areas of the world. This month’s episode of Ethics Talk explores an alternative to academic health center-based health outreach programs.

Prognostic uncertainty about risk creates demand for ongoing communication and facilitated reflection about goals and values.

Empathic communication skills help motivate understanding of safety, significance of harms, impact on succeeding generations, and social consequences.

The Volunteer Physicians for Vietnam Program (1966-1973) influenced both physicians-in-training and the environments in which they were immersed.

What can American health systems developers learn from abroad? Leading programs draw on global lessons to build sustainable and effective care in the US.