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What Is a Global Health Professional?

Tulane Public Health Blog

While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity. Such a response is also essential for creating a more equitable global health community.

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Ten Low-Cost Interventions to Provide Mental Health Care in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

BMJ Global Health

Peer Counseling and School-Based Programs Leveraging the power of shared experience, peer counselors can provide empathetic listening, guidance, and encouragement, making mental health care more relatable and less stigmatized.

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Honoring the 2025 AMCHP Annual Award Recipients

Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

After earning her Master of Public Health from Emory University, Haita began working for the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) in 2022. In addition to the MIECHV Program, Dee oversees the New Jersey Doula Learning Collaborative, the Midwifery Education Program and the Stillbirth Awareness & Prevention Campaign.

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Funding Community Health Workers

Exploring Health

Underutilized and Undervalued: Community Health Workers Are the Way Forward in Global Health Crises Community health workers reduce healthcare inequities around the world. While international health rights guarantee the right to health, this is not the lived reality for these populations.

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‘Equity and stability’: An interview with Dr. Michelle Morse, NYC’s acting health commissioner

HEALTHBEAT

Now she’s at the helm of one of the world’s largest public health agencies, steering a department with a roughly $2 billion budget and thousands of employees. Advancing health equity has been a throughline in Morse’s varied and accomplished career. We are all interconnected.