Student Perspectives

Students in the Master of Medical Sciences in Global Health Delivery program come to the work with a clear understanding that global health is not defined by distance, but by inequity. Some have worked across borders; others have focused their efforts in under-resourced communities closer to home. What connects them is experience grappling with the realities of health care delivery in settings where resources are constrained and systems don’t function as they should. These students arrive with a desire to ask harder questions about how care is organized, funded, and sustained. They are motivated by the belief that improving health outcomes requires more than good intentions: it demands evidence, accountability, and leadership grounded in lived experience. The perspectives below reflect how students use the program to examine the health systems around them.