As noted above, UMSON had no global health educational
program in 2005. There has been remarkable
change over the past decade and now, in 2014,
UMSON has an Office of Global Health which coordinates
an educational program that includes global
health courses, a post-masters global health certificate
program, a number of strong educational partnerships
around the world, and a program of funded
interventions that focus on strengthening nursing
capacity in resource limited settings through innovative
educational strategies. We have also experienced
the organizational learning cycle of developing global
health educational capabilities that was described for
the university. Key individuals initially explored and
interpreted global health possibilities, which were
taken up by groups of faculty and students, and eventually
implemented at the organizational level. This
organizational learning cycle has been repeated again
and again as we have adopted new innovations that
subsequently become part of our organizational capabilities
and routine practice.