Global Health Pathway

Prepare for a Career without Borders.

The Global Health Pathway (GHP) is a concentration available to select students in the Rueckert-Hartman College for Health Professions who are passionate about health equity and eager to make a meaningful impact, whether close to home or across the world.

By integrating knowledge with action, you'll gain insight into contemporary global health issues through course work, service learning and clinical experiences in both local and international settings, all while satisfying your primary degree program requirements. The pathway fosters intentional, interprofessional learning, deepens your understanding of population-based approaches to global health challenges and prepares you to work effectively with community partners and organizations around the world — giving you a competitive advantage for advanced studies or a career in global health.

Immersion Experiences of the Present and Past

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La Ciudad de la Esperanza
Coban, Guatemala

This immersion experience in Cobán, Guatemala, brings students and faculty together with local primary care, nursing, pharmacy and rehabilitation professionals for direct care, clinical observation, service projects and interprofessional learning. In partnership with La Ciudad de la Esperanza medical clinic and school, the program emphasizes health education, illness prevention and rehabilitation across clinical and community settings.

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Haven of Hope
Denver, Colorado

This domestic immersion partners with Haven of Hope, a Denver-based day shelter serving guests experiencing homelessness and poverty, to address real urban health needs. Students and faculty provide direct care at the GHP clinic on the first and third Wednesdays of each month, along with compassion care, meal service, service projects, staff continuing education and interprofessional learning.

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La Puente
Alamosa, Colorado

This weekend domestic immersion partners with La Puente, an organization serving guests experiencing homelessness and poverty throughout the San Luis Valley, to address rural health needs. Students and faculty provide direct care at the GHP health fair and clinic, conduct outreach to unhoused community members at the city encampment and along the riverbank in Alamosa, and participate in service projects, staff continuing education and interprofessional learning.

Students in Ipalamwa, Tanzania

Ipalamwa, Tanzania

During this past immersion opportunity, health care professionals from all disciplines worked in Global Volunteers' eight-bed health clinic in Ipalamwa, Tanzania. The clinic focused on maternal and child health care and offers services, including health screenings and checkups, to nearly 20,000 citizens, the vast majority of whom were children.

Students in Peru

Huancayo, Peru

As part of this past immersion opportunity, Regis students worked with the Catholic Medical Mission Board, which built two interprofessional community-based rehabilitation programs as part of their mission to transform the lives of vulnerable women and children. 

Ready to Get Started?

Current students can apply to the GHP via the downloadable application. For more information, contact the GHP at globalhealth@regis.edu or 303.458.4174.

Three-step GHP process: 1. Choose global health topic area(s) to study throughout degree program; 2. Review global health competencies and program requirements. Create an action plan for completion prior to graduation. 3. Complete immersion assignments and requirements, participate in immersion and special event experiences, attend group advising meetings, complete assessment document, present capstone

How Does It Work?

The GHP is a student-driven program of independent study with advising from the GHP Committee. Students apply to the GHP early in their studies, many during the fall semester of their first year. If accepted, they integrate the GHP Competencies into their primary degree requirements by focusing on global health issues through course work, service, interprofessional reflection, local and/or international global health immersions.

Global Health Pathway Experiences: Education - Teaching, Service Learning, Clinical Practice

Program Framework

The Global Health Pathway is built on three pillars — Service, Education and Clinical Practice — designed to help students examine health care systems through multiple lenses and develop the competencies that will transform their practice. Through course work, service learning and immersion experiences, students work toward the GHP Competencies through a structured assessment process.

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