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Abimbola, S., Asthana, S., Montenegro, C., Guinto, R. L., Jumbam, D. T., Louskieter, L., & Sheikh, K. (2021). Diversity and solidarity in global health. The Lancet Global Health, 9(4), e382-e383. Retrieved from https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(21)00029-2/fulltext
Abimbola et al. (2021) discuss the importance of diversity and solidarity in global health, emphasizing the need for inclusive approaches to address health inequities, making it essential for learners to gain insights into promoting diversity and solidarity in healthcare practices.

Valdez, L. A., & Nichols, M. (2022). Connections and Biases in Health Equity and Culture Research: A Semantic Network Analysis. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 834172. Retrieved from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2022.834172/full
Valdez and Nichols (2022) conducted a semantic network analysis to explore connections and biases in health equity and culture research, highlighting the significance of understanding the complex relationships and biases within health equity studies, encouraging learners to critically evaluate the underlying assumptions and perspectives in health equity research.

The Lancet. (2019). Gender equality in science, medicine, and global health: where are we at and why does it matter?. The Lancet, 393(10171), 560-563. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673618331350
The Lancet examines gender equality in science, medicine, and global health, shedding light on the existing gender disparities and the importance of promoting gender equality in these fields, making it essential for learners to comprehend the challenges and implications of gender inequity in healthcare and research.

Center for Disease Control and Prevention. (2023). Cultural Competence In Health And Human Services. Retrieved from https://npin.cdc.gov/pages/cultural-competence
The CDC provides resources on cultural competence in health and human services, stressing the significance of developing cultural competence to ensure equitable and effective healthcare delivery, urging learners to acquire the knowledge and skills to provide culturally sensitive care.

World Health Organization. (2022). Bridging the gap between ethics and decision-making in pandemics: report of the WHO Pandemic Ethics and Policy Summit, 6 December 2021. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789240065086
The WHO Pandemic Ethics and Policy Summit, emphasizing the need to bridge the gap between ethics and decision-making in pandemics, underscoring the importance of ethical considerations in shaping policies and decision-making during public health emergencies, making it crucial for learners to understand the ethical dimensions of public health crises and their implications for decision-making.

Pacquiao, D. F., Maxwell, J. B., Ludwig-Beymer, P., Stievano, A., Sagar, P. L., Purnell, L., Daub, K. F., & Halabi, J. O. (2023). Integration of Population Health, Social Determinants, and Social Justice in Transcultural Nursing and Culturally Competent Care: White Paper by the Scholars Education Interest Group. Journal of Transcultural Nursing, 104365962311638. https://doi.org/10.1177/10436596231163878
As part of its mission to advance Transcultural Nursing worldwide, the Transcultural Nursing Society Scholars upholds the central role of the discipline and cultural competence in advocacy, empowerment, and transformation of the life conditions of disadvantaged populations. This White Paper affirms the Scholars’ core belief in the value of Transcultural Nursing and culturally competent care in addressing social determinants to promote health equity.

Venkatapuram, S. (2022). Ethics and Global Health Emergencies. Current History, 121(838), 291–297. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.2022.121.838.291
The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been marred by a widespread failure to embed ethics in policymaking. The consequences have included vaccine hoarding by rich countries and the deaths of millions of people around the world. Governments have followed a simplistic narrative of science and finance teaming up against a virus and delivering a silver bullet in the form of a new vaccine, rather than recognizing that a health emergency reflects patterns of inequality within and across countries and other social factors that need to be addressed. Given the interconnection and interdependency of globalization, ethics must be incorporated in global health policy as a primary consideration, not an afterthought.

Mccunney, D., Reynolds, N., Sabato, E., & Young, R. (n.d.). Promoting Cultural Humility in Global Health: Lessons from a Multi-institutional Community of Practice. https://www.cfhi.org/sites/default/files/files/pages/promoting_cultural_humility_in_global_health_lessons_from_a_multi-institutional_community_of_practice_association_of_american_colleges_universities.pdf
While global health experiences offer benefits to both students and the institutions sending them, these experiences are sometimes problematic and raise ethical challenges with respect to working with vulnerable populations.