The pace of globalization and the resultant profound impacts on population health in all parts of the world demand that greater attention be paid to global perspectives in the training of public health professionals.1 In efforts to expose master's of public health (MPH) students to global health perspectives, schools of public health have offered elective overview courses in global health and/or sought to infuse global content across the public health curriculum by globalizing the curriculum.2 While overview courses may be criticized for lacking cohesion and failing to provide opportunities for the development of higher-level competencies, globalizing the curriculum is, we believe, almost always an incremental process, as faculty trained in traditional public health disciplines currently often lack global perspective, expertise, and experience.
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