University of Virginia Center for Global Health
The Center for Global Health at the University of Virginia is celebrating its 30th year as one of the nation’s oldest centers for global health in higher education. The Center promotes health in resource-limited settings by fostering the commitment of students, faculty, and partners from all disciplines to address the diseases of poverty.
Our model has three main components:
- Scholars: UVa students develop faculty-mentored projects related to health with collaborators in resource-limited settings. Scholars are encouraged to develop cross-disciplinary research projects which emphasize service to local populations.
- Fellows: International fellows from collaborating institutions in developing regions train and conduct research at UVa in order to return, train others, and lead efforts to address local health priorities.
- Curricula: CGH promotes faculty development of multidisciplinary global health curricula to prepare and inspire students for involvement in global health. UVa's Center for Global Health is committed to providing pathways for students to pursue their interests in global health as a part of their academic and professional careers. Opportunities at UVa range from individual courses that explore global health through a variety of disciplines, to majors that allow for a focus on global health, to minors that allow students to add expertise in global health to their chosen discipline.
Below are several presentations describing projects and programs conducted by UVa's Center for Global Health faculty and students.
- Overview of the University of Virginia's Center for Global Health program
- Photovoice study - local understanding of clean water effects on health
- Description of the Infectious Diseases Institute training program
- Severe Sepsis in Uganda - Findings and Future Directions
- Malnutrition & Amebiasis in Children
- Description of the Infectious Diseases & Biodefense program
As of February 2009, UVa's Center for Global Health has guided more than 500 students who have conducted scholar projects. In addition, of the more than 100 fellows who have come from oversees to work in our labs in Charlottesville, a remarkable 100% have returned to become health care leaders in their own countries, reversing the problem of brain drain. The Center has also been a catalyst for the creation of numerous courses created to global health owing, in part, to a framework grant from the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health.
UVa's Center for Global Health was honored to be spotlighted at the 2007 Global Health Council’s annual conference and was selected to be showcased in this 5 minute video. Click to view video
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