PERSPECTIVE article
Front. Public Health
Sec. Public Health Education and Promotion
Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1584880
Strengthening Global Health Education in the UAE: assessing the current landscape and future directions
Provisionally accepted
- 1Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 2Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- 3Health Services Management Centre (HSMC), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
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Global health is a growing area of interest for the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Given its location in the Middle East and its geographical proximity to developing sub-Saharan countries, the country is in a strategic position to contribute to global health agendas. Yet despite an increasing emphasis on global health policy, the availability of global health education programs at UAE universities remains limited. The aim of this Perspective is to raise awareness and understanding about the importance of the issue. Reflecting on the current landscape, it argues that it is crucial for higher education institutions in the UAE to better integrate global health into their curricula. The Perspective calls for a greater focus on curricula design, along with a further emphasis on collaboration and capacity building between universities and global health institutions to further strengthen this educational foundation.
Keywords: global healh, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Education, Capacity Building, knowledge exchange
Received: 27 Feb 2025; Accepted: 29 May 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Artaman, Bekele and Millar. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Ross Millar, Health Services Management Centre (HSMC), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2RT, England, United Kingdom
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