Thanks to all for some excellent Global Health Management sessions at our June AUPHA meeting in Monterey.
Below are "key issues for the Global Healthcare Management Network to consider" as determined in a group break-out session at the end of our pre-conference GHMN symposium. Feel free to reply with a comment on an issue or two. We will use this key issue information to determine the topics for the pre-conference GHMN symposium in San Antonio next June. In the next couple weeks, GHMN chair-elect Dr. Joe Coyne will send out the minutes from our GHMN Business Meeting and I will use our GHMN website to recruit leaders to conduct a special issue blog or two for our group (e.g., competencies, HA study abroad courses).
Enjoy your summer break!
Regards,
Blair Gifford, PhD
Chair, GHM Network, AUPHA
Professor, Global Health Management
Business/Public Health & the Ctr for Global Health
University of Colorado Denver
Key Points from Group Breakouts at the GHMN Pre-Conference Symposium
- GHMN/AUPHA website
Use the GHMNetwork blog/AUPHA to connect and communicate more
Use the GHMN blog to connect everyone on key topics
Use the GHMN blog as a repository for global health efforts (study abroad, partnerships, service opportunities
Better use of electronic technology – linkages, virtual conversations (skype, etc.)
- Pre - Conference
Get more people to attend GHMN pre-conference – skype, lower rates
Link with management groups in Oslo (Jim Rice)
- HA Teaching
More tools needed for teaching HA outside U.S.
More tools needed for teaching international health in U.S.
All students needs to be globally competent
Understanding of cultural competencies needed for international health work (Ministry of health, physician specialists, etc.)
Health professional alignment (physicians, administrators, nurses)
Where are HA graduates going to work internationally?
- More Information Needed
How and why is there increasing health system development? (World Bank funds, etc.)
Where are HA graduates going to work internationally?
How does health professional alignment (physicians, administrators, nurses) differ internationally?