A Global REACH Partnership Development Grant awarded last spring has set the stage for a new pediatric ophthalmology fellowship training program in Ghana, that country’s first.
In global health research, where the study takes place matters as much as what the study is about.
An extended partnership agreement between Michigan Medicine and Taiwan’s Chang Gung Memorial Hospital promises to bring select Chang Gung faculty to Ann Arbor for extensive research training.
Sixteen physicians and administrators from Peking University Third Hospital recently became the first to complete a new Global REACH training program for healthcare leaders from overseas.
The first-ever EMERGE conference drew Emergency Medicine professionals from all over the globe to Michigan Medicine and set the stage for an exciting new multinational platform for research and education collaboration in the field.
A medical student’s invention to help newborns in developing countries breathe easier is now in trials and may soon be ready for market.
The first team to be awarded a Faculty-Student Travel Grant from Global REACH launched a pair of research projects in Ethiopia to strengthen ophthalmology training and care there.
The daughter of a Haitian family doctor, Jennifer Severe grew up around medicine. In addition to his work at a charity clinic, her dad frequently saw patients at an office in their family home. He had a guest house where patients who’d traveled from remote areas could stay the night for their appointment.
Anjan Saha leads two separate lives in medical school.
A Joint Institute research collaboration aims to drastically shorten the diagnostic and treatment window for patients with critical sepsis infections.
An Obstetrics and Gynecology resident set to finish her training this summer will remain in Ann Arbor to become Michigan Medicine’s first Global Women’s Health Fellow.
A nascent effort to build a collaborative research network for emergency departments around the world is gaining traction and garnering attention as leaders prepare for a kick-off conference this spring.
NOTE: U-M School of Public Health student Clara Schriemer was the winner of a recent Reflections in Global Health Essay contest sponsored by the Consortium of Universities in Global Health (CUGH). Her piece, "On Toughness and Apathy", garned the top award in the competition's trainee category, and she was invited to read and discuss her
Michigan Medicine faculty have joined forces with two other US institutions to expand anesthesiology training in Ethiopia through live-streamed lectures.
For visiting international student Akshita Gupta, a recent clinical rotation at Michigan Medicine provided everything she was looking for in an elective.
A Michigan Medicine-run training program for visiting hospital administrators from abroad will launch in earnest this year with a visiting group from Peking University Health Science Center (PKUHSC), a longtime partner school in China.
An ongoing project to improve HPV and cervical cancer testing in low-resource settings is ready move out of a U.S. lab and into the field in India.
A hospital in southern India demonstrated significant reductions in the use of antibiotics since partnering with Michigan Medicine faculty on an antibiotic stewardship program.
A UMMS-developed online course focused on helping faculty in teaching hospitals become better instructors is quickly spreading around the world.
A 2018 Nobel Peace Prize winner has long-term collaborations with U-M faculty who are involved in his work treating and advocating for the victims of sexual violence in his country.
