Welcome

The UC San Diego Global Health Institute (GHI), is a UC San Diego campus-wide effort that aims to coordinate existing global health research and training efforts across the campus, and to generate new collaborations and educational programs to meet health challenges of global importance. Our goal is to serve as a resource for coordinating UC San Diego global health projects, courses, research, and training programs for the local global health community.

Mission Statement

HIV counselors in Malawi

Think. Act. Impact.

In a world with constantly shrinking borders, global health is a growing concern. The University of California, San Diego is making an international impact with research and health care programs around the globe that fight diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.

Our Mission

The mission of the UC San Diego Global Health Institute is to facilitate research, education and public-private partnerships across diverse disciplines to address global health challenges in the 21st century, and to serve as a coordinating body for training programs, service and global health-related curricula.

The Global Health Institute's themes of focus:

Global Infectious Diseases
Global Health Technologies
Global Mental Health
Global Migrant/Refugee Health

Global Health News and Events

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• Virtual Summit 9/24/20 9am-1pm, Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Refugee and Immigrant Communities hosted by the Northern Virginia Coalition for Refugee Wellbeing

• Behrouz Boochani Just Wants to Be Free, by Megan Stack

• Public health and medical experts write letter urging DHS Secretary Wolf and Attorney General Barr to deny the dangerous rule proposed July 9th 2020

• The Illusion of Inclusion- The "All of Us" Research Program and Indigenous Peoples' DNA, by Dr. Keolu Fox

• Anti-racism statement by the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner, June 2020

• CCIS event by Dr. Al-Rousan 6/8/20 12-1:30pm: Refugees must not be left behind in the global COVID response: Public health perspectives, register here

•Webinar 5/6/20, 8-10am: Structural Competency During COVID-19 Part 3: Global Responses

• GHI collaborations January 2020: UNHCR meeting to enhance health screening training for providers working at the border

Coronavirus/COVID-19

• Dr. Fauci: COVID-19 and its global impact on AIDS, TB and malaria, hosted by Friends of the Global Fight

• UCSD Health COVID-19 Virtual Grand Rounds

• UCSD COVID-19 Projects

• Psychological First Aid, special report from Mayo Clinic

• Q & A with Dr. Chip Schooley on how SARS-CoV-2 spreads, vaccine trials underway and more

• Race, COVID-19 and deaths of despair, commentary in EClinicalMedicine

• Coronavirus Resources, curated by the Center for Globoal Mental Health (CGMH) at UCSD

• Coronavirus in the Navajo Nation, a CBS news documentary

• COVID-19 treatment for Navajo, Zuni, and Apache Peoples, a report from Dr. Don Kraitsik

• How mental health care should change as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Contextualizing Coronavirus Geographically, a special virtual issue of the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

• COVID-19: Another Unforced Error, presented by Dr. Schooley at Grand Rounds

• COVID-19: The Tip of the Ice Berg, presented by virologist Dr. Ho

• COVID-19: A Coordinated Boston-wide Response, presented at MGH Grand Rounds

• Confronting Coronavirus, a PBS NewsHour Special

Global Health Opportunities

UCGHI Student Ambassadors Program

See 2020 program presentations and learn more about the application cycle that begins Fall 2020.

HFIT Clinic

The UCSD Health Frontiers (HFiT) is a student run free clinic located in Tijuana's Zona Centro. Fall 2020 applications due September 1, 2020.

UCGHI GloCal Health Fellowship

Looking for individuals interested in HIV research, non-HIV-related mental health research and other global health priority research areas such as women's health, planetary health and non-communicable diseases. Now accepting applications for the 2021-22 program. Deadline to apply is November 2, 2020.

UCSD Global Health Entities

"The CDIPD targets diseases affecting hundreds of millions of people worldwide, but which are largely ignored by traditional drug and vaccine discovery companies because they primarily affect the poor and underserved".

"The CGMH seeks to collectively find ways to improve care and treatment for mental health since currently, such healthcare systems are inadequate worldwide".

"The IPATH center is the first dedicated phage therapy center in North America, bringing innovative research and clinical practice to the field of medicine".

"The GHP offers interdisciplinary degrees (BA, BS and MA) that aid in the understanding and productively intervening in processes of health, illness, and healing across the globe".

See resources to learn more

"The CGT and its Pacific Leadership Fellowship program focus on academic inquiry and policy analysis of international issues".

Additional UCSD global health entities