GLOBAL HEALTH TRAINING PROGRAMS
Fundamentally, global health is about achieving better health outcomes for vulnerable populations and communities around the world. Those who study or practice global health work to eliminate health disparities in low-resource settings around the world through research, education and collaborative intervention. While similar to public health, global health emphasizes a broad, multidisciplinary approach to understanding emerging health challenges, considering social, cultural, economic and environmental factors that underlie health inequities.
The 2022 list of global public health challenges [3] included COVID-19, human resources for health, health financing, conflict and humanitarian crises, mental health, poverty, climate change, child health, reproductive health, and the global infodemic. Responses to COVID-19 and emerging infectious diseases drove the concept of collaborative intelligence, optimizing disease surveillance and developing capacity for locally manufacturing vaccines.
The world will continue to experience an influx of global health challenges in 2023. To proactively plan for and address these complex issues, it is crucial to identify global and public health priority areas. This allows the global community to coordinate, implement, and scale up local and international collaborative actions. Identifying these important challenges is integral to monitoring and developing policies to address these health risks, focusing on lessening the burden in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).
MEDEX ADDIS, in collaboration with global stakeholders will be spearheading efforts in designing and implementing tailor-made courses and training packages for healthcare professionals worldwide on the concepts, key components and practices of Global Health.
Training Packages will address the following conditions which are identified as Global Health Challenges for 2023
- Health systems, Health care financing challenges
- Mental Health and/or Substance Abuse
- Emerging and Re-emerging Communicable Diseases
- Sexual and Reproductive Health (unmet needs)
- Climate change and Environmental Pollution
- Malnutrition and Food safety
- Increasing burden of NCDs such as Cancer and Diabetes