The focus of the current issue—global health—highlights not only the challenges that are prevalent in parts of the developing world, but also parallel challenges here at home. For example, the work we do in Zambia, where the School of Medicine has a number of well-established partnerships, sheds light on problems we confront in Alabama with our largely rural population and related health disparities.

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