The reasons for giving more attention to global health education go well beyond the needs of the developing (and usually poor) countries. The U.S., Canada and other industrialized countries have large disadvantaged, multi-cultural and foreign-born populations whose needs are often ill met by health workers trained in traditional ways. Moreover, only a relatively small percentage of the students who take courses in global health and/or go overseas during training will spend a substantial portion of their professional career overseas. Global health education can therefore offer dual benefit: providing a minority of highly motivated students with the expertise for career work overseas, and a much larger number who will be called upon to provide high quality, culturally sensitive services here at home.