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Global

Global CALS (Comprehensive Advanced Life Support) is a program aimed at taking emergency care training to areas of the world that have fewer health care resources.

The idea of a global version of CALS began in Kenya in 2004, and meetings continued until 2009 with the Ministry of Health and various stakeholders. In 2014, interest for CALS in Haiti helped to bring forward a CALS program for the global setting. A collaboration developed between those interested in bringing CALS to Haiti and Kenya, and the project moved forward. 

Healthcare workers from the United States, Kenya, and Haiti converged in Minneapolis in October 2014 for a global CALS launch, and training was conducted for these healthcare workers to become CALS providers and instructors. The group began to develop a new global CALS curriculum, modified for front-line global providers with limited resources. A curriculum committee developed a Global Comprehensive Basic Life Support course as a significant first step, which evolved into the CALS Essentials Course.

See the CALS Essentials Course page for more details about our global program. All other inquiries can be directed to info@calsprogram.org.