E-Learning Portal

GHI’s E-Learning Portal

Welcome to the Global Health Initiative’s (GHI) E-Learning portal landing page! GHI is dedicated to advancing internal and external learning opportunities by investing in well-designed courses and programs, thereby cultivating the global health providers of the future. Our e-learning portal ensures the longevity and dissemination of these rich educational opportunities.

Registration to the portal is automatic once you have attended one of the courses listed below, including the Global Child Health course and the Nursing in Global Health Workshop. If you have not attended either of those courses, please feel free to register using the link to the right, for access to the Global Health Grand Rounds lectures hosted by GHI with many of our local and global partners!

Available Channels:

Challenging the Modus Operandi of Global Health and Development by Vanessa Kerry, M.D., M.Sc
Immigration as Seen from the Border: Stories from the Frontlines by Marsha Griffin, MD, FAAP
Impact of Covid-19 on Health Systems Around the Globe with Guest Speakers from Nigeria, Malawi, Philippines, and Mexico.

And many more!

This exciting Nursing in Global Health workshop put together in partnership by GHI and Children’s Nursing has at its foundation the Emergency Triage Assessment and Training (ETAT) course and builds from there to train attendees in skills needed in global health work.

Visit our workshop webpage for more info

The Global Child Health Course houses 25+ lectures organized around issues central to global health topics and includes a dynamic lineup of presentations and speakers from our CNH GHI leaders and partners from USAID, Save the Children, MSF, JSI, Johns Hopkins University, and more!

The course is open to all, RSVP necessary.

Visit our course page for more info

Visit the E-Learning Portal

Register to the portal for access to lectures hosted by GHI featuring local and global leaders in the Global Health field. Lecture topics include rheumatic heart disease, sickle cell disease, covid-19, and many more!

Example lectures offered in an online format

Newborn Survival

Dr. Leah Greenspan Hodor is board certified in both pediatrics and neonatal medicine, and has extensive experience working in Global Health with a focus on newborn health in Sub Saharan Africa, India, and Haiti. Dr. Greenspan has developed, trained and implemented programs both in the rural and urban settings teaching medical professionals life-saving skills in […]

Nutrition in Global Health

Jeniece Alvey at USAID will be delivering an introduction to nutrition in global health with a focus on immigrant families. Jeniece Alvey currently serves as a Nutrition Advisor at USAID in the Bureau for Global Health, where she contributed to the management of the project SPRING, and is a member of the team for supervising […]

Acute Respiratory Illness

Dr. Kristen Breslin will be leading a case discussion on respiratory illness in resource limited environments. Kristen Breslin, MD, MPH, is an attending in the Divisions of Emergency and Hospitalist Medicine at Children’s National. She received her medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed her pediatric residency at the Boston Combined Residency Program. She […]

Introduction to Global Child Health

Drs. Dami Akani and Stacey Stokes, the Fall 2021 Course Directors, provide a brief introduction to global child health and outline the week ahead. Dr. Stacey Stokes is an attending in the Division of Hospitalist Medicine at Children’s National Hospital. Her global health career has included work in South Africa, Guyana, India and Haiti. Current […]

Refugee Health

When: Tuesday, April 13th, 12:00-1:00pm Credit: 1 CME Dr. Amber Alayyan will be leading this session of refugee health. Watch Dr. Alayyan discuss her experience working with Medicins Sans Frontieres providing care for refugees in Greece.

Malaria Prophylaxis e-Learning

Children’s National’s Dr. Barbara Jantausch will be leading this practicum on malaria prophylaxis. Dr. Jantausch is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist at CNH and a Professor of Pediatrics at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Barbara Jantausch is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Children’s National Hospital and […]

Child Survival

Dr. Troy Jacobs of USAID delivers a lecture on increasing child survival in low resource environments. Dr. Jacobs serves as adjunct faculty in the department of Pediatrics at Children’s National and George Washington University School of Medicine, as well as Senior Medical Advisor for pediatrics in the Office of Maternal-Child Health (MCH) & Nutrition at […]

Emergency Triage and Assessment Training (ETAT) Workshop

Join us for this interactive training session and advance your preparedness and clinical skills for emergency situations in resource limited areas. Led by Dr. Kristen Breslin at CNH. Dr. Kristen Breslin is an attending in the Division of Emergency Medicine at Children’s National. She is a Global Health Faculty Mentor for pediatric residents. She volunteers […]

Case Discussion: Fever

Dr. Mattia Chason leads this case discussion on caring for children with fever in resource limited settings. Dr. Chason is an attending pediatric hospitalist at Children’s National Medical Center for the Mid-Atlantic Kaiser Permanente Medical Group. He recently graduated from the Children’s National Health System Pediatric Residency program and was awarded a certificate in Global […]

Tuberculosis in Children

Join us for a session on an issue central to global health led by Dr. Nathalie Quion. Nathalie Quion, MD, is currently the Medical Director of Children’s Health Center at Adams Morgan and Shaw. She is a faculty member of the Division of General and Community Pediatrics and provides technical support and advocacy to the Community […]