It’s a wrap for another successful year of Global Week at UVA! Global Week is organized by the Office of the Vice Provost for Global Affairs every year and is an opportunity for those interested in global topics to learn more about the research opportunities, global collaborations and services available at UVA. This year more than 30 events across Grounds featured art, politics, and culture from around the world and exciting new contributions from students, including five CIO-sponsored events.

Owen Selden is a third-year student majoring in the Human Biology Distinguished Majors Program and a 2023 Center for Global Health Equity University Scholar. He talked about the global health experiences at UVA and in Rwanda that have inspired him to pursue a future in public health.

Human Biology major Hamna Shafiq was fueled by her personal experiences to pursue studies in global health. Now a third-year, she is primed for medical school through her research in undernutrition in vulnerable global populations.

UVA is among a small group of institutions that writes a new global health case and students compete annually.  This year CGHE's global case competition celebrated its 10th anniversary with a challenge where 32 teams participated to address a case about tuberculosis in Tanzania.

Amita Sudhir and Josh Easter are Associate Professors in UVA’s Department of Emergency Medicine. In October 2021, they traveled to Kenya as part of the first UVA connection with AMPATH, an organization that connects a consortium of North American universities with Moi University, a public institution in Eldoret, western Kenya. The universities then jointly develop health training programming and exchanges of students and faculty from both sides of the Atlantic.

In April 2022, the Center for Global Health Equity hosted 15 colleagues from partner institutions in Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda for the CGHE Global Partnerships Workshop to hear about current global health research and student engagement opportunities. Other topics discussed in the workshops organized over a week in Charlottesville included new grant opportunities to develop research capacity; opportunities for educational training; and shared priorities for further research and advocacy.

The University of Virginia Global Affairs joins the world in mourning the untimely death of Dr. Paul Farmer, who died on Monday while working at the University of Global Health Equity in Butaro, Rwanda, an institution he helped to begin and to which he devoted so much of his life. 

Sara Krivacsy is graduating from UVA’s College of Arts & Sciences with a Global Public Health major and Anthropology minor. She is planning to become a practitioner in global public health at a time of unprecedented change and challenge. She reflects on her experiences at UVA and how it has expanded her perspective for global engagement.

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.

University of Virginia health researcher Mami Taniuchi and her collaborators at Aga Khan University have received $6 million grant from Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to implement an integrated sewage and clinical case surveillances in Karachi, one of the largest cities in

Erica Stephens is getting ready to graduate next month with major in Cognitive Science and a minor in Health & Wellbeing from University of Virginia’s College of Arts & Science.

For the first time since it was launched, Center for Global Health Equity held their Global Health Case Competition online. But it did not dim the enthusiasm.

As we launch the 2021 spring semester this month amid continuing challenges from the COVID-19 threat, the contours of the post-pandemic world are emerging.  Steadily accelerated vaccinations, improved compliance with public health measures, strides in treating the disease, and the resilience of our students and faculty in mastering new ways to learn and research are creating conditions to spring back even stronger after the pandemic.

PositiveLinks (PL) is a mobile application developed at University of Virginia for people living with HIV.

Olivia Fyre, is a 3rd year student majoring in Global Health Studies and minoring in Religious Studies.

On November 9, more than 800 participants came together virtually for the Annual Global Health Scholar Research Symposium organized by Center for Global Health and to listen to renowned American medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted how we engage in global research and scholarship.

Stephanie Greenfield is a cognitive science major concentrating in neuroscience. Her interests in global health started early – in high school, when she went to Haiti, Nicaragua and Dominican Republic on medical missions.

Joshua McCray, a rising third-year student at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, was planning to research the effectiveness of Tongan traditional medicine in the South Pacific Kingdom of Tonga this summer before the pandemic plans cancelled his travel and research plans.

Rayness Mollinedo is from Sterling, Virginia, but his family came from Bolivia. This third-year students is majoring in Public Health Sciences and his interests align with health literacy within the Latino community. 

Benjamin Hill is a fourth-year student studying Global Development Studies and Religious Studies. Outside of his studies, the Filipino-American born and raised in Northern Virginia loves reading, comics, growing plants, and singing.

What does a project with workers at sites receiving electronic waste from Europe and North America (e-waste) in Ghana have in common with efforts to assess the impact of rural hospital closures in the United States or work to document the journey of

Marcel Durieux is a professor in Anesthesiology and Neurological Surgery at the University of Virginia Health and has worked on number of global health projects in East Africa, all involving training in anesthesiology.