Global Women’s Health (GWH)2023-10-09T18:20:12-05:00
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Gelila Goba, MD, MPH, FACOG

Associate Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology
Division of Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics & Gynecology
Director of the Global Women’s Health Fellowship

CONTACT US

Center for Women’s Health:
Phone: (312) 413-7500
Fax: (312) 413-8331

Academic Office:
Phone: (312) 996-7430
Fax: (312) 996-4238

Global Women’s Health:
Phone: (312) 355-1661
Fax: (312) 996-4238

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Catherine Ford , MD, MPH, FACOG

Associate Residency Program Director

Director of Global Health Graduate Education, Center for Global Health

Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics & Gynecology

Division of Academic Specialists in General Obstetrics & Gynecology

CONTACT US

Center for Women’s Health:
Phone: (312) 413-7500
Fax: (312) 413-8331

Academic Office:
Phone: (312) 355-1661
Fax: (312) 996-4238

Photo of Dr. Gelila Goba

Irina Buhimschi, MD

Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology,
Director, Division of Research
Director, Perinatal Research Laboratory

CONTACT US

Academic Office:
Phone: (312) 996-8786
Fax: (312) 996-4238

Welcome

Welcome to the Global Women’s Health (GWH) page of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine. We believe in the GWH’s mission to improve health equity worldwide through enhanced clinical collaboration among investigators around the world, equal access to health, enhanced public health awareness, inclusive educational programs, cutting edge discoveries and research and partnership.

For the last two decades our department has been involved in addressing important GWH initiatives and our work was possible only through strong partnership with dynamic faculty and investigators around the world including Ethiopia (Mekelle University), Uganda, South-Africa, and Ecuador. The educational effort of our GWH led to extraordinary achievements including education and graduation of high-caliber OB/GYN residents in Ethiopia. This educational model extended to many other regions of Ethiopia, including Oromiya, Addis Ababa as well as Uganda (Makerere University). For many years our faculty collaborated with investigators across South-Africa and Uganda to test the implication of a newly designed tool to predict preeclampsia. Lastly, as a testimony of their achievement and commitment to GWH our faculty have been invited to present their work in the U.S,. and around the globe.

Our facultys’ talents have been amply recognized institutionally, nationally and internationally. In 2021, Dr. Ford was asked to be the UIC Associate Director of Academic Programs at the Center for Global Health. On the same year, Dr. Goba was invited by the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) to serve on the Committee on Well Woman Health Care. Dr. Irina Buhimschi was recognized as a guest speaker at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) World Intellectual Property (IP) Day Featured Innovator, Capitol Hill, Washington DC 2018 ceremony and received the USPTO Patents for Humanity Award.

Our department remains active in the GWH arena and continues to partner with the global community across the world in the interest of women’s health and human rights.

Global Women’s Health News and Events

UI Health doctors to study new diagnostic test for preeclampsia in Africa

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UIC Global Women’s Health at 10th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health (March 2019)

The Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) [...]

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UIC OBGYN Department welcomes Jessica George as incoming Global Women’s Health Fellow (February 2019)

Dr. Jessica George grew up in Lincolnshire, Illinois, [...]

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Global Women’s Health Reception

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