UC Global Health Institute
The University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) addresses long-standing and emerging challenges to global health through its education, research and partnership initiatives.
The Institute’s three multi-campus, transdisciplinary Centers of Expertise comprise dozens of faculty across the 10-campus UC system and are harnessing their expertise to address the increasingly complex global health problems and needs of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
Centers of Expertise
Did you know?
- The UCGHI works with the University of California Haiti Initiative (UCHI), a grassroots organization within the UC system dedicated to facilitating the growth or furtherance of partnerships between UC and Haitian institutions for support of reconstruction and development by the people of Haiti.
- The University of California is impacting the health of people around the world through innovative research and initiatives on every UC campus
- The global health sector supports 350,000 high quality jobs in California and $19.7 billion in wages and salaries? UCGHI Economic Impact Report »
- Global health has been named among the top five priorities of the National Institutes of Health and has received a White House commitment of $63 billion over the next six years.
- Student enrollment in global health education programs has doubled nationwide in the past three years alone.
I am proud that California is such a leader in the emerging academic discipline of global health. The formation of the University of California multi-campus Global Health Institute and the efforts undertaken by other universities, nonprofit organizations and the business sector directly impact the health of California and the world.Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
What's New
- UC Global Health Day focuses on population growth
- Patricia Conrad, Director of the One Health Center, Elected to IOM
- 7th Summer Institute on Migration and Global Health
June 25-29, 2012
Los Angeles, California
Call for Proposals - Women’s Health & Empowerment COE Announces Faculty Fellowship Opportunities for Research and Teaching
- Migration & Health COE Announces Faculty Fellowship Opportunity
- Presentation on Project Muso: Evaluating a model for strengthening health systems, reducing time to treatment onset, and improving child survival in Mali
December 8, 2011 - October 2011 Newsletter
- Global Health Profiles:
- Shireen Khalife, MPH Candidate, UC Irvine
- Eva Harris, PhD, UC Berkeley - Global Health Spotlight:
- UCLA Law - Sonke Health & Human Rights Fellowship - Women's Health Rights, New Science, and Institutional Violence conference
November 7, 2011, 12-6:30pm
UCSF - One Health Student Summer Research Fellowships Awarded to Students from Four UC Campuses (see photos, bios and project descriptions)
- M.A.C AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative - now accepting applications from emerging leaders in South Africa
- CUGH and UCGHI host webinar with USAID on April 14, 2011; slides and transcript available
- Physicians, veterinarians learn from each other at first-ever ‘Zoobiquity’ conference (UCLA)
- Migration & Health COE Is Published in FACTS Reports
- Women’s Health & Empowerment COE Receives Fogarty Grant
- News & Events »
Multimedia
Bats, Frogs, and Fungi: Understanding the Ecology of Emerging Diseases in Wildlife and People
Disease Resurgence From Climactic and Ecological Change
Tijuana Clinic Trains New Generation Of Border DoctorsFor Students
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