An OB-GYN research faculty member has been awarded a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study Ghanaian women’s contraceptive preferences and how preferences and method-related characteristics are associated with discontinuation.
A new diversity seed grant aims to help UMMS leaders study the cross-cultural acumen of students engaged domestically or internationally in low-resource settings.
A group of hospital administrators from China are the first to complete an extensive leadership training course developed by Global REACH for aspiring healthcare executives from abroad.
Southeast Michigan may seem like an unlikely source of medical equipment for hospitals in the developing world.
The World Health Organization’s next Director-General brings U-M connections and a demonstrated belief in academic partnerships in global health to his new role.
The University of Michigan Medical School’s commitment to global health was on full display during the recent commencement ceremony for the class of 2017.
More than 100 doctors and other healthcare leaders in Kenya got a crash course in clinical research courtesy of some committed partners at the University of Michigan.
A new program promises to bring top science and engineering students from China to earn an advanced degree at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Boa sorte, Elisa!
Translated from the Portuguese, it means “ Good luck, Elisa! ” Elisa Teixeira, who until recently oversaw Global REACH’s Brazil Collaboration Platform, has accepted a faculty position at the University of Brasilia teaching her specialty: translation. She began her first full semester of instruction earlier
Jun Li once studied the entire world’s population by comparing the genomes of nearly 1,000 people from around the globe.
The recent Consortium of Universities in Global Health (CUGH) meeting drew attendees from every part of the world including Ann Arbor, with the University of Michigan well represented among the nearly 2,000 attendees.
Emergency Care in Brazil. Mental health treatment in Ghana. Precision medicine in China. The latest UMMS international partnerships funded through Global REACH touch on many aspects of care and nearly every corner of the world.
Expanding UMMS collaborations in India are focused on combating infectious diseases, particularly those showing increased resistance to antibiotics.
Meredith Hickson may have put medical school on hold for a year, but her education has continued straight through.
A new training partnership is bringing Brazilian doctors to UMMS to learn about end-of-life care.
Already this year, more than 40 medical students have scheduled international electives across more than a dozen countries. Several are slated to speak at the upcoming Global Health Initiatives Forum on March 23, where the focus will be on educational experiences abroad.
A U-M Nursing Professor who teaches healthcare workers to identify and address substance use among patients has been named a Fulbright Scholar.
It might be called Michigan Medicine, but the pursuit is global.
Scholars from two Brazilian universities are spending time at Michigan Medicine to gain expertise on the latest gene-modification techniques.
A new institutional partnership with Taiwan’s Chang Gung Memorial Hospital has produced its first joint research projects.
