Global Health Education Blog

The poorest communities of Africa, Asia and Latin America suffer from more than 80 percent of the global burden of disease and death.

Read Dr. Bob Bollinger's Post on The Blog for Huffington Post

Enduring personal suffering: Awio Henry's Kony 2003 story and how a power outage can illuminate.  

ICT provides new opportunities for medical student education in the US, Ethiopia, Uganda and Malaysia.

Secretary Sebelllius visits Pune, to highlight 20+ years of NIH-supported Hopkins health research partnerships in India.

Yesterday, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation hosted a meeting in Washington, DC to discuss the role of the  US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in global health and to highlight the release of a new report on The Global Health Strategy of the HHS. To read this report, click here.  

On Friday 9 December 2011 the CCGHE, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, hosted an event to launch our new distance education course for clinicians focused on the prevention and management of gender-based violence.  A live video link was established between Hopkins, Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and Makerere College of Health Sciences in Uganda.

On Tuesday, 29 November 2011, the CCGHE will support the first Ugandan-Ethiopian collaborative distance learning program.  This unique program is supported by the Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI).  MEPI is a $130 million 5 year program, supported by the US Presidents Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), providing funding to more than 30 top medical schools in 12 African countries.  The goal of MEPI is to develop novel and effective approaches to train >150,000 clinicians in Africa and to meet the increasing health care needs of the continent.