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GHS Recognized for its Leadership
From left, Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann talks to Haile Debas, executive director of UCSF Global Health Sciences; Christopher Elias, president and CEO of PATH; and J. Stephen Morrison, director of the Global Health Policy Center at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, at a Nov. 9 public forum on global health.
Global Health Sciences has been playing a leadership role in California and internationally for many years now. UCSF Public Affairs has published an article about GHS’s recent achievements, including the launching of the UC-wide Global Health Institute.
Aga Khan University & UCSF Form Partnership
Haile T Debas, MD, Executive Director of Global Health Sciences at UCSF, and AKU President Firoz Rasul sign a memorandum of understanding in the presence of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and His Highness the Aga Khan. Photo © Zahur RamjiUCSF and the Aga Khan University signed a memorandum of understanding on November 2 to advance their common goal to promote equitable human advancement and social justice in the less privileged parts of the world.
UCSF Launches Website and Database to Support International Research
International work is central to the UCSF mission Advancing Health Worldwide™. To support international projects at UCSF, GHS and CTSI have collaborated with UCSF faculty and Central Administration to establish a Global Research Enterprise Support (G-RES) team whose objective is to facilitate and enable international projects at UCSF. The G-RES web site has been created to provide links and information on a broad spectrum of topics which are essential to preparing
and administering international grants and projects. G-RES also helps
researchers with such problems as finding local expertise in other countries, mediating human subjects standards agreements, and what to do if an employee needs an emergency evacuation. International researchers often ask who else at UCSF is working internationally. To respond to this need GHS and CTSI have also collaborated to create a searchable database
of UCSF international activities, grants and collaborations. Openly accessible, the database serves as a resource for identifying colleagues and expertise, and is searchable by location, research activity, discipline and funding source.
Sir Richard Feachem Presents at the CSIS
Photo: Daniel Porter, CSISOn October 14, Sir Richard Feachem presented at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, outlining salient global health priorities for the 21st century and the necessary elements to successfully address this agenda.
Watch the speech or download the presentation on the CSIS site.
Consortium of Universities for Global Health
Photo: Will Kirk
The Consortium of Universities for Global Health held their first annual meeting at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD on September 14 and 15, 2009. This meeting brought together the Presidents of Boston University, Duke University, Emory University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Washington with more than 250 researchers, professors, administrators, and students to talk about the dramatic surge of interest from students and faculty to address the challenges facing the field of global health. Dr. Haile Debas, Executive Director of UCSF Global Health Sciences and Chair of the CUGH, was one of many distinguished speakers, including Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the NIH; Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, Special Advisor for Health Policy, Office of Management and Budget; and Dr. Eric Goosby, U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and Ambassador. Webcasts of the meeting can be viewed on the CUGH website.
UCSF graduates first cohort of Global Health students
Photo: Susan Merrell
On July 24, 2009 seven UCSF students became the first in the US to receive a Master of Science degree in Global Health.
Influenza A(H1N1) Flu information
H1N1 flu is an example of a global health issue; an infectious illness that spreads across international borders with the travelers who carry the virus. These public agencies are your best sources of information about the current situation: