Global Health Electives

UNC School of Medicine policy requires all medical students undertaking global health travel to complete pre-travel requirements and receive written approval at least eight weeks prior to their departure. Failure to do so may result in cancellation of your program, funding, and course credit.

You are encouraged to choose UNC’s approved international sites. Other sites will require OGHE approval. Request a meeting with OGHE. We will work with you and your faculty advisor to find the best possible solution.

Migrant Health Service-Learning, UNC & Tucson, AZ

Open to all Medical and PH students, and Resident Physicians

Seminar in Migration and Health (8 weeks on Fridays, starting Friday, Jan. 12, 1:25-3:20 pm) taught by Dr. Laura Villa Torres (SPH): Explore the complexities of the migrant experience in the Americas and at the US/Mexico border; prerequisite for MHSL Tucson experience.

MHSL, Tucson, AZ, May 25-June 2, 2024

Program details/info, recording of past participants from October 2023 and applications for 2024 here.

Watch video testimonials of pilot year (2022) here; review 2022 slides here.

Reproductive & Sexual Health in Bolivia (CIES) –Multiple Locations

Open to all Medical and PH students, and Resident Physicians

Program details/info, recording of past participants from October 2023 and applications for Summer 2024 here.

Review CIES institutional slides here (with introduction to Bolivia’s progress and challenges); example of teenage outreach (Tú decides) here (in Spanish); education initiatives here.  Recent publication on the challenges youth have faced during the pandemic regarding their exercise of sexual and reproductive rights and new post-covid challenges in Bolivia here.

Past Year Info session 2023 recording & slides