Global Health at VCU
VCU offers many ways to engage in global health, including:
- Numerous global health-related study abroad programs such as the following:
- Nursing Students Without Borders: A Service-Learning Experience in Guatemala
- Medical Laboratory Sciences Spring Break Scholars Program
- New Zealand: Exploring Healthcare Innovation
- History of Medical Imaging
- Costa Rica Healthcare Immersion
- A Healthy Slice of Bologna: Health Care in Italy
- Spain: Promoting the Welfare of Older Adults in the Context of Population Aging
- South Africa: Camp Qmunity Cape Town & Johannesburg: LGBTQIA+ Intersectional Experiences of Post-Colonial South Africa
- Institute for Women’s Health: Guatemala: Women’s Health & Healing
- Kinesiology and Health Sciences: Brazil: Preventative Health Care Perspectives in Brazil and the U.S.: Physical Activity Motivation Interventions
- General Medical Shadowing programs, not VCU affiliated
- Joining VCU’s Peace Corps Prep program
- Connecting with VCU’s Humphrey Fellowship participants on campus
- Engaging in VCU’s annual Global Health Symposium
- Guidance for faculty/staff about developing an Agreement for Clinical Training in a Foreign Country, a new faculty-led education abroad program and/or global health related research opportunities, including with international partnership universities (email global@vcu.edu to learn more about VCU’s partners around the world)
- And more!
For a list of faculty engaged in global health, please see the School of Medicine’s ACCESS program website.
Faculty and staff are invited to join our global health listserv.