Pre-Travel Orientation Session for Students Traveling Abroad
The GHI provides a pre-travel orientation session for students traveling abroad, including (but not limited to) Framework in Global Health Scholars, and AMS Summer Assistantship recipients. All are strongly encouraged to attend this one-day training session.
The orientation covers the following topics:
- global health basics
- personal health and safety
- vaccinations
- cultural issues
- practical advice for living overseas
- responsible conduct in research
Please see below for selected pre-travel training materials:
- The Practitioner's Guide to Global Health (strongly recommended
- Pre-Travel Consultation, by Rebecca Reece, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Clinician Educator, Brown University
- How NOT to save the world: Why U.S. students who go to poor countries to 'do good' often do the opposite
- During Your Global Health Elective, by Wayne A. Hale, MD, MS, MCHS Family Medicine Residency Program Greensboro AHEC, University of North Carolina Dept of Family Medicine
- Other CUGH Educational Modules