Global Health Resources

An impactful discussion paper addressing the critical global health care workforce shortage, this report offers real-world insights, case studies and a framework for Catholic health leaders to reshape international recruitment practices and enhance global health care capacity.

This CHA resource offers Catholic health ministry leaders and others who participate in global health projects six Guiding Principles for Conducting Global Health Activities.Offering a modern-day parable and Guiding Principles, this resource brings to life the richness of Catholic social teaching and tradition and inspires excellence and partnership in global health activities.

This booklet is a resource for persons selected as volunteers for mission trips to low- and middle-income countries to help them reflect on the overall experience. Designed for individual or group use, its contents lead users through discerning participation, preparation for a trip, arrival, the days of the experience, leaving, re-entering normal life and remembering and remaining rooted in the experience. Each of its six sections includes questions for reflection, spiritual exercises, sources for additional information and inspirational quotes and poems. It also includes plenty of journaling.

This video highlights the "call" to participate in the ministry of Catholic health care and, specifically, international outreach.

This video explores the Biblical story of the Good Samaritan through a theological reflection that relates to today’s realities, particularly in international outreach.

This book shares 20 Recommendations for Practice that Catholic health care leaders should use to review current and to consider future short-term medical mission trips. They are based on the Phase I and Phase II short-term medical mission trip research. 

This book contains the detailed question-by-question survey results from Phase I and Phase II of CHA's 2014-2015 research project on short-term medical mission trips.

CHA has developed an online orientation program with four modules for use by those who lead and participate in short-term international mission trips.

This is a sample PowerPoint presentation for your use as an educational tool to help you develop an orientation process for participants on your medical mission trips. It is designed for you to customize to suit the needs of your program — adding or deleting slides where you deem appropriate.

This 18-page report presents findings from a 2010 study of how CHA-member organizations can alleviate human suffering in the developing world through a responsible medical surplus donation program. The report also highlights medical supply and recovery organizations that collect and distribute surplus and offers preliminary guidelines for working effectively with these organizations.

This guide offers Catholic health care leaders tools for assessing the practices and effectiveness of surplus recovery organizations (MSROs). Based on the ground-breaking 2010 study of Medical Surplus Donation, this booklet and accompanying online tools provide assessment questions and information leadership can use to assure their organizations medical surplus donations are made appropriately and effectively by an MSRO. (Includes an electronic assessment dashboard tool) This booklet is a guide for assessing the practices and effectiveness of Medical Surplus Recovery Organizations.

This video highlights the case for appropriate donations.

This resource shares the findings of a 2012 research study to determine high-impact leading practices every hospital and/or health system should adopt when starting or enhancing a medical surplus recovery program. While not prescriptive, we believe these practices will help fulfill the mission of our collective global outreach efforts — answering God's call to foster health, act with compassion and promote wellness for all persons and communities, with special attention to our neighbors who are poor, underserved and most vulnerable.

Developed with assistance from Catholic Relief Services and Catholic Charities USA, this CHA brochure provides ministry leaders with considerations for how health care organizations can appropriately respond in times of domestic or international disaster.

Video Case Studies to Open Dialogues in Catholic Health Ministry

Video Case Studies to Open Dialogues in Catholic Health Ministry

CHA has developed several video case studies on topics related to global health and medical surplus recovery. Meant to open conversations and to illuminate some of the feedback from CHA's research on surplus recovery and short-term medical mission trips, they shed an ethical light on practices and some of the mentality behind a desire to serve to do to good for others.

Video Case Studies to Open Dialogues in Catholic Health Ministry

Video Case Studies to Open Dialogues in Catholic Health Ministry