ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at the impacts Cuba and the Philippines are having on the global health landscape. Cuba and the Philippines have situated the training of health care workers as an opportunistic response to a massive global need for health care professionals. The strategies of both countries are seemingly a means of furthering their own national interests while trying to respond to a pressing global demand. Both Cuba and Philippines have positioned their health care workforce to respond to international needs. A cultural acceptance in the global North of Filipino nurses as compassionate caregivers, coupled with modernist economic development strategies to bolster Gross Domestic Product (GDP) through remittance services positioned Filipino nursing schools as fulfilling a global market demand. The Cuban model not only generates much needed revenue for the country, but also strategic political and trade alliances with other countries in the global South.
