initiatives

Current Initiatives

Current initiatives of the Global Health Committee are the:

• Development of a NYS Global Health Database for sharing educational and programmatic information and resources across institutions;
• Creation of a NYS Global Health Calendar, including e-blasts of upcoming global health events taking place in NYS;
• Development of a Curriculum Map of NYS Global Health Curriculum;
• Sharing of Curricula in NYS through Classrooms Without Walls;
• Creation of AMSNY NOTES, an interactive, online compendium of global health education resources and curriculum; 
• 2011 Student Poster Presentations.

In addition, the Global Health Committee holds annual NYS Global Health Forums, to create the foundation for best practices and resource sharing across health professional schools in the state and the development of Global Health curricula and competencies.

NYS Global Health Forums

On December 3, 2009, with the help of a planning committee represented by schools across NYS, the AMSNY/NYSADC Global Health consortium held the first annual 2009 NYS Global Health Forum. The Forum brought together global health leaders and educators at the medical, dental, nursing and public health schools to present the global health programs being conducted at their institutions and focus on ways in which health institutions in NYS could move forward in collaborative Global Health efforts.

The development of shared global health curricula and competencies across the health professions is the focus of the 2010 NYS Global Health Forum on Tuesday, December 14, 2010. The goal of the forum is to lay the foundation for resource sharing across health professional schools in the state and the development of NYS Global Health “Classrooms Without Walls”.