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Global Health Education

Global health education is the teaching, training, and capacity-building aimed at equipping health professionals, students, and communities with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to address health challenges that transcend national borders. It encompasses formal curricula in public health, medicine, and nu…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 7 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 5× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2693-1176 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Global health education is the teaching, training, and capacity-building aimed at equipping health professionals, students, and communities with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes needed to address health challenges that transcend national borders. It encompasses formal curricula in public health, medicine, and nursing, continuing professional development, and community-level health promotion, all oriented toward understanding the determinants of health and disease in diverse and often resource-limited settings. The field emphasizes competencies in epidemiology, health systems, social and cultural determinants, ethics, and cross-cultural collaboration, recognizing that effective practice depends on adapting interventions to local context. Themes addressed in this area include comparative analysis of dietary and nutrition education across countries, the configuration and limitations of health systems in developing and underdeveloped settings, the social and cultural roles that shape health behaviour, stigma and its legal and social dimensions during epidemics, and the uptake of services such as maternal nutrition support. By building human capital and informed communities, global health education supports the design, delivery, and evaluation of programmes intended to reduce disparities and improve outcomes across populations. It also fosters reciprocal learning between high- and low-resource environments, attention to equity and cultural competence, and the development of a workforce able to respond to emerging and persistent global health priorities.

Research published in this journal

7 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2021

Covid-19, Stigma & Law of the Leper

Kofi Gokah TheophilusCorresponding author
Cardiff University School of Social Science.
International Journal of Global Health doi:10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-21-3838
2020

Health Systems of Underdeveloped and Developing Countries

Mango LucioCorresponding author
Head for Higher Education in Healthcare, University of International Studies (UNINT) – Rome, Italy
International Journal of Global Health Cited by 3 doi:10.14302/issn.2693-1176.ijgh-20-3489

How this research is being cited

The 7 articles above have been cited 5 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Global Health Education, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Global Health (ISSN 2693-1176).

Journal editorial board
Andrew Hall · United Kingdom Richard Bright · Australia Zhiqiang Feng · United Kingdom

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