CGHSR awards global health seed grants to three faculty members

Posted
August 21, 2024

The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility (CGHSR) has awarded three University of Minnesota faculty members Global Health Seed Grants. This year’s funding will advance global health research projects in Africa and South America.

The 2024 awardees are:

  • Noelle Noyes, DVM, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, UMN College of Veterinary Medicine
  • Caleb Skipper, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, UMN Medical School 
  • Byron Vaughn MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, UMN Medical School 
     

Global Health Seed Grants provide funding of $25,000, and are awarded to UMN faculty every year. The primary goal of this funding is to support global health research studies that prioritize international partnership and long-term, sustainable collaboration. CGHSR has funded 48 Global Health Seed Grant awards since the program began in 2016.  Applications open in the spring.

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The three awardees of the 2024 Global Health Seed Grants