global health

Passy Nabongho traveled to the University of Minnesota to participate in the Global Medical Education and Research program. 

Zaynab Ahmed, a School of Public Health student, used a Global Health Ethics in Practice Award to support neonatal intensive care units in Borama, Somaliland. 

A University of Minnesota researcher is working to implement family-based interventions to prevent teen suicide in Uganda.

Miranda Harris Martinez spent her fellowship in rural Peru studying the perceptions and expressions of mental health among Indigenous women of the Kukama tribe. 

As a researcher, Associate Professor Sarah Hoffman, PhD, MPH, RN, studies the longitudinal health of refugees post-resettlement, gender-based violence, and the intergenerational effects of trauma in families.

It’s highly unlikely that a university student would be given the reins to a government-run health agency along with a $1.5 million budget. But in the Global Health Case Competition, this kind of scenario is commonplace.

The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility has awarded seven University of Minnesota faculty members Global Engagement Grants, funding that will be used to advance novel global health projects.

David Meya of Makerere University, who partners with the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, is one of only 10 appointees that were selected across Africa.

This year’s funding, awarded to Noelle Noyes, Caleb Skipper, and Byron Vaughn, will advance global health research projects in Africa and South America. 

Joseph Baluku completed the Fogarty Global Health Fellowship in July, studying whether people living with HIV who recovered from tuberculosis were at a higher risk of cardiovascular disease.