Message from Director Peter Spencer
The Global Health Center is a university-wide program that promotes interdisciplinary global health education, research, service and advocacy to reduce the burden of illness and injury at home and abroad.
Message from Director Peter Spencer
OHSU GHC Student Summer Travel Scholarship Awards for 2012
We are proud to announce the winners of the OHSU Global Health Center Student Summer Travel Scholarship research - education awards for 2012 and wish to thank the funders for their generous donations.
Funders:- GHC Student Interest Group
- Reuben W. Hills III OHSU Medical Ambassador Program
Coming Soon!
An Interactive World Map of OHSU Global Health Activities - The Global Health Center is creating an interactive world map to track OHSU’s global health activities throughout the university. The map will provide a single source where visitors to the site will be able to search projects by country and by discipline. A legend will specify if the programs are open to students, residents, clinicians, researchers &/or public. Details
"Optimal wellness that transcends national boundaries and is best addressed by cooperative solutions." This philosophy encompasses domestic as well as international health and focuses on health in resource-poor communities.
Photo credit: Ruth Rice. Brooke Frakes examines a villager from the Wolani tribe in the highlands of West Papua.
Global Health Center Video
Interested in the Global Health Center activities? Click here to view 5 minute video
iCHEE in the Oregonian
"OHSU program gives immigrants, the unemployed and underemployed a way to get health checkups," by Nick Budnick, The Oregonian.
... In rows of chairs sit would-be patients: immigrants, the unemployed and the underemployed. Some waiting outside since 6 a.m., they have gathered for free health checks offered by a shoestring program based at Oregon Health & Science University ... View Oregonian article plus read OHSU student reflections on the iCHEE webpage. (Photo credit: Thomas Hoggard and Rick Burian)International Innovations
Our OHSU Global Health Center is featured in the European publication: International Innovations.Read the extensive report on our Center that was disseminated to the World Health Organization plus other major European global health related organizations. Report
Recipient of the 2008 NIH John E. Fogarty International Center Framework Grant on Global Health in Changing Environments
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The Global Health Center strives to provide accurate and up-to-date information regarding academic, research, and service activities across OHSU and beyond. Given the changing nature of global health, we highly recommend that readers of this website check with programs and training sites of interest to assure accurate information. |
