TY - JOUR T1 - Capturing Acquired Wisdom, Enabling Healthful Aging, and Building Multinational Partnerships Through Senior Global Health Mentorship JF - Global Health: Science and Practice JO - GLOB HEALTH SCI PRACT SP - 626 LP - 637 DO - 10.9745/GHSP-D-20-00108 VL - 8 IS - 4 AU - C. Norman Coleman AU - John E. Wong AU - Eugenia Wendling AU - Mary Gospodarowicz AU - Donna O’Brien AU - Taofeeq Abdallah Ige AU - Simeon Chinedu Aruah AU - David A. Pistenmaa AU - Ugo Amaldi AU - Onyi-Onyinye Balogun AU - Harmar D. Brereton AU - Silvia Formenti AU - Kristen Schroeder AU - Nelson Chao AU - Surbhi Grover AU - Stephen M. Hahn AU - James Metz AU - Lawrence Roth AU - Manjit Dosanjh Y1 - 2020/12/23 UR - http://www.ghspjournal.org/content/8/4/626.abstract N2 - Key MessagesCapturing the acquired wisdom and experience of mentors in global health offers a capstone for their careers and provides a purposeful healthspan for these professionals to continue to be engaged in meaningful work while leveraging their expertise to solve challenging health care problems.Senior professionals can mentor early career leaders to help them balance their professional commitments, interest in global health, and development of needed skills, such as understanding the nuances of cultural competence and adapting solutions to different environments.Institutional leaders, particularly in academic medical centers, recognize the importance of global engagement vis-à-vis their educational mission and for recruiting and retaining faculty and can benefit economically and programmatically from supporting experienced senior faculty or retirees to support these efforts.Program builders should include the opportunity for altruistic human service as an integral part of a career and highlight that they can access senior mentors and retirees who provide world-class expertise and mentorship at “volunteer prices.”An opportunity to have a substantial impact on multiple challenging societal problems exists in simultaneously addressing the following: (a) the urgent need for sustainable health care; (b) the importance of mentorship in enabling the emergence of new generations of leaders; (c) the essential need for cross-cultural competency1 to address global crises through problem solving across societal boundaries; and (d) options for continued productivity by the increasing number of older people. Sustainable health care needs to build on cancer care, which requires urgent intervention and encompasses noncommunicable and infectious diseases in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) and geographically isolated populations in high-income countries (HICs). Capacity building to meet the cancer care gap, which builds sustainable infrastructure for overall health care and economic development, can be done through twinning programs that engage senior health care professionals in meaningful mentoring roles. As the capstone of a … ER -