Global Health Nursing
Journal Club Resources
Introduction:
Traditionally, journal clubs engage medical professionals around common interest areas to improve practice. While journal clubs are more commonly found in the clinical setting across various health care disciplines, there is growing interest in global health nursing at colleges and universities in the United States.
Anticipating that more nurses will become academically prepared in a global health nursing discipline, this tool was created to encourage students, faculty and others to coordinate or participate in a global health journal club.
Learning through interactive discussion provides opportunity to explore global health topics and research such as methodology and design.
Journal clubs can aid in the growth and development of our future global health nurse leaders.
Organization of Resource:
The resource is listed by region, followed by articles on nurse-lead journal clubs, ideas for discussion, and ending with a list of books on global health nursing. Please notify GHDonline if you start a new global health nursing journal club, we would like to add your group to our list.
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Asia
Phnom Penh, Cambodia – Sihanouk Hospital Center of Hope (SHCH)
Overview: Nursing education program lead by nurse volunteers who provide lectures and clinical instruction to Cambodian nurses at SHCH. Volunteers also lead journal club discussions.
Australia
University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney - GlobalHealth@UNSW
Global Health Journal Club
Overview: The Global Health Journal Club provides a forum for discussing new publications and reports on current and emerging topics in Global Health. The sessions are well attended, with researchers and students alike from a multitude of disciplines gathering to debate and discuss current and contentious issues across the broad spectrum of Global Health.
Participants: All students, staff and interested visitors are welcome to attend.
Past discussions:Not specified
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Canada
University of British Columbia’s Center for International Health
The Global Health Journal Club (GHJC)
Overview: The GHJC is an interdisciplinary discussion format covering research initiatives, methods, approaches, and findings.
Participants: Students, faculty and staff.
Past discussions: Vulnerable populations and global health: focus on India and Ethics of international service learning. For a complete list of past journal discussion topics with references, go to
United States
Duke University’s Duke Global Health Institute
Global Health Journal Club
Overview: The journal club is an interdisciplinary discussion format covering research policy, current events, initiatives, methods and findings.
Participants: Students, faculty, staff, residents, postdoctoral fellows, trainees, and students.
Past discussions: None available
Oregon Health & Science University - Global Health Alliance
Journal Club
Participants: Students
Past discussions: None available, however, the site offers an extensive list of global health books at
UCLA Program in Global Health
Global AIDS/Tropical Medicine Journal Club
Overview:UCLA Program in Global Health launched its Global AIDS/Tropical Medicine Journal Club in 2005. Monthly journal club meetings focus on topics relevant to international health, HIV/AIDS, and other infectious diseases.
Participants: Southern Californians who are working in or interested in a wide variety of global health disciplines. Attendees typically include MDs, residents, medical students, and postdoctoral fellows from UCLA and other Los Angeles-area medical centers; faculty and students with an interest in global health from schools of medicine, public health, public policy, law, and others; as well as members of NGOs and other groups working in developing countries.
Past discussions: International HIV prevention research, global malnutrition, scale-up of antiretroviral therapy in Africa, and tuberculosis and TB vaccine studies.
University of Colorado, Denver – Center for Global Health
Global Health Journal Club
Participants: Not specified, however the Center for Global Health program approaches global health from various perspectives and disciplines, and may include international affairs, anthropology, business, biology, social work, environmental sciences, economics, public health and health policy, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, dentistry, history, political science and sociology.
Past discussions: US health aid beyond PEPFAR and maternal and child under nutrition
University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health Global Health Interest Group
Global Health Journal Club
Group email:
Overview: Interdisciplinary discussion format.
Participants: Students from any background of training from the University and those interested in global health from the greater Chicago area. Anyone is welcome.
Past discussions: Detecting, Preventing, and Treating Sexually Transmitted Diseases Among Adolescent Arrestees: An Unmet Public Health Need.
University of Maryland, School of Nursing
Nurses for Global Health Journal Club
Overview: Nursing focused discussions on related global health topics. Selections based on faculty research and other prominent areas specific to social justice, health disparities and human rights.
Participants: Students, faculty and others interested in global health nursing.
Past discussions: QualityoflifeintheHIV positivepatient:implicationsandconsequences
Recent Articles on Nursing Journal Clubs
- Using an Interactive Journal Club to Enhance Nursing Research Knowledge Acquisition, Appraisal, and Application.
2.Nursing Journal Clubs: How to Develop and Achieve Success with Your Efforts
3.Join the Club! Strategies for Successful Journal Club Development.
- Can a journal club bridge the gap between research and practice?
Getting Started…Journal Articles to Consider for a Global Health Nursing Journal Club
- Smith. B. A., (2006). The Role of Nursing Leaders in Global Health Issues and Global Health Policy
Nursing Outlook, Volume 54, Issue 6, Pages 309-310. - Integration of global health concepts in nursing curricula: a national study.
- Global Health: Nurses Taking a Leadership Role in the Global Community.
- Flynn, L., & Aiken, L.H. (2002). Does international nurse recruitment influence practice values in U.S. hospitals? Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 34(1), 67-73.
Global Health Nursing Books
- Nurse – A world of care (2008) by Peter Jaret, Karen Kasmauski, and Marla Salmon. Emory University Press.
- Hospital at the end of the world. (2009) by Joe Niemczura
Other Resources
Blogs about: Global Health Journal Club
10/1/09 - L.Hassan, UMB_SON_Nurses for Global Health