Education of undergraduate and graduate students, as well as medical students, residents, and fellows constitutes an integral part of both the research and clinical care components that embody global health efforts at Brown.
Global Health Initiative
Courses and Programs
The GHI has compiled a list of courses with global health content across all academic departments at Brown University.
Preclinical Elective: Going Global: An Introduction to Global Health
Designed in collaboration with Brown’s Global Health Initiative (GHI), Going Global: An Introduction to Global Health, is a preclinical elective offered to medical, PLME, and Gateways students who are interested in careers, clinical cases, and public health concerns relating to global health. This elective will introduce participants to current and historical global health practices with a focus on health equity, and provide early exposure to real clinical cases recorded by global health physicians. In addition to didactic sessions, participants will be given the unique opportunity to meet and learn from accomplished practitioners presenting for the GHI-sponsored Global Health Grand Rounds lecture series. Recognizing the importance of research in the advancement of global health, participants may also request and be connected with a physician-mentor conducting global health research in their or a related field of interest. Learning objectives will include principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence. Students will be familiarized with the required skills and training for working in a global health setting including cultural sensitivity and respect for humanity. Awareness of local laws and regulations as well as safety measures will also be discussed. Please find the curriculum here.
Scholarly Concentration in Global Health
Brown University medical students can focus on global health through the Scholarly Concentration in Global Health.
Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
The Research Training Program in Child/Adolescent Biobehavioral HIV prepares post-residency psychiatrists, post-doctoral psychologists, and behavioral scientists to conduct independent research in the area of child/adolescent biobehavioral HIV as full-time University faculty members. The Program is a two-year fellowship in which five research fellows train under the guidance of experienced mentors. It includes didactic work, participation in ongoing funded projects, and independent research.
Department of Emergency Medicine
The Global Emergency Medicine Fellowship is sponsored by Brown Emergency Medicine and affiliated with the Brown University Alpert Medical School as well as Brown School of Public Health. The two-year academic fellowship boasts a wealth of research mentoring opportunities, robust interdepartmental collaboration, and a rich clinical and teaching experience, both domestically and abroad.
Department of Family Medicine
The Brown Global Health Faculty Development Fellowship was started in 2010 to provide FM physicians with the additional global health, health equity, and faculty development skills necessary to assist with the development of pre-doctoral, residency, clinical, and research education in underserved settings locally and globally. As an academic family medicine department with a long history of involvement in global health, the Department of Family Medicine at Brown is particularly well situated to provide faculty development in this area.
Department of Medicine
The Department of Medicine Training Program in the Division of Infectious Diseases brings together the multiple strengths of clinical research from an institution that has a robust track record of training junior faculty members to become independent clinical investigators in the area of HIV and substance abuse.