Global Health and Social Responsibility
Care Beyond Borders
Healthcare spans regions, cultures, and systems in ways it never has before. A global mindset and a commitment to community partnership prepares you to lead with confidence and humility, and provide outstanding care wherever it’s needed.
How This Work Shapes Your Learning
Care looks different when you see the full picture
You start to notice what defines health — the distance to the nearest clinic, the cost of a prescription, the history that influences trust. A broader perspective changes how you think about your role and how you deliver care.
Trust Builds Through Consistency
When you listen to a local nurse explain how they make supplies last or a community leader shares their stories, you learn that care is built alongside the people who know it best. And that trust is built in small moments.
Learning When Things Don’t Go as Planned
A power outage during a clinic or a plan that changes mid-shift shows what it means to provide care through uncertainty. At Emory, you learn how to stay centered, make decisions and keep care moving — a foundation for confident and compassionate leadership.
Turning Service Into Practice
Through service learning, students and faculty work alongside community partners to provide clinical care and health education in Georgia and across the world, including the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic, Peru, and more.
Caring for Georgia’s Farmworkers
Our focus on global health includes our local communities. Each summer, students and faculty provide essential health services to farmworkers in rural Georgia. For more than 30 years, the program has served more than 15,000 workers and their families.
Exploring Modern and Traditional Care in Yucatan, Mexico
Immersed in the language, culture, and health care system of Mexico, students deliver care to diverse patient populations in Yucatan through our partnership with the Autonomous University of Yucatan.
How This Work Changes You
Partner Organizations
Clients Served
Community Partner Grants
Learn To Lead With Impact
We believe nursing excellence is built on connection and collaboration. Discover how the Emory School of Nursing can prepare you to lead with impact through our unmatched clinical and educational experiences.