Global Health -

This issue of the Journal focuses on Global Health.
Everything global is local, and vice versa – such is the premise of the field of Global Health, and the foundational notion of this issue of the Delaware Journal of Public Health. Indeed, the field of global and community health shares common antecedents in both the biological and social sciences, and is best seen as a continuum between geographies rather than two distinct entities. On a daily basis, the issues of the rest of the world impact the U.S. and vice versa. Does the health and well-being of people living in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, or the Middle East impact our health and resource allocation here at home in the United States?
Zika – originated in Uganda, SARS – originated in China, MERS – originated in Saudi Arabia

Q. Does pollution on the other side of the globe influence our weather and health here at home? A. China surpassed the United States as the greatest emitter of greenhouse gases in 2006. It is science, not conjecture, that greenhouse gases affect our ozone layer, with significant downstream impacts.

Q. Does U.S. policy on trade, immigration, international development and diplomacy affect other countries? It is easy to argue that no other country affects the global stage more substantially. A. Most recently, refugees to the U.S. from numerous locales have been the focus of both thoughtful action, and less rational invective. As a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we in the U.S. strongly support the rights of individuals, including migrants, from several perspectives: legal, humanitarian, and economic. We support the integration of all those who become productive members of our society, which strengthens our broader fabric as an immigrant nation. E Pluribus Unum.

We should also not forget the hundreds of thousands of Americans who work (or are deployed) across the globe. Their health and well-being is impacted by the conditions within which they work and live, and when they return home, that impact, behavioral and physical, can travel with them.

Article 1. In this Issue: Global Health
Omar A. Khan, MD, MHS and Timothy E. Gibbs, MPH

Article 2. Global Maternal and Child Health: A Research Partnership’s Approach for Addressing Challenges and Reducing Health Disparities in Developing Countries
Richard J. Derman, MD, MPH; Shivaprasad S. Goudar, MD, MHPE; Frances J. Jaeger, PhD, MPH, AM; Omar Khan, MD, MHS

Article 3. Rwanda Health and Healing Program
James Plumb, MD, MPH; Ellen J. Plumb, MD, MPH; and Desmond McCaffery

Article 4. What the Global Health Community Can Learn from Africa
Debora Kamin Mukaz, MS and Melissa Melby, PhD, MPhil

Article 5. Delaware Cancer Mortality Continues to Decrease; Public Health Releases Annual Cancer Report
Kara Odom Walker, MD, MS, MSHS

Article 6. Jewish Family Services of Delaware’s Response to the Global Refugee Crisis
Lourena Gboeah, MSW

Article 7. Global Health’s Grand Challenge: Achieving Healthy Populations and a Sustainable Planet
Keith Martin, MD, PC

Article 8. Perspectives: Hurricane Maria – Global Disaster, Local Response
Timothy E. Gibbs, MPH, NPMc

Article 9. Travelers Should Continue Taking Measures to Prevent Zika and Other Diseases
Sean Dooley

Article 10. Teaching Global Health at an Academic Health Center in Delaware: the Evolution of a Global Health Curriculum and Global Health Residency Tracks at Christiana Care Health System
Ellen Plumb, MD, MPH; Karla Testa, MD; and Omar Khan, MD, MHS, FAAFP

Article 11. Study Abroad for Pre-Health Profession Students
Donald C. Lehman, EdD and Kathryn Goldman, MA

Article 12. Vaccines and Global Health
Katherine W. Smith, MD, MPH