Background Growing concerns about the value and effectiveness of short-term volunteer
trips intending to improve health in underserved Global South communities has driven the …

COOKING DATA is an ethnographic study of how demographic data is collected, handled,
processed, and manipulated by fieldworkers, researchers, policymakers, and NGOs in …

International education, service-learning, and community-based global learning programs
are robust with potential. They can positively impact communities, grow civil society …

In Mozambique, where more than half of the national health care budget comes from foreign
donors, NGOs and global health research projects have facilitated a dramatic expansion of …

This article traces how scarcities characteristic of health systems in low-income countries
(LICs), and increasing popular interest in Global Health, have inadvertently contributed to …

Background The demand for international volunteer experiences to promote global health
and nutrition is increasing and numerous studies have documented the experiences of the …

Global health partnerships (GHPs) are the conceptual cousin of partnerships in the
development sphere. Since their emergence in the 1990s, the GHP mode of working and …

Accountability and transparency are considered best practices within development
cooperation frameworks characteristic of global health practice today. In this article, I ask …

Experiential learning is a priority for Canadian universities, with many broadening
international experiential learning options. But opportunities are not always inclusive. Low …

Drawing on ethnographic research at a hospital in rural Zambia, I show how the presence of
white Christian medical volunteers from the United States damaged relations between local …