GEM Workforce Training

2026 | Dr. Bhakti Hansoti | Partners: Nikita Boston-Fisher

In March 2026, Bhakti Hansoti, alongside collaborator Nikita Boston-Fisher, led an interactive workshop on Giving Voice to Values (GVV) at the Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference 2026. The workshop was exceptionally well received and brought together global health practitioners, educators, trainees, and leaders to reflect on one of the field’s most pressing challenges: how to uphold personal and professional values in complex global health environments.

The workshop was grounded in the pioneering work of Mary Gentile, whose Giving Voice to Values framework shifts the focus from recognizing ethical dilemmas to developing practical strategies for acting on one’s values effectively. Rather than asking “What is the right thing to do?”, the GVV approach asks “How can we successfully act on the values we already know are important?”

Recognizing that global health spaces are often shaped by difficult ethical, political, institutional, and power dynamics, the workshop created a practical and psychologically safe environment for participants to explore real-world scenarios encountered in international partnerships, research collaborations, humanitarian response, and health systems work. Through role-playing exercises, scripting techniques, facilitated discussion, and application of the GVV curriculum, participants practiced strategies to navigate challenging conversations, advocate for equity and accountability, and strengthen ethical leadership skills.

This innovative educational approach reflects CGEC’s broader commitment to developing thoughtful, values-driven leaders in global emergency care and global health security. Full workshop materials and resources are available online.

2026 | Dr. Bhakti Hansoti | Partners:  Dr. Ben Chi, UJMT

In April 2026, Bhakti Hansoti led an innovative five-day workshop on Reciprocal Innovations for the Fogarty LAUNCH Fellowship Fellows, with Dr. Ben Chi and others from UJMT consortium. The workshop focused on equipping emerging global health researchers with practical implementation science tools to translate evidence-based interventions (EBIs) developed in international settings into new contexts, particularly within the United States healthcare system.

The workshop emphasized the concept of reciprocal innovation — the recognition that transformative healthcare innovations developed globally, particularly in low-resource settings, can offer meaningful solutions to challenges faced in high-resource settings. Participants worked through a structured process to identify globally developed EBIs and systematically assess how they could be adapted and implemented successfully in different healthcare and policy environments.

Throughout the workshop, fellows applied established implementation science frameworks, including Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research and implementation logic models, to guide adaptation, implementation planning, and evaluation. Interactive sessions emphasized systems thinking, formative assessment, stakeholder engagement, and sustainable scale-up strategies.

The workshop reflects CGEC’s broader commitment to advancing implementation science capacity, fostering bidirectional global learning, and strengthening partnerships between domestic and international health systems. CGEC anticipates continued collaboration with the National Institutes of Health and future workshops supporting Fogarty LAUNCH Fellows and global implementation science leaders.