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September 16, 2024

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Refugees reclaim human rights with technology

Research internship opportunity: Campus violence prevention

Shrinking Groundwater

Many gains in fight against HIV, but epidemic is far from over

Fogarty Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars seeks event coordinator

Call for nominations for UCGHI Board of Directors Vice Chair

HIV vaccine enters human efficacy trials

UCSC alumna’s film about Syrian women refugees to have world premiere at film festival

Food for thought: The Tsimane Health and Life History Project at UC Santa Barbara

Machine learning identifies antibiotic resistance genes in tuberculosis-causing bacteria

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to fund yearlong series exploring human suffering

UC grad students picked to help Global Food Initiative

UCLA team helps create facility for Ugandan women who suffered childbirth injuries

Bay Area organizations introduce Bay Area Global Health Alliance

Health communication researcher working to improve internet-based medical information

Researchers identify new approach for controlling dengue fever and Zika virus

A simpler way to get to the bottom of mysterious illnesses in poor countries

Improving chickens to quell hunger worldwide

Affordable Care Act reduced health care disparities among Latino groups in California, study finds

Steffanie Strathdee names one of the 50 most influential people in health care 2018

Tracking a killer

A new and dire diagnosis: Human trafficking

Study links individual HPV types to HIV infection

Ebola cases spike as nervous communities stop cooperating with health care workers

Grant will support efforts to integrate climate change impacts into health sciences courses

Solar power could electrify sub-Saharan Africa

$2.3 million NIH grant will support efforts to stop mosquito-borne diseases 

UCSF HIV doctor to co-chair International AIDS Conference, AIDS 2020

MarHub: A technology to help refugees navigate asylum

International research conference draws new perspectives, sparks new ideas

UCLA-led Health Equity Network of the Americas is created to address gaps in health, longevity

GloCal Health Fellowship promotes global health research, builds research capacity

Video: What is global health?

Forum calls for action on climate change to protect health

Community engagement enhances graduate education

UC climate-change research is one focus of global summit

Zika virus strips immune cells of their identity

UC Davis receives $1 million from Keck Foundation following virus discovery

Clinical trial seeks to prevent heart disease in those living with HIV

The Lemelson Foundation and the Blum Center partner to help students

Call for papers in transformative approaches for gender justice in sexual and reproductive health

Video: Careers in global health

Climate change puts heat on public health

Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment deputy director launches community resource supporting women’s health

Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers show how computers can predict spread of HIV

Mobility linked with higher-risk sexual behaviors in Kenya and Uganda

Researchers plot maps, collect data to fight future infectious disease outbreaks

HIV and a tale of a few cities

Engineered sand zaps storm water pollutants

Finding Ebola before it finds you

Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise awards summer grants to five UC undergraduates

Climate change and extreme weather events: A snapshot

First Fogarty dermatology fellow studies Kaposi’s sarcoma in Uganda

Devastating events can drive human trafficking, UC Santa Cruz paper shows

Study examines how age and ethnicity impact HIV testing

UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences and Global Programs Office play key role in national survey

Health facilities in low- and middle-income countries not prepared to manage noncommunicable diseases

UC Irvine engineers host workshops in East Africa on precipitation technology

A decade of development engineering with the Pinoleville Pomo Nation

Scientists discover new Ebolavirus in bats in Sierra Leone

Rx One Health Summer Institute 2018 launches in Tanzania

Promising Los Alamos innovations take the spotlight

UC San Diego scientists ID protein exploited by virus ravaging West Africa

UCSF master's program in global health celebrates 10 years of impact

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health partners with a major Chinese medical school

Researchers to target mosquito egg productions to curtail disease

Multimillion-dollar grant brings nicotine and cannabis policy center to campus

UC Davis doctoral students researching mosquitoes

A technology for military and civilian trauma care

In health research, local efforts have global benefit

Planetary Health Center of Expertise selects summer fellows

Eleven trainees begin GloCal Health Fellowship

Global health research is about being adaptable and diligent and working together

Crowdfunding site powers passion projects

Climate change is making it harder for couples to conceive

One Health education: where are we today?

From surgery to policy, Juliet Okoroh seeks health justice worldwide

Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment COE sparks collaboration in the name of #MeToo

Sifuentez appointed to head Center for Humanities

UC San Diego launches new Center for Anti-Parasitic Drug Discovery and Development

The challenges of health care in remote Madagascar

Turning a phage

Rhesus macaque model offers route to study Zika brain pathology

Development Impact Lab conference speaks to future of engineering for poverty solutions

The long-lasting health effects of separating children from their parents at the US border

Understanding the relationship between livestock, snakes and livelihoods in Costa Rica

