Global health at the Gillings School remains strong and more important than ever, as COVID-19 has helped underscore the interconnectedness of our world.
Global health at the Gillings School remains strong and more important than ever, as COVID-19 has helped underscore the interconnectedness of our world.
We continue to grow our areas of global strength in nutrition; infectious disease epidemiology; water, sanitation and hygiene (WaSH); health behavior; and sexual and reproductive health.
We maintained our global work in the face of COVID-19, with our work spanning 45+ countries focusing on a wide range of health problems, settings and approaches. More than 80 of the 240 faculty members at Gillings focus on global health, working across our eight departments. In FY 21-22, our funding for research that included global components was $118 million, making up about 42% of total funding to the Gillings School.
In keeping with UNC’s commitment to the Global Guarantee to make a transformative global education available to all students, we offer over 40 courses with global content, and the MPH Core integrates global and local content. We had over 200 international students from 46 countries. 77 students received over $130k in travel awards for practicum, conferences and research.
We continue to maintain strong partnerships to offer student research and practice opportunities with FHI 360, IntraHealth International, RTI International, UNC-Wits partnership, CDC Dengue Branch, CDC Foundation, Male Contraceptive Initiative, and UNC Gillings Zambia Hub with UNC Global Women’s Health.
With the support of the Gillings Global Health Advisory Committee, we finalized an eight-year strategic plan for global health at Gillings. This plan, which was endorsed by the Dean’s Council, outlines goals for global programming in research, training and practice that will be led by our Gillings Global Health office.
