Global Health Training
Working alongside the other OHSU Global programs, we collaborate to promote global health awareness, research, education, and advocacy. The global health curriculum draws upon the expertise of faculty at OHSU and other national and international leaders in the field.
Our residents have the opportunity to:
- participate in local interdisciplinary global health lectures
- learn from self-paced online modules, selected readings, and webinars
- rotate through local, regional, and global sites tailored to their career interests
The Pediatric Global Health Program is an optional supplement to OHSU's pediatric residency curriculum for residents with an interest in global health. For all global experiences, residents have pre-travel orientation and post-travel debriefing.
OHSU Global SE Asia
OHSU has a partnership with Bangkok Hospital and Siriraj Medical School where we collaborate on education, research, and clinical initiatives. We host visiting students, residents, fellows, and faculty, and there are opportunities for resident rotations in Thailand.
In addition, together with the Lao University Health Sciences and the US Department of Defense, OHSU helped develop the Lao American Nutrition Institute (LANI) for leading clinicians, nutritionists, and researchers to train local nutrition experts to study and initiate new approaches to improve the state of nutrition in Laos. As part of this larger collaboration, we established the opportunity for resident rotations at the Lao Friends Hospital for Children that focuses on education and capacity building.
Local and regional global health electives
Residents can stay near Portland and rotate through local urban Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC) and other community clinics that are part of the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center and Yakima Valley Farm Workers Clinic networks. In addition, residents may rotate at Mosiac Medical Center, an FQHC in Central Oregon. Residents can also arrange for rotations at an Indian Health Service site.