A new research collaborative launched by the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility (CGHSR) seeks to advance global health research and foster lasting partnerships with researchers in Thailand.
CGHSR created the collaborative with Chiang Mai University’s Research Institute of Health Sciences (RIHES) in 2023 to bring together faculty from CMU and UMN in efforts to establish joint research initiatives.
The initiative aims to provide more opportunities for collaboration, leverage infrastructure to ease the administrative lift of operationalizing global health research and create an environment that fosters partnership and opportunities to mentor students.
In 2023, the collaborative funded three research projects led by principal investigators from both UMN and CMU. Initial areas of research include environmental health, air pollutants, PM 2.5 and genetic variants associated with liver cancer in Thailand.
