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UN Migration Agency Project
Training health providers abroad helps to ensure that US-bound refugees receive proper health screening, arrive safely and have a more successful community integration.
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Global Health Day provides an opportunity for those engaged in global health to come together, exchange knowledge across disciplines, and make connections. Learn more
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CGHSR is a co-sponsor of the 14th Annual Women's Health Research Conference. The focus of the 2019 conference is Sexual Harassment and Violence: Impact on Women's Mental and Physical Health Outcomes. This half day event, sponsored by the Women's Health Research Program, features plenary presentations, panel discussion, and a poster session on women's health research.
The Global Health Student Advisory Board (GHSAB) is seeking applications from students across the Health Sciences that are passionate about global health and want to help shape global health educational opportunities at the University of Minnesota. GHSAB is an interdisciplinary group of students that advises the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility (CGHSR) and meets monthly to organize global health related events on campus for all students. If you want to promote global health at the University of Minnesota, we’d love to have you join us!
Applications are being accepted for Fogarty Global Health Fellows for 12-month fellowships focused on critical, inter-related areas of health in low-income countries. Open to highly motivated doctoral students and postdocs to experience research training at top-ranked, NIH-funded research centers in locations including Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda, Ghana, Liberia, Peru, Thailand, Nepal and India. Learn more and apply.
The CGHSR Faculty Mentor Award encourages UMN researchers to involve students in their global health research projects at international sites. Created as a way to give students a guided global health research experience, this mentorship program provides up to $5,000 for faculty to defray costs associated with incorporating a student researcher into their team. In 2019, CGHSR awarded 3 inaugural Faculty Mentor Awards to support student involvement in faculty-led global health research initiatives in Malaysia, China, and Kenya.
Dr. Jonathon Kirsch is a 2018 recipient of a CGHSR Global Health Seed Grant and an available mentor for the CGHSR Scholars Program. In our first researcher spotlight, he answers a few of our questions on his dengue fever research and experience with mentees in Colombia.
CGHSR welcomes Dr. Lindy Fenlason MD MPH, Senior Nutrition and Capacity Building Advisor at USAID to the University of Minnesota. In the first position of its kind, Dr. Fenlason is serving as a liaison between USAID and the University of Minnesota with the goal of strengthening partnerships between USAID and academia, exploring and expanding mutually beneficial connections and promoting the expertise housed in both institutions.
On May 17 to 19th, 50 learners and nearly 150 instructors, facilitators, and volunteers came together in Hudson, Wisconsin for the 6th UMN Humanitarian Crisis Simulation. Participants from a range of academic and professional disciplines were formed into teams representing NGO responders, that set out to assess an unraveling crisis depicted by role players and props scattered through the sprawling wooded site. The crisis involved thousands of refugees, health issues, security concerns, and insufficient resources.