The United States continues to lag behind other high-income countries on significant health indicators, including infant mortality, chronic disease, and overall mortality, largely due to health and health care inequities. Interventions designed to eliminate health inequity in other countries may also work in local communities in the United States. The Global Learning for Health Equity Network is a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded effort to build a framework that will support the adaptation of health equity interventions from overseas to U.S. settings with a strong focus on community engagement and bidirectional learning.
The Global Learning for Health Equity Network is based at University of Maryland, Baltimore with collaborating partners in the Athens, Ohio, Department of Public Health, the Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Health System, and the Navajo Nation in the Four Corners region of the Southwest.
The focus of the three-part webinar series is to study global learning from multiple perspectives to inform the development of a toolkit designed to support demand and uptake of global learning for health equity. The sessions will include opportunities for participant questions and interaction with panelists.
Overview of Webinars
- Webinar #1: A Vision of Global Learning for Health Equity
Wednesday, Dec. 1
noon - 1:30 p.m.
This session will feature internationally renowned experts in the field of global learning and health equity to provide an overview of the state of science and a vision for the future.
Featured Speakers: Karabi Acharya, MHS, ScD (Moderator); Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, CRNP-Neonatal, FNAP, FAAN; Virginia Rowthorn, JD, LLM (Global Health Law); Agnes Binagwaho, MD, M(Ped), PHD; Shams Syed, MD, MPH; Jennifer Jean Prah, PhD, MSc, MA, MSL; and Krishna Udayakumar MD, MBA
- Webinar #2: Voices of Experience: Learning from Global Learning for Health Equity Practitioners
Tuesday, Dec. 7
noon - 1:30 p.m.
This session will feature lightning presentations and facilitated conversation with practitioners and community members currently implementing global learning for health equity projects in the U.S. Conversation will focus on the opportunities for, and barriers to, global learning for health equity in the U.S. to help inform development of a framework to support to global learning.
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- Webinar #3: Voice of Experience: Learning from Global Learning for Health Equity Framework Developers and Funders
Wednesday, Dec. 8
noon - 1:30 p.m.
The final session will be a discussion with the developers of existing frameworks for global learning to discuss the status of current frameworks, gaps in existing frameworks, and whether a new framework for global learning for health equity is needed or whether existing frameworks can be adapted for this purpose. This session will also feature a conversation with two funders who have supported global learning for health equity to discuss the future of the field and how to reach sustainability.
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