Global Health Initiative

Faculty Affiliates: Kendall Hoyt, PhD, Lisa V. Adams, MD

The Global Health Initiative (GHI) is a Dartmouth-wide program dedicated to improving the health of the world's population through multidisciplinary research, education and service. The Dickey Center GHI works across Dartmouth College and the professional schools, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and a network of partners around the world to pursue solutions to critical challenges in global health as we help train the next generation of global health leaders.

Global partnerships and the advancement of global health equity are central to all Dickey Center GHI programming and activities. Our GHI partners beyond campus include national global health leaders, international ministries of health, academic institutions, research institutes, and local and international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) around the world. Our work to inform policy and advance impact consists of joint research, knowledge sharing, capacity building, and education programs with global health colleagues around the world, all informed and driven by co-created priorities. Wherever possible, our educational activities provide opportunities for Dartmouth students and trainees to work with counterparts outside of the US in a co-learning environment and/or advance bi-directional exchanges with partner institutions and countries.

Each year, GHI hosts multiple internships and fellowships supporting students working with faculty and practitioners with diverse experience in global health. Students may apply to a formal Global Health Fellows program, where - through regular meetings, workshops, simulations, and service projects as a cohort - they will learn foundational global health research and practice methods and host conversations with experts in a diversity of global health fields, from health systems and data science to leaders in healthcare policy, infectious disease research, global health security, health and development, health diplomacy, and more.