The breakthrough at UMB occurred when a small
number of these individuals collaborated to apply for
a “Framework Program for Global Health” grant from
the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Fogarty International
Center which was awarded in 2005. The initial
small group expanded to include other individuals
from each of the six professional schools on our campus
and eventually became formalized as the Global Health
Interprofessional Council (GHIC). As suggested by
organizational learning theory, most of the ideas for
interprofessional global health education eventually
implemented at UMB were discussed first and worked
through in this small group before being shared with
other schools or the university administration. Over
the past eight years, GHIC has advocated effectively for
interprofessional global health education within our
university system and in so doing has led UMB into
the institutionalization stage. The President of UMB
and many of the deans of its professional schools have
become committed to expanding global health educational
opportunities for students. The UMB Strategic
Plan identified global health education as an important
goal in 2013. More recently, a Student Center for Global
Education and a Center for Global Education Initiatives
have been created by the university. GHIC has organized