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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Grand Challenges Explorations is Now Accepting Grant Proposals
Proposals Due May 15, 2012

Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions, is now accepting grant proposals for its latest application round.  Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies.

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NIH Awards $20 Million over Five Years to Train Next Generation of Global Health Researchers

The Fogarty International Center at the NIH announced the recipients of the Fogarty Global Health Program for Fellows and Scholars.  Five consortia of academic institutions will be awarded about $4 million each over five years to support the training activities of 400 early-career health scientists.  Each consortia is comprised of four institutions for a total of 20 partner institutions.

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International Travel Grants

Travel grants are funded by the University of Minnesota central administration to support the internationalization of the University (on all campuses) through research, teaching and outreach.  Funds can be used to bring international colleagues to campus or send individuals and groups abroad for international experiences.  There are three deadlines per year for international travel grants.  The deadlines are March 15, August 15, and December 15. 

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Building a global health portfolio: Expanding on the legacy of Minnesota’s public health pioneers.

U of M School of Public Health dean John R. Finnegan writes about Launching the “One Health” initiative and Reaffirming the land-grant mission in the April 2011 issue of Minnesota Physician.

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Enrollment Now Open for U of M Global Health Online Training
The University of Minnesota's Global Health Course is one of just 17 accredited global health courses in the world, and the only course that is co-sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  The Global Health Course, in its entirety, includes more than 300 hours of training, consists of contributions from more than 170 regional, national, and international faculty experts, and offers the most current and relevant information for health care providers that desire to serve the highest quality of care to their patients and reduce disparities in health care outcomes for globally-mobile populations such as immigrants, refugees, and travelers.

Please note that each module has been designed as a stand-alone curriculum and may be taken independently of the other modules.  Five additional courses will be added over the next few months. 

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Whole Village Project
The Whole Village Project (WVP) is an interdisciplinary research and development project partnership between the University of Minnesota and Tanzanian based NGO Savannas Forever Tanzania.  The project provides many opportunities for faculty and student collaboration, including faculty partnerships for future grant possibilities, data for secondary analysis, guest lectures and sample data, student internships and thesis papers - or share your own ideas for collaboration.

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Upcoming Events/Courses

SPH Roundtable

The Economy and Health: What is the Role of Public Health?

Friday, April 27 - 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon

Coffman Memorial Union Theater - University of Minnesota

This SPH Roundtable will focus on the effects of recent changes in the economy on health and the strategies needed to improve the health of those most affected by the recession and job loss.

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North American Refugee Healthcare Conference

June 28-30, 2012

Rochester, New York

This 3-day conference will include a variety of healthcare and culture topics.  The keynote speakers will be Eskinder Negash, Director, U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement, and Martin Cetron, M.D., Director, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  The conference is co-sponsored by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Asian Clinical Tropical Medicine

July 21 - August 3, 2012

Bangkok, Thailand

Join the Faculty of Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University, Georgia Health Sciences University, the University of Ottawa, and the University of Minnesota as they co-host the fourth Asian Clinical Tropical Medical Course in beautiful Bangkok, Thailand. Healthcare providers with experience and/or a special interest in clinical tropical medicine or infectious disease are invited to attend.  This unique course consists of lectures, demonstrations, workshops, and small-group clinical rounds in various Thai hospitals.

This course will be offered in conjunction with the U of M Global Health seven-week online global health course as another way to complete the requirements to sit for the ASTMH certificate in clinical tropical medicine examination.  Enrollment is limited.

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Global Health Super Course hosted at the University of Pittsburgh
Academic faculty world-wide are sharing their lectures at the University of Pittsburgh's Global Health Super Course website (9389 faculty from 134 countries contributing more than 860 lectures).

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Past Events

Global Community Health for Future Generations, October 20, 2011

Academic Health Center Delegation to Uganda, February 1-5, 2010
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Official Launch of the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility, January 21, 2010
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