Welcome
The Global Health Systems Program supports education and research of health systems by examining good practices of developed countries.
Mission
The mission of the Global Health Systems Program is to be a progressive program to help students and faculty to understand the successes and challenges that are faced in health care delivery throughout the world as well as to provide international learning experiences. Recognizing that health care systems in the future will have critical characteristics that might be common around the globe, this program will seek to understand the process of health care delivery by focusing on developed countries, to learn from others how to improve our own systems and to help other countries improve their health care systems. The program will promote understanding of the globalization of health care.
Course Offering
A Global Health Systems course (CMH 772) is offered as an elective in the Master of Public Health Program. This course introduces the principles of structures and mechanisms of global health systems focused on developed countries. Interdisciplinary studies will be made of the achievements and the challenges in global health systems by cross-cutting the problems, e.g. global burden of diseases, process of health system development. It will explore the possible approaches to improving health systems at the national and global levels from interrelated perspectives, e.g. evidence based medicine, cost-effectiveness, quality of care, equity, human rights. For more information, view a sample syllabus.
Research
The Global Health Systems Program is dedicated to research to: - Understand international health systems and the effects on health care delivery
- Compare international and U.S. health systems
- Identify best practices internationally
- Develop and execute joint international research in health systems
- Correlate U.S. to international health policy and consequences
- Complement International Health Program research efforts
Research Travel Student Scholarships
The Global Health Systems Program will provide grants for students at Boonshoft School of Medicine to conduct health systems
research of primarily developed countries on a competitive basis. For more information, see:
Research Travel Student Scholarships.
Travel Information
For more information, contact:
Erin Farr, Program Assistant
Center for Global Health Systems, Management, and Policy
Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine
3123 Research Blvd., Suite 200
Kettering, OH 45420-4006
Campus Mail: 200 Tech Center IV; Research Park
Phone: (937) 258-5557
Fax: (937) 258-5544
E-mail: erin.amour@wright.edu |