Peering into Tb bacteria that attacks antibiotics

New planetary health case studies are available now

UC Merced graduate student awarded thesis of the year for work in public health

Why I stopped charging my patients for consultations

Immigrant policing and public health

The trafficking victim beside me

Training the next generation of One Health professionals

Fighting poverty with big data: A conversation with Joshua Blumenstock

No summer rest as UC students eye global health abroad, at home

PHCOE launches International Student Ambassador Program

Online global health courses supplement campus offerings

Call for student ambassadors in Planetary Health

Goosby to collaborate on $94 million USAID STAR Award to PIH

Global TIES team earns honors for solar lantern project

International partners receive funding to study sexual violence

Research offers new insights into malaria parasite

New Fulbright awards strengthen campus study abroad initiatives

Lab-confirmed prenatal exposure to Zika is linked to cardiac defects in infants

Dr. Haile T. Debas on making a contribution to underdeveloped countries In Africa

Global Programs Offices strengthen UC researchers’ work in Africa

Back at UC, but still having global impact

Farming fish could save land

Food for thought takes on new meaning for UC Global Food Initiative fellows at UCLA

Three decades before the #MeToo movement, UC San Diego led the way against sexual assault

UC Davis announces two new partnerships with Australian entities

VIDEO: University of Washington professor explains a socio-technical approach to refugee education

Climate change is ruining California’s environment, report warns

Engineering students contribute to global health solutions

UC researchers at the forefront of drought management

Three new members join the UCGHI Board of Directors

UC Riverside graduate student receives Ford Foundation fellowship

Bill McKibben, Daniel Ellsberg headline Right Livelihood Laureates' conference at UC Santa Cruz

UC Merced professor and students recognized for research excellence

Fulbright’s finest

Study forecasts a severe climate future for California

For Rosa Furneaux, winner of the Dorothea Lange Fellowship, photography begins with trust

Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence DNA from all complex life

Center for AIDS research funding renewed for an old and on-going fight

Preventive use of common antibiotic reduces child mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

UC Merced's first student Fulbright Scholar heads to El Salvador for research

The secret to making it out of poverty

UCSC Community Studies class showcases public health leaders in 'Year of Alumni'

UC San Diego’s sexual assault awareness month events mark pioneering prevention and support efforts

Research links anti-immigrant prejudice to mortality risk

Is the end of the pandemic era approaching?

UCSF convenes groundbreaking commission to define path towards Malaria eradication

UCSB fellow to study violence against women at the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto

Making mental health a global priority

Childhood mortality plummets as community health workers go door-to-door in Urban Mali

Study indicates that climate change will wreak havoc on California agriculture

UC San Diego chemist stirs hope for a new flu treatment

Global fisheries to be, on average, 20 percent less productive in 2300, UCI study finds

Global obesity battle: what you eat and how you think

Thousands have unsafe drinking water, but clean water is close

How UC faced down a global pandemic

Big ideas abroad

UC researchers lead malaria elimination efforts worldwide

Hilton Foundation grant to support early childhood development for babies of HIV-infected mothers in Malawi

Undergrads: funding available for women's health, gender and empowerment projects

Smart farm

First year PhD student will study health communications with a focus on Latino health

Can 1.5 million college students address climate change?

At the nexus of food, energy, and water: Elliot Campbell bridges the research gap

Jaime Sepulveda: stand up for global health

UC Riverside's Sharon Walker to continue investigating depleting water supplies globally

But first, water

Mapping HIV in sub-Saharan Africa reveals patterns

Planetary Health International Student Ambassador Program

Scientists report big improvements in HIV vaccine production

Repurposed drug found to be effective against Zika virus

Highlander Venture Fund chooses UCR professor’s ‘Next-Generation’ mosquito repellent for second Investment

New evidence shows potential of two drugs to block malaria transmission

Project aims to prevent pandemics using One Health approach

Congo Basin Institute an emerging game-changer

Planetary Health COE launches educational resource

Spring 2018 brings more global health courses to UC students

Reflecting on road safety during a holiday in East Africa

Campaign launches to increase abortion care at California universities

Strawberries embody California agriculture's conflicts

This doctor's revolutionary stem cell treatments could eradicate HIV

Researchers return to Guatemala for historic data collection

How birds' genes influence adaptation to climate change

Women leaders in global health: perspectives from emerging leaders

40 Years later, some survivors of the first Ebola outbreak are still immune

Genetic changes help mosquitoes survive pesticide attacks

Researchers don’t know how toxic wildfire smoke is

Human rights lawyers rule in favor of women’s health

Guiding light

Get to work in Planetary Health

VIDEO: Richard Feachem talks about malaria elimination

Women’s resistance to sexual assault in the time of #MeToo

Monkeypox on the rise: how worried should we be?

