GHHG - Global Health and Humanities Gateway Program

The global health humanities gateway (GHHG) is a three-semester entry program that will enable first-year students to incorporate an interdisciplinary sequence of courses into their academic program, helping them achieve a broad, balanced liberal arts education. Global health humanities is an emerging field of study that is working to advance just and ethical health practices and policies around the world. The field seeks to better understand the human experience of health and healthcare by applying critical and analytical tools from the humanities to health-related discourses, practices, and problems. By bringing together the science and human experiences of health, the GHHG will help students develop a holistic view of the status of human health globally.

The GHHG is open to a small group of carefully selected students who are talented, highly motivated, and have demonstrated interest in health, healthcare, and the humanities. The gateway program addresses healthcare workforce needs by building upon the skills that are highly valued in graduates from liberal arts colleges – strong writing and verbal communications skills, and the capacity to think critically and synthesize complex ideas – and is well suited to students with career aspirations in healthcare policy, advocacy, medical research, law, medicine, and other healthcare industry professions.

Applicants to Trinity who are interested can find further information on the website and are welcome to contact the Admissions Office and/or the GHHG co-directors Diana Paulin and Erin Frymire. Interested students must submit an application to the GHHG via their Trinity Common Application. Approximately 14 students are then admitted to the program.