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Happy Holidays from CGH!
12/19/2018
Dear friends of CGH,
We are so excited to share our 2018 end-of-year report with you! As this year winds down, we wanted to reflect on the amazing achievements of our students, faculty, and staff at Johns Hopkins University. Their passion for global health and building strong, respectful relationships is inspiring. We hope you enjoy reading about the work of the Hopkins global health community.
Please read our full report by clicking on the image below (or downloading here...
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JHU Faculty Member and Rakai Health Sciences Program Co-Winners of 2018 Al Sumait Prize for Health
12/02/2018
Photo: (Top) “Members of the Rakai Health Sciences Program” including faculty from the Johns Hopkins BSPH and SOM, and from Makerere University. January 2018, Entebbe, Uganda."; (Bottom) Dr. Sheila West
Dr. Sheila West, PhD PharmD, and the Rakai Health Sciences Program (RHSP) have been named as co-recipients of the Al Sumait Prize, a $1 million USD award that recognizes individuals or institutions for their oustanding work...
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Women Leaders in Global Health 2018: A call for action and change in the narrative
11/12/2018
Nina A Martin | Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
Last week, 900 participants around the world joined the second annual Women Leaders in Global Health conference at the London School of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene on November 8-9, 2018. Speakers representing major non-governmental organizations, ministries of health, funders, academic institutions, private sector, and many more discussed crucial issues on gender equity in global health leadership: What do gender-based disparities...
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Paul S. Lietman Travel Grant Program: Eight Years of Support for Global Health Training
07/31/2018
Nina A. Martin | Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
Global elective experiences can be inspirational, powerful, and defining moments in a physician’s training – opportunities to transcend borders and learn across disciplines to better understand the drivers of illness. To support trainees who wish to make global health a part of their careers, the Center for Global Health (CGH) established the Paul S. Lietman Travel Grant Program for Housestaff and Fellows. Each grantee...
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Bridging the hearing divide: A CGH alumna’s path to ending preventable hearing loss
06/25/2018
Nina Martin | The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
Photo: Emmett presenting at Ted Global 2017, Arusha, Tanzania.“Anuk is a three-year-old boy I treated in Alaska. Ear infections started when he was barely four months old. His parents brought him into clinic, worried he didn't say much compared to his brothers. Sure enough, many rounds of infections had resulted in hearing loss,” began Susan Emmett, speaking into the...
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Congratulations Class of 2018!
05/21/2018
Victoria Chen and Nina Martin | The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
This week marks the close of the academic year and graduation festivities across Johns Hopkins University. At the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health (CGH), we celebrate 85 students who received CGH grants in 2017 to complete global health learning experiences around the world. Students and trainees are at the heart of what we do, through supporting foundational experiences - and the resources needed to...
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CGH celebrates Global Health Day 2018
04/09/2018
Emily Nagourney and Victoria Chen | The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
Each year, the Center for Global Health celebrates Global Health Day by sharing and informing global health knowledge, expertise and experiences with the Johns Hopkins, local, and international communities.
Keynote Speaker
On March 29, 2018, the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health, in partnership with the JHSPH MPH Program and the Johns Hopkins Alliance for a Healthier World, welcomed Dr....
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Emergency departments as a new avenue to capture missed HIV infections
03/26/2018
Nina A. Martin | Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
HIV testing is a critical first step to get patients into care necessary to manage the disease. A new study released in early March 2018 shows that emergency departments are an untapped area to effectively test and identify patients with HIV who may not be captured through other testing strategies in low-resource settings.
Conducted in 2016 at Frere Hospital in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, the team engaged...
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CGH publishes findings from evaluation of GEMS site
03/05/2018
Nina Martin | The Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health
The Center for Global Health, in an effort to provide the highest quality programming to students and faculty, has recently completed an evaluation of its flagship program GEMS (Global Established Multidisciplinary Sites), which bring students and faculty from multiple disciplines together to solve complex global health challenges.
The CGH team interviewed students from the first year of the program to understand barriers...
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2018 GEMS Teams Awarded
02/15/2018
Global health is an inherently interdisciplinary field, spanning medicine, nursing, public health, pharmacy, engineering, business, anthropology, political science, and other fields. The Global Established Multidisciplinary Sites (GEMS) program at the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health (CGH) aims to bring these disciplines together to identify and tackle important global health challenges around the world. This year, thanks to support from the Gilead Foundation, the Center awarded five GEMS...