Impressions of the Indiana Global Health Research Conference: An Editor's Account

摘要

As the editor for this supplement, I drove down from Milwaukee to the meeting in Turkey Run State Park, located west of Indianapolis, and participated in the small groups and conducted interviews with various participants. Interviewees were either nominated by the meeting organizers, were presenters at the meeting or were selected by happenstance during the process of attending the meeting. As editor, I also reviewed all the supplement articles. I am not personally involved in global health research and came to the meeting with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I fully understand the allure of "going far foreign and seeing new countries."1 After residency, my initial 3-year tour of duty as an Army Captain was in Nuremburg, Germany. Later, while stationed at Walter Reed, I frequently served as "trip doctor" for congressional delegations, and whenever possible, tried to speak with local providers about their healthcare systems. I've published articles contrasting the American healthcare system with the German and Dutch systems, and have served as visiting Professor to the Otowa Clinic in Kyoto Japan on two different occasions.