Prof. Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD, Professor of Global Health Policy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and co-chair of CUGH’s Advocacy and Communications Committee created with committee members and his students on the US elections.
In supporting our faculty members in the United States, the Consortium of Universities for Global Health has developed, with Ben’s leadership, non-partisan teaching resources to support classroom discussions on the global health impacts of the 2024 U.S. Elections.
Developed in response to member needs shared at the CUGH Conference in Los Angeles, the CUGH Advocacy and Communications Committee has brought together:
* Academic Articles — to provide students with background information on U.S. efforts to influence global health.
* PowerPoint Slides — to guide classroom teaching and facilitate student discussions.
* Fact Sheets — to prepare faculty to discuss seven key global health issues that will be influenced by this election: (1) global governance, (2) health funding, (3) sexual and reproductive health, (4) corporate regulations, (5) tax equity, (6) humanitarian challenges, and (7) climate change.
Thank you to our many CUGH members who worked this summer to develop these academic resources for the fall semester, which can be downloaded below.
We hope that these teaching resources will support global health faculty in the United States to address the U.S. elections in their courses — highlighting the importance of this election for the future of global health. Please do not hesitate to tailor these resources in the way that makes the most sense for your courses. Beyond these initial teaching resources, we will be developing a series of briefings and videos to highlight key global health issues for U.S. voters and encourage candidates to address global health concerns in their campaigns.
These teaching resources will be updated in the coming weeks based upon feedback from our members, but I hope that these tools will be helpful to you as you plan for the fall semester, with student engagement in this busy semester shaping the U.S. elections — and the next generation of global health leaders.