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    Center for Global Health

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The Center for Global Health proactively engages with a wide range of partners around the world to create educational programs, collaborative research initiatives, and health promotion interventions to help solve today’s most critical global health problems.

We work in close collaboration with our College of Integrated Health Sciences faculty, partner organizations based here in the Capital Region, including the New York State Department of Health, and global partners from around the world to create meaningful learning experiences and to fund innovative collaborative research opportunities and program interventions focused on key global health challenges. The Center also plays a vital role in helping the School’s numerous international students as they integrate into life here at the university and into their new communities.

 

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A Commitment to Good Health

Promoting and ensuring good health is vital not just to the growth and stability of individuals and their families. Good health is also vital to the economic growth and social stability of nations and the world as a whole.

At the Center for Global Health, we believe that working collaboratively across borders and cultures to address today’s global health challenges is an imperative of our time.

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News and Events
Labika Baral stands outside of her internship site.
MD/MPH student Labika Baral’s Study Abroad Experience
Labika Baral is interning in Pokhara, Nepal with the Infectious and Communicable Diseases Hospital under the Ministry of Social Development and Health for Gandaki Province. For her internship, she is evaluating the implementation of the electronic medical record system.
Zari Ward stands in Uganda next to the Ugandan coat of arms.
MPH Student Evaluates Public Health Programs in Ddegeya Village, Uganda
For the past three months, Master of Public Health student Zari Ward interned with Engeye Health Clinic in Ddegeya Village, Uganda, where she evaluated the progress and success of public health programs.
Students on comparative health system exchange with University of Costa Rica
Fall 2023 Global Health Seminar on Living and Working Abroad / Careers in Global Health
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Join the Center for Global Health for this non-credit bearing seminar to learn from and network with experienced global health professionals, as well as like-minded students and global citizens here in the Capital Region.
A portrait of Aicha and UNFPA staff.
UAlbany Summer: MPH Student Aids Sexual Reproductive Health Efforts in Togo, West Africa
This summer, Master of Public Health (MPH) student Aicha Akindele interned with the Togolese branch of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), where she supported efforts to improve sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, and population data.
Afra'a presenting at UAlbany Showcase. She stands in front of a screen displaying her presentation.
Undergraduate Student Pushes for Increased Awareness on Sustainability Issues
Public Health major Afra’a Kolaib recently worked with the College of Integrated Health Sciences and the Office of Sustainability to conduct a comprehensive research project to better understand the campus community’s knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to sustainability.
Center for Global Health
John Justino
Director
Room 212

1 University Place
Rensselaer, NY 12144
United States

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