The GHI provides a pre-travel orientation session for students traveling abroad, including (but not limited to) Framework in Global Health Scholars, and AMS Summer Assistantship recipients. All are strongly encouraged to attend this one-day training session.
The orientation covers the following topics:
- global health basics
- personal health and safety
- vaccinations
- cultural issues
- practical advice for living overseas
- responsible conduct in research
Selected pre-travel training materials:
- Planning Your Global Activity, a guide by the Office of Global Engagement
- The Practitioner's Guide to Global Health (strongly recommended)
- Pre-Travel Consultation, by Rebecca Reece, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator, Brown University
- How NOT to save the world: Why U.S. students who go to poor countries to 'do good' often do the opposite
- During Your Global Health Elective, by Wayne A. Hale, MD, MS, MCHS Family Medicine Residency Program Greensboro AHEC, University of North Carolina Dept of Family Medicine
- Other CUGH Educational Modules
Other helpful links:
- GHEARD: Global Health Education for Equity, Anti-Racism and Decolonization
- SUGAR: Simulation Use for Global Away Rotations
- World Health Organization
Brown University requires that all undergraduate, graduate, and medical students traveling on Brown-sponsored travel register their travel information in TravelSafe. The details you provide regarding itinerary and emergency contacts will help Brown’s Global Travel Safety and Security administrators provide available assistance in the event of an emergency.