Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Global health concepts

1. Developing a global perspective

2. What is global health?

3. Global health care systems and universal health care

4. Global health policy and the sustainable development goals

5. Global health challenges for the 21st century

6. The right to health and a framework convention on global health

7. Global mental health, behavioral medicine, and wellness

8. Water, sanitation, hygiene, and health

9. Food, agriculture, and nutrition

10. Climate and health

11. Information communication technology and health

12. Scaling up in global health

Part II. Global health practice

13. Global health experiences

14. Global health competencies for the health sciences

15. Working with communities

16. Transformative engagement and leadership for global health

17. Guidelines for planning a global health learning experience

18. Navigating global health for student organization

19. Planning for health and safety

20. Global health professional skills and careers

Part III. Global health perspectives

21. So you want to save the world? First, you've got to know it

22. Since you asked

23. Leadership lessons from the last mile

24. How global health identity politics harms local communities

25. Gender and community well-being

26. Strengthening immunization programs

27. HIV : US to global perspectives

28. Tuberculosis and the long and winding road toward a global health career

29. Linking research to applied field work

30. A call to surgeons to advance global health

31. Stories and balance

32. The global burden of avoidable childhood blindness

33. Global health nursing

34. Contributions of pharmacists in global public health

35. Reflections and stepping-stones to a career in global health

36. Global health and education

37. The importance of narrative to global health research and practice

38. The urban opportunity for global health

39. Building effective health system in transitional societies

40. Grand challenges in global health and the role of universities