Education

Training in global pediatrics at Stanford includes opportunities for everyone from undergraduates to post-doctoral fellows and faculty. Our core training initiative is the Global Health Scholarly Concentration for pediatric residents.

One of six formal tracks for pediatric residents to experience  a fundamental category of scholarship and gain a deeper understanding about the process of inquiry. Residents in the concentration have the opportunity to travel in PGY2 and PGY3 to complete 6-week rotations in a GH setting. Read more on the Scholarly Concentration website. 

An NIH T32 Subspecialty Global Health Fellowship, administered by the Stanford Maternal and Child Health Research Institute offers up to three years of salary support and tuition support for up to eight quarters for a master’s degree. A travel budget is also provided for biannual site visits and international conferences where they present their work. His/her/their clinical activity can be in any discipline involving children’s health.

Pediatric residents are welcome to apply to enroll in a 2-week multi-disciplinary course Med233 "Global Health: Beyond Diseases and International Organizations," offered each spring by the Center for Innovation in Global Health. The course provides multidisciplinary trainees across subspecialties with insight to the over-arching themes of global health.

HumBio 124C: Global Child Health (MED 124, PEDS 124), co-taught by Drs. Bonnie Maldonado and Clea Sarnquist, introduces undergrads to key challenges to the health and wellbeing of children worldwide, with a particular focus on children in low- and middle-income countries. It reviews the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, identifies interventions to address some of the biggest child health problems, and provides an overview of the roles of culture, gender, and civil society on child health and health policy.

Humbio 129S: Global Public Health, co-taught by Drs. Tiffany Chao and Victoria Ward, is an introduction to the fields of international public health and global medicine. It focuses on resource poor areas of the world and explores major global health problems and their relation to policy, economic development, culture and human rights. We discuss technical solutions as well as the importance of the social determinants of health, and emphasize multi-sectoral approaches to care. The course is intended to challenge all students to think globally, and is geared for students interested in exploring how their major interests cold be directed to solve global health issues. 

FEMGEN/SOMGEN 206: Global Medical Issues Affecting Women, led by Dr. Clea Sarnquist, probes the principal issues affecting women and girls medically around the world. Topics include women's cancer, birth control, infertility, female genital mutilation, midwifery, obstetric fistula, breastfeeding, violence against women, and women's representation in biomedical research. The aim is to cultivate in students a nuanced appreciation of women's unique needs, roles, and challenges in the contemporary global health landscape.

HUMBIO 29G: Gender and Intersectionality in Global Health, taught by Clea Sarqnuist, explores how gender (e.g. male, female, trans*, non-binary, etc) identity and relationships intersect with other social categorizations, including age and reproductive status (particularly for women), race/ethnicity, socioeconomic class, immigration status, educational attainment, to create systemic advantages or disadvantages that may explain and/or could address poor health outcomes within and across global communities.

Students and trainees--from undergraduates to junior faculty-- are matched with members of Stanford’s renowned faculty from across disciplines to develop skills and expertise in clinical care, research, and advocacy. Please contact the program managers for more information.