Career opportunities in global health

Description of the Field Global health relates to health issues and concerns that transcend national borders, class, race, ethnicity and culture. The term stresses the commonality of health issues which require a collective (partnershipbased) action (http://globalhealtheducation.org/Pages/GlobalvsInt.aspx). It is a research field at the intersection of medical and social science disciplines including demography, economics, epidemiology, political economy, and sociology. From different disciplinary perspectives, it focuses on determinants and distribution of health in international contexts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_health).