Objectives

• Understand what pathologists in high income countries can contribute to closing the gap of care for patients in low-and middle-income countries

To Do List:

• Listen to assigned podcast episodes

• Read reading assignments

• Answer study questions

Reading assignments

• Meet a pathologist who has worked all around the world contributing to healthcare capacity building

• Meet a pathologist’s assistant who routinely works with a lab in Uganda

• A great example of laboratory development: Sustainable Development of Pathology in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Example From Ghana

Assigned Podcast Episode

Study Questions:

• Think back to the article you read in the last lesson “Proceedings of the African Pathologists Summit; March 22–23, 2013; Dakar, Senegal” - Think about the section named “Challenges With Potential to Discourage the Growth and Sustenance of Pathology”. Imagine you are a pathologist in a high-income country, what could you do to help ameliorate these differences? 

• In this lesson, you are introduced to multiple people working in pathology and global health, take time to summarize their contributions.

• After listening to the interview from the assigned podcast and drawing on what you’ve read and heard elsewhere in the course, summarize what/how pathology and laboratory medicine contributes to global health security.