The UIC Center for Global Health commemorated the milestone 10th Anniversary of starting the Global Medicine (GMED) Program by hosting a celebratory alumni event in September 2022! In conjunction with the event, we launched the first annual GMED Alumni Newsletter HERE. Please check out updates on current students, CGH faculty, and GMED alumni! [...]
This project conducted a process evaluation that utilizes ethnographic, survey, and community collaborative methods to determine whether program activities have been implemented as intended. The results of the process evaluation are to improve the quality of services and future activities of the psychosocial programming provided by the Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) for Syrian refugees [...]
The University of Illinois Foundation has received donations to support the Center for Global Health “Friends of Global Health” Fund. This fund supports the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine, Center for Global Health (CGH) professional development programming in low- and middle-income countries. The “Friends of Global Health” will fund up to [...]
The Center for Global Health in the University of Illinois College of Medicine, with active ongoing collaborations with health partners in Kyiv and Lviv, Ukraine, strongly condemns the war being waged by Russian military forces in the sovereign state of Ukraine. Casualties among innocent civilians, including children and elderly, increase every day. More than [...]
Erickson Explorer Awardees 2021 Congratulations on the 2022 recipients of the Erickson Explorer Awards! The Erickson Explorer Award supports trainees doing elective rotations in low- and middle-income countries to support humanitarian medical care, advance global health research, or provide capacity building or other educational programs. The support is provided by the founder of the UIC [...]
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The Friends of Global Health are individuals engaged with the University of Illinois College of Medicine Center for Global Health. With backgrounds in the public and private sectors, they participate in strategic planning at the Center for Global Health and support projects and programs within the Center. Their mission is to advocate for initiatives increasing equity, health care capacity, and access to care globally and support the [...]
UIC will participate in clinical trials to cure severe red blood congenital diseases using CRISPR technology READ MORE