The hospital works with Luke International (LIN) in the area of global health developments since 2008 and the OGHP program was initiated in 2011. The OGHP program executive team has clinical, medical, public health, health informatics and global development specialists. The OGHP program has local (Taiwan) and international (Africa) trainings and requires at least 4 weeks field works in Africa.

The OGHP program enrolled medical interns, public health graduate and undergraduate students from National Taiwan University and National Yangming University since 2011. International universities are also participating in the OGHP program through LIN’s partnership. OGHP program partner universities include Universities from Norway, USA, UK and Japan.

The OGHP program was selected as a case for Good Practice in Global Health Practicum and recommended by APRU
(Withers, M., Li, M., Manalo, G. et al. J Community Health (2018) 43: 467. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-017-0439-z)

The program has trained 136 interns/students from local and international universities.