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Global
mobility of students, faculty and citizens to health-related settings in
the Global South is increasingly popular and accessible. While driven by
good intentions to impact global health, with a particular focus on health
in low and middle income countries and underserved settings within high
income countries, there is an increasing recognition of the complexities of
sustainably addressing global health challenges. This exciting webinar will
bring you up to date on best-practices in the area of service-learning and
volunteering in health-related settings with a focus on the great learning
and service opportunities that exist for students and cautions for the
perils, opportunity costs, and unintended impacts that can result despite
good intentions.
Dr.
Jessica Evert is Executive Director of Child Family Health International
(CFHI), a leader in Global Health Education Programs for over 20 years,
serving undergraduate and professional students with over 25 programs in 7
countries. Dr. Evert straddles international education and the medical
profession. She is Faculty in the Department of Family and Community
Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, where she
instructs in Global Health and community-based underserved care. Dr.
Evert is a graduate of the Ohio State University College of Medicine and a
longtime advocate for health-related international education quality and
ethical standards. She is author and editor of multiple chapters,
articles and books in global health with a focus on education, ethics, and
asset-based engagement-- including the just-published "Developing
Global Health Programs: A Guidebook for Medical and Professional
Schools." She helped develop the Forum on Education Abroad's
Standards for Health-Related Undergraduate Programs. Dr. Evert is a
recipient of Global Health Education Consortium's prestigious Christopher
Krogh Award for her dedication to underserved populations at home and
abroad. Dr. Evert's research and advocacy areas of focus are the
ethics of global educational engagement, competency-based international
education, health disparities, asset-based programmatics and reflection.
This webinar series is being organized by the NAFSA Subcommittee on Work,
Internships, and Volunteering Abroad.
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