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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 health inequality and fostering good health and wellbeing for all.

Stark health inequalities continue to perpetuate disparities in healthcare and healthy living.

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 tackling health inequalities, ensuring access to healthcare, and promoting good health and wellbeing for all at all ages. Achieving global health resilience requires bold action to combat health inequalities, and the intersectional social inequities that cause them, on local, national, and global levels.  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 class 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 especially interested in applications that explore:  

  • Public health inequalities on a local, national, and global scale,
  • Causes and impacts of health inequality, including intersections with socioeconomic status, geography, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, sexual identity, disability, and neurodivergence.
  • Sexual and reproductive healthcare, including maternal healthcare, access to reproductive healthcare, health education.
  • Mental health and wellbeing, including harm reduction and substance abuse, promotion of mental health, and community approaches to wellbeing and good health.
  • Ageing, including health inequalities in later life, wellbeing and loneliness, and access to healthcare. 

Eligibility requirements

To apply, you must:

  • Currently teach an undergraduate class that addresses health, wellbeing, and 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 their institutional team to visit their partner institution in the US or UK.
  • Professional development and mentoring: Professional development and mentoring to support teaching faculty, instructional designer and academic administrators in developing their virtual exchange course and embedding COIL into their institutions.    

Visit our Global Challenges Teaching Awards page