Center for Innovation in Global Health
Highlighted News & Events
First year medical student Veronica Manzo is part of a team of Global Oncology volunteers working to implement new educational materials to help low literacy cancer patients better understand their disease and improve adherance to treatment. The materials were launched in Malawi and Rwanda last summer and the team is working to expand the initiative in several other regions throughout the year. Read more.
We're hosting our next Global Health Interest Group meeting at Stanford on June 24 from 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Join colleagues from various disciplines to celebrate, socialize and share what’s new in global health and give a warm welcome to our newest faculty and students. We'll hear short presentations from a few faculty members, followed by refreshments. View flyer.
Michael Nedelman, a third year Stanford medical student, has been selected for the 2015-2016 Stanford-ABC News Fellowship in Media and Global Health. Now in its fifth year, the global health and media fellowship offers a unique opportunity for one fellow to receive 12-months of training in global health reporting through rotations at leading media organizations. Nedelman becomes the first Stanford student to receive the fellowship, having been selected from a highly competitive pool of medical students, residents, fellows and clinical faculty from across the country.
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 9:00 a.m. PDT
A message from Dr. Michele Barry, Senior Associate Dean of Global Health and Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health
Our hearts go out again to those in Nepal. Two earthquakes in less than a month’s time is two too many. Fortunately the epicenter of this second earthquake is in an area that is less populated.
Paul Auerbach, who is back from the April 25 quake, shared several first-hand accounts from his time on the ground, which are available here. Rebecca Walker remains in Nepal supporting the efforts of the Nepal Ambulance Service (NAS).
The Nepalese Ministry of Health recently asked that FMTs ready to deploy to Nepal should refrain from doing so as the current need had been met. Anyone interested in participating in the relief efforts in-person should keep apprised of the situation and do so in coordination with an official agency approved to be in Nepal.
As Paul reiterates in his most recent post, monetary donations will continue to be essential to sustaining response efforts and protecting the health of Nepal’s people. Please consider donating to any of the programs listed below.
Learn more about Stanford's relief efforts here. We continue to keep Nepal in our thoughts.
· Red Cross
· International Medical Corps
· UNICEF
· Doctors Without Borders
· UN World Food Programme
· Save the Children
· OxFam
· CARE
· Catholic Relief Services
· Mercy Corps
· Nepal Ambulance Service
Paul Auerbach, MD, Stanford professor and chief of emergency medicine, is part of an International Medical Corps team that recently returned from assisting with the earthquake relief efforts in Kathmandu. His first-hand accounts from Nepal are available on Stanford Medicine's Scope blog. Auerbach is one of many members of the Stanford community contributing to the rescue and recovery efforts in Nepal. Learn more and find out how you can get involved here.
More than 100 students, educators and researchers convened Apr. 20 at UC-Davis for a global health seminar featuring scientific experts from Stanford University, UC-San Francisco, UC-Davis and UC-Berkeley. Representing a variety of academic disciplines, panelists from each of the four universities offered their perspectives on the linkage between environmental factors as drivers of diseases, and what is needed to address complex health challenges in an ever-changing global environment.
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From the CIGH Director
Certainly this last year has been dominated by the Ebola epidemic which, although waning, is still very present. Stanford volunteers remain in the field as well as in our thoughts.
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Learn more about
The Yale/Stanford Johnson & Johnson Global Health Scholars Program
The Fogarty Global Health Equity Scholars Program
The Medical Education Partnership Iniative (MEPI) in Zimbabwe
The Stanford-NBC News Global Health and Medical Fellowship
Ethical Challenges in Short-term Global Health Training Web Course