UVA Health received a shipment on Friday with 50,000 facemasks donated by Lingshan Charity Foundation, a Chinese philanthropic organization. The facemasks donated by the Foundation will help boost the health system’s supply of personal protective equipment for its front-line providers.
A novel UVA-created smartphone app called PositiveLinks, which helps patients track their medical care as well as their mood and stress levels was awarded 2020 Innovators of the Year.
A cohort of 14 students – a mix of rising second-, third- and fourth-years – did virtual internships with partner organizations in India, Morocco, Thailand and Peru over the summer.
In 2006, University of Virgina anthropologist Lise Dobrin received a document attached to an email from a man she knew in Papua New Guinea, where she had conducted fieldwork.
"It was a life-changing experience. My new family in Milingimbi will forever be in my heart," said third-year student Callie Collins who spent two-weeks with a remote Aboriginal island community of Milingimbi, off the north-coast of Australia.
