UNC School of Public Health - Office of Global Health

Office of Global Health

At UNC Public Health is Global Health!

Welcome to the website for the Office of Global Health in the School of Public Health
at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Students from the School of Public Health travel the globe, bringing back photos that inspire us all to make a difference. Photographs on this page were provided by Elena Lebetkin, Isabelle Michaud, Jeanette Lager, Chris Deery and Mike Park.

For more information on sharing your photos and to see the captions for this slideshow.

Global health blogging

Several UNC public health groups and students are posting blogs this summer. Here are several related to global health.

UNC graduate students in Malawi are blogging about their experiences. Link to blog.
AGRADU Summer Internship blog -- a group of UNC undergraduate students are involved with Advocates for Grassroots Development in Uganda this summer and are writing about their experiences. Link to blog
Aimee McHale, an MPH student in Health Policy and Administration, is blogging about her summer in Geneva, Switzerland working at the World Health Organization. Link to blog.
Blog for the online course Principles and Methods of Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology: "My Favorite Diseases." Link to blog
Deans Rimer (SPH) and Roper (SOM) are both blogging, some of which is about global health. Read more (Rimer blog | Roper blog).
More blogs...

Highlights

Our interactive map shows where our SPH faculty are working around the world. Also, see a list of UNC global health projects we have compiled.

We have webstreamed many of our seminars from 2007-08. Check them out!
UNC SPH on Facebook

See video interviews of our global health students (Anu Gomez, Somen Saha, Byron Komlnek, Wendy Camelo).

Photos of the first international fashion show sponsored by the Student Global Health Committee.

This Week in Global Health is a weekly email newsletter sent out by the Office of Global Health. To receive it, please email OGH.
UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases

News

Nineteen receive global health graduate certificates
June 10, 2008

Nineteen University of North Carolina students have received Graduate Certificates in Global Health this spring.

The certificate program, administered by the School of Public Health’s Office of Global Health, prepares UNC residential graduate students to work in changing environments and with diverse populations. [more]

UNC research projects funded in Vietnam, Siberia and Nicaragua
June 10, 2008

The School of Public Health’s Office of Global Health has awarded three grants totaling $40,000 to faculty members in public health, anthropology and medicine. [more]

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What is Global Health?
Global Health may be defined as "health problems that transcend national boundaries, that may be influenced by circumstances or experiences in other countries, and that are best addressed by cooperative actions, and solutions; whether they occur in developing countries, countries in advanced transition, or industrialized countries." Research interests of some of the faculty and students in the UNC School of Public Health include infectious diseases, immigrant health, water resource planning, bioethics, infant nutrition, reproductive health, domestic violence, and obesity.

Source: Institute of Medicine, America’s Vital Interest in Global Health, Washington DC, National Academies Press, 1997.

For more on "What is Global Health", please visit Families USA.

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Last updated July 16, 2008


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