Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative

The Initiative brings together a diverse group of global health education leaders from high, middle and low income countries to achieve three central goals:

1. To construct the first universal global health education curriculum guidelines that would include recommendations regarding objectives, basic competencies, innovative methods of instruction and evaluation, including measures of impact that would be applicable regardless of the student’s country of origin or destination.
2. To explore how global health education, with its emphasis on the culture of health and health care delivery, changes student knowledge, skills, attitudes and ultimately patient care behaviour.
3. To plan a web-based, international cooperative, the central purpose of which will be to guide and monitor implementation of the model global health education universal curriculum guidelines in various high, middle and low income countries around the globe.

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Our  mission and vision

The Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative is a collaborative of multi-national, interdisciplinary health educators and students focused on advancing global health education of health professions students and faculty preparedness to build competencies and contribute to evidence-based curricula and pedagogy across diversely-resourced settings.

Our values

Diversity: open to members and collaborators from all socioeconomic settings, ethnicities, genders, nationalities, and ages.

Expertise:  members are thought leaders and experts in global health education theory and practice.

Innovation:  promote the use of technology, emerging educational models, and evaluation to measure progress towards entrustment.

Collaboration: work in interdisciplinary groups that include health professions students, faculty, and other colleagues with interests in global health education.

Our governance

We believe that at this stage of development, the organization should remain relatively “flat” with an Executive Committee/PIs who take responsibility for communications and in-person meetings of the large group, assisting small groups, membership in BGHEI, and concerns about authorship.  Each small group has leaders responsible for managing meetings of the small group, determining collaborations and recommending new members.

We welcome contact from individuals or organisations that share our vision, mission, and values. If you would like to find out more about our work, if you have a question, or if your are interested in joining with us, please get in touch.