Department Overview

Provides foundational knowledge of the variety of research methods, measures, and metrics used in global health, including quantitative estimation methods, qualitative assessments, strengths, limitations, appropriate applications, and presentation /visualization. In addition to understanding existing measures based on historical trajectories, this domain emphasizes a forward-looking approach to anticipate and plan for future trends.

1. Use qualitative or quantitative data sources to assess and interpret global health outcomes and risk factors. This may include temporal trends such as past and current patterns as well as projected future trends, and distribution by socioeconomic, demographic and other (risk) factors.
2. Critique the application of data and metrics commonly used in global health for example, fertility, mortality, morbidity, disability, equity.
3. Visualize or present data in ways that are accurate, accessible, and appropriate for different stakeholders.
4. Describe the use of measures and metrics in recommendation development and priority setting for research, policy, or practice.

Encompasses understanding performance of public, private, and nonprofit health systems at national, subnational and community level as well as the building blocks of health systems strengthening, and strategies for universal health coverage.

1. Critique the design, administration, delivery, and performance of health systems.

Encompasses an understanding of the entire program cycle from strategic analysis, design, management, learning, evaluation, sustainability, and scale-up and the importance of engaging community members as central to the development, management, and evaluation of programs that affect them. Includes the ability to refine all phases of the program cycle with flexibility, to incorporate feedback, continued learning, systems thinking, and strategic analysis to assess factors shaping health trends in a given context, and to formulate and adopt appropriate interventions, projects, and programs at the local, national, and international levels. This domain places an emphasis on implementation science that aims to both effectively translate research into practice and to improve specific stages in the program cycle.

1. Demonstrate ability to integrate evidence or appropriate theory to ensure program alignment with priorities at the local, regional, national or international level.
2. Describe how to conduct relevant operational, implementation, or community-based research to inform the design, adaptation, implementation or evaluation of programs or interventions.
3. Use evidence and theory to design or adapt interventions, projects, or programs that are appropriate for local context.
4. Develop proposals to secure donor support.
5. Develop theory-based and contextually appropriate monitoring, evaluation and learning plans.
6. Apply contextually specific management skills including but not limited to the identification of appropriate project, financial or team management tools.
7. Identify program and financial management practices and how they differ across public, private and nonprofit sectors.
8. Identify strategies to (pick one: adapt, sustain or scale) evidence-based (pick one: interventions, programs, or policies) across diverse settings.

This domain emphasizes skills, including the use of technology, related to the development and delivery of tailored communication strategies that disseminate learnings from research, program development, and evaluation to foster partnerships, accountability and transparency, and advocate for evidence-based policies and programs.

1. Communicate global health research, recommendations or policies effectively and transparently across a range of audiences and contexts, tailoring information, messaging, channels or approaches to their needs and preferences, including but not limited to written, oral and visual formats.
2. Advocate for policies or programs to improve global health through goal-oriented situational analysis, strategy formulation, coalition-building, community organizing, or sustained action.

This domain focuses on the values and skills required of the global health professional to engage diverse stakeholders. It includes the ability to reflect on one’s own privilege and power, recognize the risks of perpetuating harmful hierarchies and power differentials at individual and systemic levels, and identify effective strategies to reverse these imbalances in one’s own practice.

1. Demonstrate reflexivity and humility regarding one’s own power, privilege, culture and professional paradigms, acknowledging one’s own limitations, biases, and influence.
2. Exhibit professional values that demonstrate diplomacy, commitment to social justice, health equity, the dismantling of oppressive systems of power and respect for the unique cultures, values, roles/responsibilities and expertise represented by diverse professions, communities and groups working in global health.
3. Describe leadership practices or styles that foster local ownership, joint decision-making, mutual learning and benefit, and equitable representation of stakeholders in partnerships, especially across a range of power and privilege differentials.
4. Identify professional habits that enable self-guided, ongoing learning and leadership development in global health.

This domain applies a health equity and social justice framework to understand and reflect on the influence of geopolitical systems, historical structures, systems of oppression, and social, environmental, and economic forces on health and health systems at local, national, and global levels. Collectively, this focus contributes to the decolonization of global health. An understanding of global health actors and architecture and the evolution of these serves as a foundation for effective engagement across political landscapes to achieve global health goals.

1. Analyze the impact of sociocultural, political, economic, environmental, religious, or historical factors on health or health behavior at multiple levels of a socio-ecologic framework in low-resource settings.
2. Describe factors that influence equitable access to resources, including quality health services, between or within countries.
3. Critique the systems of oppression and discrimination that exist in a given context and their influence on health or health behavior.
4. Identify strategies to challenge systems oppression and discrimination (i.e. global racism, gender bias, homophobia) to improve health outcomes.
5. Critique global health and development policies, programs, or research with respect to impacts on health equity, human rights, and social justice.
6. Contrast the causes and consequences of poverty and inequity across diverse global contexts.

Encompasses the ability of the global health practitioner to apply sound ethical reasoning in all aspects of global health practice and research.

1. Describe key ethical theories, frameworks, or principles as they relate to global health practice and research.
2. Apply sound ethical reasoning to the design, implementation and evaluation of global health programs, policies or practice, including community engagement processes.
3. Anticipate the positive and negative impacts of global health programs, policies, or research on communities and individuals.