LAUSR

As editors of journals concerned with health professions education, we take very seriously the influence of our published articles on curriculum development, learner assessment and, ultimately, the quality of health care provided to our communities. As members of the International Editors Group of Health Professions Education Journals, we routinely gather at international meetings to share new ideas, voice concerns and provide support to each other as we grapple with financial, logistical, technical and political challenges faced by our journals. It is therefore appropriate that we clearly communicate our concerns about increasing risks related to current regulations and attitudes affecting international travel, global meetings and global health. As a community of scholars we must reach out to each other, challenge ideas, and identify the most effective and creative approaches regarding how healthcare education can facilitate better health. Doing so benefits all of us, rich or poor, regardless of race, ethnicity, and language, country of residence or cultural values. Disease knows no borders. While health systems, medical knowledge, skills, and medications evolve in response to our unique local conditions, we never know when something in one of our countries will become important (maybe even life-saving) in another.