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
One of the most prestigious hematology journals in the world, Lancet Haematology, recently published featured Dr. Bishesh Sharma Poudyal from the Civil Service Hospital of Kathmandu (Nepal). Dr. Poudyal is the person I have had the privilege to work with since 2012 to build the first Blood & Marrow Transplant (BMT) Program in Nepal. [...]
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