The Hauslohner Global REACH Fund was established in 2014 by UM Alumnus Dr. Peter Hauslohner and his wife Dr. Marianna Nosa to support community-based public health research and researchers in Africa.
Nearly 1500 people participated in the 7th annual meeting of the Consortium for Universities for Global Health (CUGH) held in San Francisco, April 9-11. The attendees included several faculty, staff, and students from across the University of Michigan (UM).
The Hauslohner Global REACH Fund, established in 2014 by UM Alumnus Dr. Peter Hauslohner and his wife Dr. Marianna Nosa , supported the community-based public health research projects of three Ghanaian physicians in 2015. The donors, who themselves have considerable health-related international experience, designed the fund so that 100% of the
Two former medical students have become first authors on papers based on their research experiences in Ghana during the summer following their M1 year.
The new Grand Convergence Collection released by the Public Library of Science (PLOS) focuses on aligning technologies and realities in global health and features an article co-authored by Cheryl Moyer, MPH, PhD.
The University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) platform in Ethiopia has two new milestones to celebrate. On January 6th, 2016, UMMS faculty and their partners at St. Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC) in Addis Ababa celebrated the opening of the MICHU Reproductive Health Clinic and the start of a two-year comprehensive
UM nephrologist, Dr. Matthias Kretzler , and an international team of renal systems researchers have identified a simple test to identify patients at risk for chronic kidney disease (CKD), one of the fastest growing chronic diseases nationally and one of the most costly diseases globally. Early CKD has no signs or symptoms and cannot be
The latest edition of Global Health Matters is now available online. In addition to E-news articles, global health briefs, and global health-related funding announcements, featured items include NIH-led efforts on global brain research, genomic research and training fostered by H3Africa, an article on advancing cancer research in
Several University of Michigan communicators recently returned from a trip to Ghana, where they covered, among other things, the growing partnership between the University's Department of Otolaryngology and the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, Ghana.
The communications team, led by William Foreman , Associate Director of
Applications are now available for paid fellowship positions within the Global Health Corps, with placements in NGOs and government agencies in sub-Saharan Africa and the US.
UMMS students Mary Guan and Jiaxin Huang recently returned from the 2015 conference of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association (APAMSA), where they earned 2nd price in the poster contest for their summer 2015 work on hepatitis B knowledge and stigma in China
