WHAT IS GLOBAL HEALTH?

a) Our world is shrinking. With rapidly increasing movements of information, goods, services and people, the developments in one region of the world can have great consequences on the lives and health of people on the other side of the globe. Therefore, our health must be seen now in a global context and the issues of globalization, whether an opportunity or a threat to our health, are only accelerating. In Global Health we learn to think differently about problems and solutions as to be better equipped to bridge the gap between healthy and unhealthy, rich and poor, and other social inequities.

b) We are all in this together and working to solve global health problems will help ensure that our world tomorrow and the world in which our children will live in future, is going to be a better place.