Objectives: Universities provide important contributions to global health. A Global Health Scorecard has been created by the international student network Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) to assess systematically and monitor the contributions of USA, Canadian and British universities. We would like to promote students’ participation and researchers’ responsibility in the UAEM scorecard on a high academic level. Breaking down the complexity of global health to measurable and comparable indicators (as the scorecard does) might be a tool to help future students, researchers and politicians be aware of and understand how these issues affect them!
Description: We propose a scorecard adapted to the German academic context, to be applied to 36 public universities with medical schools. Innovation, access and empowerment are the criteria assessed. These criteria can be assessed with indicators based on quantitative and/or qualitative data (publicly available or obtained from the universities). This workshop contains a brief introduction to the methodologies of existing scorecards, followed by interactive group work on the following issues.
1. Can rankings like the UAEM Scorecard promote improvements in global health research on an academic and political level?
2. Can efforts on global health be assessed and used like this as an effective behavioural instrument?
3. Diversity vs comparability: can scorecards be used to compare national efforts for global health?