e-Bulletin July 2026
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Inaugural Global Health Educators Alliance Dialogue Workshop
Putting Students at the Table for Global Health’s Future
This June, world-leading voices in global health education gathered at HKU’s historic Main Building to shape the future of the field.
The Global Health Educators Alliance (GHEA) launched its first-ever workshop, sponsored by the Cyrus Tang Foundation and co-hosted by Professor Jennifer Bouey at Georgetown University and Professor David Bishai at our School. Faculty representatives from Georgetown University, HKU, and China’s elite C9 universities including Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Fudan University, packed two days of discussion into one urgent question: how can the world’s two largest higher education systems join forces to train the next generation of global health leaders?
Delegates left with a clear consensus. They recognised that their combined disciplinary breadth and professional expertise could be channelled into concrete action: co-developing shared case studies, drawing in diverse funding and top international talent, and forging China–US partnerships that place students directly in communities across the developing world.
The payoff will be hands-on, cross-cultural fieldwork. The next moves are already taking shape: a shared case-study repository built by the consortium, new funding pipelines, and expanded partner networks designed to send students into local communities worldwide to practise the skills that keep populations healthy.
By partnering with this alliance, HKU places its faculty and students at the forefront of shaping the future of global health.
