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CGHSR Executive Director Attends World Health Assembly to Promote Ethical Approaches to Global Health Engagements

Advocacy for Global Health Partnerships, a coalition co-founded by Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility Executive Director Shailey Prasad, hosted an event during the World Health Assembly in May that promoted bidirectionality…
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CGHSR Facilitates Training in Africa to Standardize Care for U.S.-bound Refugees

The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility recently facilitated back-to-back two-day trainings in East Africa that provided hands-on instruction for United Nations Migration Agency (IOM) physicians.

CGHSR Director of Global Women’s Health Rahel Nardos Discusses Maternal Health Disparities During Minority Health Month

Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility Director of Global Women’s Health Rahel Nardos, MD, MCR, discussed disparities in maternal health during a recent interview on Kare 11 as part of the network’s coverage of Minority Health…

Collaborators from CGHSR Contribute to Study Highlighting Relationship Between Language Access and Health Outcomes

Three collaborators from the Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility (CGHSR) were senior and contributing authors on a recently published study that found a connection between language access and health outcomes. The study was…

Fall Course Registration Now Open: Global Health in Local Contexts and Global Health Ethics

Are you a student or health care practitioner interested in global health?  The Center for Global Health and Social Responsibility (CGHSR) has opened registration for two fall semester courses available to UMN students and community…
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Seeds of Change

Global health research is at the core of sustainable solutions, but it can be difficult for junior researchers to find funding to get their research off the ground. For Richard MacLehose and Jennifer Rickard, Seed Grants have been a…
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Global Health Seed Grants – Request for Proposals

CGHSR requests proposals for our annual Global Health Seed Grants program. This year there is also a special interest call for research projects specifically pertaining to women's health. Proposals are due May 19.
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Collaborating to build inclusive health systems abroad

Maria Sofia Cuba Fuentes and a team of researchers received an inaugural Global Engagement Grant from CGHSR in 2021. The results of their research in Peru were published last month in PLOS Global Public Health.

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