Introduction: The university competes for social responsibility in a context affected by poor socioeconomic behaviors, weak productive and competitive capacity, with social problems that reflect its multifactoriality in health care, leading the creation of a multidisciplinary master's degree through a feasibility study that responds to global challenges such as intercultural dialogue, public health, climate change, food security, natural resource management, among others, that promotes the development of critical, creative and innovative thinking with citizen responsibility, ethics and fosters citizen culture. Objective: To analyze training needs and educational trends that support differentiating features for the master's degree to be offered for global health. Methodology: holistic research with a qualitative-quantitative approach, with documentary review and interview Results: Elements that characterized training components emerge, meaning two categories plants, care of life and sustainability as an object of study. Key words: social problems, trait, education, sustainability, global health