EGHI Offers Continuing Education in Global Health Equity
Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI) offers a self-paced, online course that aims to enhance awareness and understanding of the historical legacies that perpetuate power asymmetry and structural barriers to global health equity. The course, Understanding Power Imbalances, Biases, and Structural Challenges Towards Advancing Equity in Global Health, is offered free of charge to Emory staff, faculty, and students only through Emory Continuing Education (ECE).
You must have an Emory email to register for the course.
Course Overview
This 90-minute course consists of 10 modules with video lectures focused on the history of global health, understanding structural discrimination; intersectionality; ethics, health, and human rights; equity in global health partnerships; global health financing and research funding; and future directions for advancing health equity.
In addition to the video lectures, each module offers readings and case studies. Participants who complete 80% of the course material, modules and exercises, will receive a certificate.
Course Topics and Instructors
Global health experts from within and outside the Emory community share knowledge and practices for addressing individual, societal, and institutional biases that are barriers to advancing equity in global health. Course instructors are global health experts who share perspectives and offer culturally responsive, ethical, and meaningful strategies and best practices for working across disciplines and sectors to advance health equity.
EGHI Speakers
Module 1: Welcome and Course Overview Module 9: Future Directions for Advancing Global Health Equity | Vice President for Global Health, Emory University; Director, Emory Global Health Institute; Research Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Emory University |
Module 1: Welcome and Course Overview Module 2: History of Global Health and Colonial Legacies Module 10: Key Messages and Closing | Course Director, Emory Global Health Institute; Adjunct Associate Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University |
| Module 7: Global Health Financing and Research Funding | Associate Director, Emory Global Health Institute (EGHI); Professor, School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University |
Guest Speakers
| Module 3: Understanding Structural Discrimination in Global Health | Neonatologist, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital; Maternal Fetal & Neonatal Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine |
| Module 4: Intersectionality in Global Health | Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Emory University, Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta University; Director, Pediatric Global Health Track, Global Health Office of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Emory University |
| Module 5: Ethics, Health, & Human Rights | Director, Focus Area for Compassion and Ethics (FACE), Task Force for Global Health; Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University |
| Monica Swahn, PhD Module 6: Equity in Global Health Partnership | Dean & Professor of Health Promotion and Physical Education, Wellstar College of Health and Human Services, Kennesaw University |
| Module 6: Equity in Global Health Partnership | Conrad N. Hilton Chair in Global Health Ethics Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Center for Ethics, Emory University |
| Module 8: Advancing Global Health Equity: Perspectives & Initiatives | Representative & Head of Mission in Iraq, World Health Organization (WHO); Previous WHO Liaison for Africa CDC, African Union |
| Module 8: Advancing Global Health Equity: Perspectives & Initiatives | Co-Chair, O’Neil-Lancet Commission on Racism and Structural Discrimination in Global Health; Associate Fellow, Chatham House |
Learn more about the asynchronous course format, learner outcomes, and how to register. For questions about the course, email course director, Dr. Senait Kebede, or teaching assistants Hayat Geresu and Sophio Mihan.
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