Sacred Heart University, Connecticut, United States
Strategic Partner: Universidad Rafael Landívar, Guatemala
Acting Globally, Thinking Locally: A Community-Engaged Student Exchange in Global Health
With the support of the Innovation Fund grant, Sacred Heart University (SHU) and Universidad Rafael Landivar (URL) will develop a community-engaged, student exchange program in global health. The program use the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) model to connect Health Science students from both institutions and engage with them through their study of the global health challenges in the U.S. and Guatemala for a semester. The students will work in teams with local community partners to propose “global health solution” service projects, which they will then implement over the course of one week in each country during summer.