7 Leadership Practices

Leaders for global health equity require a strong set of competencies. To address the world’s biggest challenges, we need a workforce of collaborative, empathetic, and strategic changemakers.

We identified the following seven leadership practices, with influential guidance from our groundbreaking grassroots partners, as the most important qualities and abilities for health equity leaders to have. Using the input of the on-the-ground experts in global health, GlobeMed programming centered on creating experiential opportunities for students to use these practices.

Dig deep

To understand systems and their root causes, we approach ourselves, our communities, and the world with openness, curiosity, and humility.

See possibility

In the process of radical re-imagination, we recognize the strengths, abilities, and opportunities to grow in ourselves and our community.

Grow together

We accompany each other, especially those most impacted, as we find our place in a diverse global movement that inspires, challenges, and sustains us.

Be brave

We put our shared vision in front of ego and fear, seize opportunities to grow through challenge, and do what is necessary to reach our collective goals.

Follow through

We keep our commitments to ourselves and each other and act with the highest levels of integrity and accountability.

Build sustainably

For us all to truly thrive in the long term, we care for ourselves, our relationships, and our community so that we can collectively build towards a future vision of equity.

Cultivate belonging

We build our movement as a space that celebrates our whole, authentic selves, recognizes the inherent value of every person, and is accountable for repairing harm. 

These 7 Leadership Practices were what guided our evaluation. Together with GlobeMed students, in a participatory evaluation design process, we identified three skills that corresponded to each skill. Of those three skills, one was related to each of the learning areas: understanding self and the world, building relationships with others, and taking collection action.