Employment Opportunities and Experiences among Recent Master’s-Level Global Health Graduates

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Abstract

Objectives:

To examine the job search, employment experiences, and job availability of recent global health-focused master’s level graduates.

Methods:

An online survey was conducted from October to December 2016 based out of Washington, DC. The study sample includes students graduating with master’s degrees in global health, public health with a global health concentration or global medicine from eight U.S. universities.

Results:

Out of 256 potential respondents, 152 (59%) completed the survey, with 102/152 (67%) employed. Of unemployed graduates, 38% were currently in another educational training program. Out of 91 employed respondents, 62 (68%) reported they had limitations or gaps in their academic training. The average salary of those employed was between $40,000 and $59,000 annually. The majority of respondents reported they currently work in North America (83.5%.); however, only 31% reported the desire to work in North America following graduation.

Conclusions:

Discrepancies exist between graduates’ expectations of employment in global public health and the eventual job market. Communication between universities, students and employers may assist in curriculum development and job satisfaction for the global public health workforce.

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Dr. William Cherniak:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3001-2400

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Ann Glob Health

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Ann Glob Health

Journal ID (issn): 2214-9996

Title: Annals of Global Health

Publisher: Ubiquity Press

ISSN (Electronic): 2214-9996

Publication date (Electronic, pub): 13 March 2019

Publication date Collection: 2019

Volume: 85

Issue: 1

Electronic Location Identifier: 31

Affiliations

[1 ]University of Toronto, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Division of Emergency Medicine – The Markham-Stouffville Hospital, CA

[2 ]Bridge to Health Medical and Dental, Toronto, CA

[3 ]University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine, US

[4 ]Vanderbilt University, US

[5 ]Child Family Health International, University of California, San Francisco, CA, US

[6 ]Northwestern University, US

[7 ]Public Health Institute, Global Health Fellows Program-II, US

[8 ]University of California, San Francisco, US

[9 ]Oregon Health and Sciences University-Portland State University School of Public Health, Portland, OR, US

Author notes

Corresponding author: Dr. William Cherniak, MD ( w.cherniak@ 123456mail.utoronto.ca )

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Dr. William Cherniak http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3001-2400

Article

DOI: 10.5334/aogh.305

PMC ID: 6634463

PubMed ID: 30873801

SO-VID: 07c5f5a6-7ab9-4a81-b660-3194db32a048

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This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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Funding

This document is authored with support from the Public Health Institute’s Global Health Fellows Program (GHFP) II through Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-A-11-00025, with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Contents are the responsibility of GHFP-II and the Public Health Institute, with the Consortium of Universities for Global Health, and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.