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Educational Exchange Brings Ugandan Hematologist Dr. Christine Sekaggya-Wiltshire to Yale School of Medicine
Office of Global Health
The mission of the Office of Global Health in the Department of Internal Medicine is to address global health disparities through education and research, in partnership with institutions serving resource-limited communities around the world.
We build equity-focused, mutually respectful, collaborative relationships with partner institutions to create opportunities for bidirectional educational exchange. Since its inception in 2009, the Office of Global Health has trained the next generation of health care leaders to incorporate critical perspectives on global health systems and the evolving burden of disease into their future practice. Additionally, our programs promote skill development related to enhancing cross-cultural communication and collaboration, navigating ethical challenges, and addressing social, political, and environmental determinants of health.
Global Health Scholars Program
Through the Global Health Scholars Program, the Office of Global Health offers six-week clinical rotations for U.S. trainees at domestic and international partner health care facilities under the supervision of local colleagues. Trainees learn how medicine is practiced in a different clinical setting in a distinct cultural context. Trainees also offer medical education to local students and trainees at these partnering institutions.
The Department of Internal Medicine began supporting global health clinical rotations for residents in 1981. Since 2001, the Yale/Stanford Global Health Scholars program has trained over 960 residents, fellows, and faculty through these clinical rotations; 62% of scholars have been from Yale.
International Partner Training Activities
The Office of Global Health brings colleagues from international partner sites to Yale for clinical observership training. These clinicians spend up to twelve months in New Haven engaging in individually tailored knowledge and skill development programs, then return to their home institutions to implement what they have learned.
Since 2009, over 50 individuals from partner institutions in Uganda, Rwanda, Indonesia, Liberia, and Haiti have participated in these capacity building exchanges and have subsequently strengthened their home institutions, as well as other institutions in their home countries.
Additionally, under the umbrella of the Makerere University/Yale University (MUYU) Collaboration, we partner with the Yale Office of Global Health Education and Visiting Student Programs to bring senior medical students from the Makerere University School of Medicine to Yale for four-week-long clinical rotations.
Global Health & Equity Distinction Pathway
Yale Refugee Health Program
Training Support
In addition to providing training and research opportunities for residents, fellows, and faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine, the Office of Global Health supports opportunities for trainees and faculty in the Departments of Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Pediatrics, and Surgery, as well as students across Yale Schools of Medicine (medical and physician associate), of Nursing, and of Public Health. Other university partners include the Yale Institute for Global Health and the Yale Center for Asylum Medicine.
We collaborate with the following partners to offer training:
- Makerere University/Yale University (MUYU) Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda
- University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK), Kigali, Rwanda
- Church of Scotland Hospital & Philanjalo NGO, Tugela Ferry, South Africa
- United States partner sites:
Reciprocally, residents, fellows, physicians, and faculty travel to Yale School of Medicine’s campus in New Haven to gain additional training. Visitors on campus in 2023–2024 include:
- Dr. Christine Sekaggya Wiltshire (Hematology) – Uganda
- Dr. Ivan Kimuli (Pulmonology) – Uganda
- Dr. Susan Adakun (Pulmonology) – Uganda
Want a list of previous visitors? See Visitors on Campus.
Who We Are
Core Team
Affiliated Faculty
Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health; Director, Adult Refugee clinic; Director, Wellness Center, Connecticut Mental Health Center
Associate Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Director, Yale Center for Asylum Medicine, Internal Medicine