The number of students enrolled in global health programmes at universities across the United States and Canada has doubled since 2006, thanks to growing interest in careers addressing health disparities and disease prevention in developing countries.
These survey findings were released on 14 September by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, an alliance of North American universities formed to organize health projects between universities and developing nations. The survey found that numbers had increased at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level — graduate students increased from 949 in 2006 to 2,010 this year, undergraduates from 1,286 to 2,687.
