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Global Challenges Teaching Award - Health Inequality

The Global Challenges Teaching Award in Health Inequality supports a pair of teaching faculty – one at a US higher education institution (HEI) and one at a UK HEI – to collaboratively deliver a virtual exchange programme addressing the critical themes of good health, wellbeing, and health inequality.

Stark health inequalities continue to perpetuate disparities in achieving good health and wellbeing for all.

Do you teach an undergraduate class at a US or UK HEI that tackles pressing questions related to health, wellbeing, and health inequality? Discover how this award can expand the impact of your teaching by adapting one of your existing courses for co-teaching with an international counterpart. 

United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3 focuses on ensuring healthy lives and promoting wellbeing for all at all ages. Achieving this requires bold action to combat health inequalities on local, national, and global levels. The Covid-19 pandemic exposed and exacerbated these disparities, disproportionately impacting marginalized communities. As we work toward healthier, more equitable societies, we need leaders who are empowered to enact inclusive and transformative change.  

The Global Challenges Teaching Award – Health Inequality provides a unique opportunity for faculty in the US and UK to co-develop and co-teach a virtual exchange program that empowers students to explore and address the multifaceted challenges of health inequality.  

Applications are welcomed from all disciplines that align with the UN Sustainable Development Goal 3 (Good Health and Wellbeing).

Applicants should outline how their proposed module directly addresses the challenge of health inequality in achieving good health and wellbeing, and how it empowers students to address the wide-ranging and intersectional impacts of this challenge.

Priority Topics

We are particularly interested in applications that explore...

  • Public health inequalities on a local, national, and global scale
  • Causes and impacts of health inequality, including the intersections with ethnicity, gender, sexual identity, disability, and neurodivergence
  • Mental health and wellbeing
  • Aging, and health inequality during later life
  • Children and young people’s access to healthcare
  • Creative and community approaches to health and tackling health inequality. 

Eligibility Requirements

To apply, you must:

  • Currently teach an undergraduate class that relates to health inequality. 
  • Have the support of your home institution to adapt and co-teach this course as a virtual exchange.

Please note: Rather than creating a new course from scratch, applicants will adapt an existing course they currently teach. Co-teaching with your US or UK counterpart will take place virtually.

Award Benefits

A successful application will receive:

  • Honorarium: $7000/£5510 for the awardee (faculty member). This can be spent however faculty see fit. The honorarium will be paid out in two payments.
  • Institutional Support Fee: $3000/£2360 for the awardee’s higher education institution, payable upon completion of the professional development programme.
  • Travel Funding: Up to $7500/£5900 for the awardee and one administrative staff member to visit their partner institution in the US or UK.
  • Professional Development and Mentoring: Tailored COIL-modelled blended professional development and customized mentoring led by VE/COIL experts from AAC&U, designed for teaching faculty, instructional designers, and academic administrators.    

Visit our Global Challenges Teaching Awards page

to find out how to apply.

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