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Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment COE sparks collaboration in the name of #MeToo
July 3, 2018
Collaborators at UC Santa Barbara are enhancing anti-harassment efforts and education on campus.
UC San Diego launches new Center for Anti-Parasitic Drug Discovery and Development
June 29, 2018
Interdisciplinary research team to address neglected tropical diseases that may become more common with climate change.
The challenges of health care in remote Madagascar
June 29, 2018
Hailey Reeves, IGHS master’s student, reports back from her time in the Androrangavola commune in the Ifanadiana district of Madagascar.
Sifuentez appointed to head Center for Humanities
June 29, 2018
UC Merced's Center for Humanities gets a new, global-minded director.
Turning a phage
June 25, 2018
Partnering with multiple institutions, UC San Diego launches North America’s first bacteriophage therapy center to use viruses as new weapon against multidrug-resistant bacteria; clinical trials planned.
Development Impact Lab conference speaks to future of engineering for poverty solutions
June 25, 2018
The Blum Center at UC Berkeley inspires the future of engineering as a solution to global health challenges.
Rhesus macaque model offers route to study Zika brain pathology
June 25, 2018
The UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and collaborators find a way to potentially test therapies for congenital Zika virus syndrome.
The long-lasting health effects of separating children from their parents at the US border
June 25, 2018
UCLA pediatrician, Elizabeth Barnert, helps explain the long-term consequences of family separation.
Understanding the relationship between livestock, snakes and livelihoods in Costa Rica
June 25, 2018
Andrea Nickerson, UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences master’s student, is researching how snakebite envenomation in livestock impacts farmer’s lives.
Peering into Tb bacteria that attacks antibiotics
June 25, 2018
An international team of researchers including those from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has found a new way to investigate how tuberculosis bacteria inactivates an important family of antibiotics.
New planetary health case studies are available now
June 18, 2018
The Planetary Health COE released three new web-based interactive case studies, adding to the growing library of cases available to educators and students.
UC Merced graduate student awarded thesis of the year for work in public health
June 11, 2018
Erendira “Dida” Estrada's master’s thesis explores a health communication intervention to reduce rural information inequality and health disparities.
Why I stopped charging my patients for consultations
June 11, 2018
UCSF PhD Student Mohamed Bailor Barrie discusses his experience as a doctor during Sierra Leone's civil war.
Immigrant policing and public health
June 11, 2018
UCI study finds intense immigrant policing practices corrode Latinos’ trust in the government as a source of health information.
The trafficking victim beside me
June 11, 2018
Paula Tavrow, of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, shares a personal story.
Training the next generation of One Health professionals
June 11, 2018
With One Health Programs on the rise, UC Davis researchers propose core standards.
Fighting poverty with big data: A conversation with Joshua Blumenstock
June 11, 2018
UC Berkeley's Joshua Blumenstock explores how machine learning, development economics and big data can help us better understand the causes and consequences of global poverty.
No summer rest as UC students eye global health abroad, at home
June 5, 2018
Four UC students talk about their summer global health experiences in Thailand, Ghana, Mexico and California's Central Valley.
PHCOE launches International Student Ambassador Program
June 1, 2018
Nine candidates from eight African countries will design and implement initiatives that address major planetary health challenges in their home countries.
Online global health courses supplement campus offerings
June 1, 2018
UCGHI’s online global health courses cover a variety of topics and are available to all UC students.
Call for student ambassadors in Planetary Health
May 25, 2018
The Planetary Health COE is seeking students from all UC campuses to participate as student ambassadors.
Goosby to collaborate on $94 million USAID STAR Award to PIH
May 23, 2018
This five year project improves the technical capacity of emerging global health leaders and creates sustainable partnerships for open exchange.
Global TIES team earns honors for solar lantern project
May 23, 2018
Undergraduate students from UC San Diego designed and built an affordable solar-powered lantern to provide light, and income, to a partner village in the Philippines.
International partners receive funding to study sexual violence
May 22, 2018
The Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment COE supports four international campus-based violence prevention research projects.
Research offers new insights into malaria parasite
May 18, 2018
UC Riverside’s Karine Le Roch has received a new NIH grant of $3.2 million to continue work on Plasmodium falciparum.
New Fulbright awards strengthen campus study abroad initiatives
May 18, 2018
Two staff members in UC Merced’s Office of International Affairs have earned Fulbright awards that will help the campus expand and develop study-abroad opportunities for students.
Lab-confirmed prenatal exposure to Zika is linked to cardiac defects in infants
May 18, 2018
UCLA researchers find evidence that infants with laboratory confirmation of Zika exposure before birth have a higher prevalence of major cardiac defects.
Dr. Haile T. Debas on making a contribution to underdeveloped countries In Africa
May 15, 2018
On this edition of In Black America, Debas talks about being a physician, researcher, teacher and academic leader.
Global Programs Offices strengthen UC researchers’ work in Africa
May 15, 2018
Offices abroad provide UC researchers with financial management, procurement, logistics and compliance services, as well as local technical expertise.
Back at UC, but still having global impact
May 14, 2018
Former GloCal fellow and current UC Riverside professor, Jennifer Syvertsen, reflects on her mentors, work in Kenya and plans for the future.