Background Thousands of medical students undertake international medical electives each
year. These students face potentially substantial health and safety risks as well as …

Short-term experiences in global health (STEGH), also known as short-term medical
missions continue to be a popular mode of engagement in global health activities for …

Medical-school applicants learn from many sources that they must stand out to fit in. Many
construct self-presentations intended to appeal to medical-school admissions committees …

Abstract “Plantation politics” pervade multiple institutions in the United States, including
public health. Drawing from my experience working as a volunteer at drive‐thru COVID …

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 …

The interdisciplinary, politically contested field of Global Health has often been described as
a consequence of, and response to, an intensification of the mobilities of, and connectivities …

Purpose To quantify how often physical therapists from high-income countries (HIC)
travelling to low-and middle-income countries (LMIC) practise outside their scope of …

This article explores the professional construction of the space of Global Health. I argue that
the growth of Global Health as a field of practice does not merely indicate an intensification …

A rise in international medical volunteering (IMV) poses complex issues for organizations,
clinicians, and trainees to navigate. This article explores ethical implications of IMV, such as …

Purpose: Little is known about the impact medical trainees undertaking global health
electives (GHEs) have on host institutions and their communities in low-and middle-income …