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Read the latest news from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Havey Institute for Global Health. The links below take you to articles where you can learn more about our members’ latest achievements, discoveries and honors. To view past Institute newsletters and other announcements, visit here. Subscribe to our listserv to receive all Institute communications here.

Working at Full Capacity

Research capacity is a key component to the critical work being done by the Havey Institute for Global Health Center for Communicable and Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Hepatitis B Network Addresses Key Research Gaps in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Center for Global Communicable and Emerging Infectious Diseases team, led by its director Claudia Hawkins, MD, MPH, is leading collaborative efforts in Africa to provide critically needed data about Hepatitis B prevention, care and knowledge to benefit communities in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

Gerardin Leads Team to Reduce Global Malaria Burden

Within the Center for Global Communicable & Emerging Infectious Diseases, the Malaria Modeling team focuses on reducing malaria burden through the application of analytics and modeling.

Global Health Day Highlights International Collaboration and Health Systems Improvement

Northwestern investigators, faculty, students and community partners celebrated global health research, education and outreach during the 13th annual Global Health Day by the Havey Institute for Global Health, held on December 6, 2024.

The winning team at the Global Health Day Intramural Global Health Case Competition

Students Compete in Intramural Global Health Case Competition

Students across Northwestern competed in an intramural Global Health Case Competition for the 13th annual Global Health Day, hosted by the Havey Institute for Global Health and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences Global Health Studies Program.

Center for Global Oncology Unveils Mobile Clinic for HPV Testing

The new Health on the Roll mobile clinic brings HPV testing and treatment to women in low- and middle-income communities in Mali and Nigeria.

Bridging the Divide: Why Health on the Roll Mobile Clinic Brings New Hope

The Center for Global Oncologyworks to bridge cultural and geographic divides through their mobile clinic program, Health on the Roll.

Learn More About the Work Done by IGH Center for Global Oncology

Cancer kills more people in low- and middle-income countries than HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined. The Center for Global Oncology is working to change that.

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Gravitt Discusses Cancer Health Disparities Research at October IGH Seminar

The October IGH Seminar, co-sponsored by Lurie Cancer Center, featured Patti Gravitt, PhD, MS from the National Cancer Institute.

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Institute Hosts Members of NIH Funded Grant

In October 2024, Havey Institute for Global Health members Kate Klein and Elizabeth Christian and Bethany Ekesa from SPARC hosted Mordecai Tayebwa, Harriet Nambooze, and Peruth Ainembabazi from Makerere University to discuss advanced administrator training.