Before last summer, Mark Peterson had never worked with anyone in China. The Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation didn’t even have any professional connections there.
Cameroon is the latest nation where a University of Michigan-developed OB/GYN training program has taken root, part of broader effort to confront maternal and infant mortality across Sub-Saharan Africa.
Newly created professorships in the School of Public Health recognize faculty who’ve worked extensively on global public health issues.
New international collaborations in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care are likely to emerge from the recent UM-Brazil Symposium held in São Paulo.
A group of UMMS gastroenterology physicians is using lessons and best practices from U-M’s fellowship programs to train much-needed GI specialists in Ethiopia.
A $10 problem doesn’t need a $1,000 solution.
A research training initiative in partnership with the Peking University Health Science Center (PUHSC) has welcomed its newest student from China.
A handful of faculty who hail from Macedonia are working to build partnerships and improve healthcare in their home country.
A longtime U-M doctor specializing in gerontology is now helping to improve elder care programs in Southeast Asia, where he has been appointed a visiting professor at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at the National University of Singapore.
A career in global health can be found on the other side of the world or right in your own backyard.
It was inside-the-box thinking that led a multi-disciplinary University of Michigan team to reimagine a shipping container as an ophthalmology clinic in Jamaica.
Good science transcends culture, language and distance, as it did last month during an annual symposium that attracted a large group of China’s top physician scientists to the University of Michigan Health System.
The Global Engagement and Education Abroad Office (GEEA) provides programming that brings the global local by engaging international and domestic students and by providing comprehensive education abroad advising and activities. In this newsletter we will provide information on upcoming events and announcements from our office and beyond.
Despite advancements in recent years, giving birth remains a dangerous proposition for too many mothers in too many places. That’s according to a new global maternal health series published in The Lancet by an international group of leading experts in the field, including one U-M researcher.
Flint’s water crisis will be the focus of an annual event held in memory of a late UMMS student and health equities advocate.
The Kellogg Eye Center is preparing to host its annual International Night, an opportunity for medical students to learn about international elective opportunities and meet faculty members involved in global health work.
Two medical students were able to see a new part of the world this summer even as they helped the world to see better.
The Center for Human Growth & Development Announces the MHIRT Program Call for Applications The Minority Health & Health Disparities International Research Training Program (MHIRT) is funded by the National Institutes of Health.
Eight new research projects have been selected for the most recent round of funding through the University of Michigan Health System's Joint Institute partnership with Peking University Health Science Center (PUHSC).
