Bandara Shashika, Fieldhouse Jane K, Alwis Inosha, Abascal Miguel Lucía, Christian Canice, Evaborhene Nelson
Department of Global and Public Health, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
Grand Challenges, University of California Davis, Davis, California, United States of America.
PLOS Glob Public Health. 2025 Oct 29;5(10):e0005310. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0005310. eCollection 2025.
Following the abrupt and significant funding cuts by the U.S. and increasing retreat by high-income countries from development aid for health, global health as a field requires reimagining and urgent solution building by all parties involved. In this essay, we aim to draw attention to an important and urgent challenge that deeply affects our collective future: the destruction of global health training opportunities and the weakening of future global health leadership. If we do not approach this challenge with a sense of urgency, global health research and training face irreversible shifts, weakening global preparedness to face future pandemics, address climate crisis, and achieve global goals such as universal health coverage or health for all. We outline existing best practices that we can build on and pathways to build better approaches in global health training.
在美国突然大幅削减资金以及高收入国家从卫生发展援助中日益退缩之后，全球卫生作为一个领域需要所有相关方重新构想并紧急构建解决方案。在本文中，我们旨在提请人们关注一个深刻影响我们共同未来的重要且紧迫的挑战：全球卫生培训机会的破坏以及未来全球卫生领导力的削弱。如果我们不紧迫地应对这一挑战，全球卫生研究与培训将面临不可逆转的转变，削弱全球应对未来大流行、应对气候危机以及实现全民健康覆盖或全民健康等全球目标的准备能力。我们概述了现有的可借鉴的最佳实践以及在全球卫生培训中构建更好方法的途径。