UCI scientists unveil new satellite-based global drought severity index

Los Alamos research fundamental to first efficacy study for mosaic HIV-1 preventive vaccine

$1.7 Million for climate-resilient agricultural research

Malaria elimination in Asia Pacific could lead to large return on investment, new study shows

DACA students represent the students we want, the doctors we need

Theater experience shapes this GloCal fellow’s medical career

Funding opportunity available for campus-based violence prevention research

UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine designated as a WHO collaborating centre for emergency and trauma care

Hydraulically fractured wells threaten groundwater systems

Medical schools partner to help undeserved communities

The social cost of carbon doubles

Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise publishes special issue in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

Imagining environmental justice

UCSF and partners in Mexico study treatment to prevent diabetes

Making mosquitoes self-destruct

Prestigious fellowship furthers grad student’s asthma research

Measuring stress and child development in Mexican-origin families

Human health as a cost benefit

UCSF announces the Institute for Global Health Sciences

Scientists identify hotspots of coastal risks in Latin America and the Caribbean

Global Poverty and Practice alumni reflect on post-grad life

Preventing gender-based workplace discrimination and sexual harassment

Save the date for UC Global Health Day 2018

Online courses prep those in line to aid global health

Data-rich, low-cost technologies help disarm diseases globally

Global Health Group celebrates 10 years of impact

Persist 2017 conference aims to inspire women to get politically active

UCLA offers new Global Health certificate

From wildlife to humans with the PREDICT project

Put people over profits, says Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus

Abortion restrictions like those in Ohio disproportionately impact low-income women and their health

Researchers create molecule that could ‘kick and kill’ HIV

Meet UC San Diego's Global Health student representatives for 2017-2018

Faculty spotlight: Nathan Samras, MD, MPH

Research honored at scholars symposium

Video: Rx One Health summer course

Social impact

Scientists estimate death rates from air pollution caused by the impact of climate change

Tiny hats for tiny babies

Growing public health program launches standalone PhD

Scientists identify new hosts for Chagas Disease vectors

Improving infant health: What’s the role for social policy?

GloCal fellow Lauren Haack: from small town USA to advocate for Latino kids

In her own words: GloCal fellow tells her story from Tanzania

“Bump Day” reflections: doing more to invest in women and girls’ health

Tick, tick, tick

New PRIME cohort aims to bridge valley’s health divide

Faculty spotlight: Matthew Waxman, MD, DTM&H

Combining vegetables and livestock in Cambodian farming

UCSF welcomes global health anesthesia fellow

GloCal fellows: Getting into the trenches for global health research

Apply now for GloCal Health Fellowship

In a warming climate, ocean- and land-based floods are a disastrous duo, UCI researchers find

Hurricane Harvey’s public health impact extends beyond flooding

Manganese in underground drinking water is cause for concern

Manufacturing in Phnom Penh

United Nations special envoy on Tuberculosis commends India for its bold vision in combating TB

Poverty policies

Mentoring to advance global health

Come together for Women’s Health, Gender and Empowerment retreat

Sulfur used as pesticide linked to lung problems in children

Summer spotlight: UCLA Blum Center summer scholars

Student fellows collaborate for a healthier planet

2017 seed grants support eight planetary health research projects

Master’s students develop their passions through capstone research

UCSD students hope low-cost device will help combat HIV worldwide

UCI establishes Malaria Initiative to fight deadly disease in Africa

UC Berkeley and UCSF researchers host joint symposium at important time for global TB

Star Trek-inspired virtual mentor wins saving lives at birth seed grant

Bats are the major reservoir of coronaviruses worldwide

Undergrads, walking the villages

UCGHI names new board chair

Doctoral candidate wins Fulbright for study in Mexico

Researcher continues progress toward effective HIV inhibitor

Tackling childbirth-related mortality in the world’s poorest place

Small pest, big battle

Women's Health, Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise invites expressions of interest for journal editing role

UCGHI and partners develop online global health courses for UC undergrads

Migrant life takes toll on health

New website showcases global health work across the University of California

Fogarty International Center renews funding for GloCal Health Fellowships

Student capstone research cited in CDC revised guidelines

GloCal fellow John Rose keeps surgery on global health agenda

Immigration does not raise crime, refuting common assumption

Nanopipette technology wins first place in NIH "Follow that Cell" challenge

UCGHI Initiative trains students, faculty to advocate for global health issues

37 Student Innovators from UC Berkeley Gear-Up for Clinton Global Initiative University

Dreaming Big

Women's Health Center of Expertise awards summer grants to seven UC undergrads

Planetary Health Center of Expertise invites proposals for pilot research projects

Planetary Health and CA Department of Conservation offer summer graduate fellowship

Mentoring the mentors in global health research: Johannesburg, South Africa 2016

GloCal Fellow David Heller's opinion piece featured in The Washington Post

New safer conception toolkit to empower local healthcare providers and HIV-affected

Call for Papers: BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth

GloCal fellows participate in Lancet Commission on global surgery

Dr. Jennifer Syvertsen profiled in Global Health Matters

Prestigious global mental health study abroad grant awarded to GPH faculty, Dr. Ojeda and Dr. Burgos