By collaborating with the University of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health and Harper Cancer Research Institute, Torrorey hopes to pinpoint the unique characteristics that make breast cancer more aggressive in Kenyan women, and by doing so, find better...

The Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) was recently awarded a $375,000 contract from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to conduct an evaluation of MCC’s water project in Ghana ...

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The Eck Institute for Global Health has awarded seven Fellowships for the 2013-2014 academic year. Congratulations to Callan Driscoll, Quirine ten Bosch, and Victoria Smith who are all first time recipients. Renewing for this year are Lindsay Turnbull, Emily Williams,...

New research at the University of Notre Dame looks more closely at the effects of the influenza vaccine on the elderly, who are considered the highest-risk group for influenza-related mortality ...

In Eldoret, Kenya, the harm imposed by substandard or counterfeit medicine is all too real. Unscrupulous manufacturers or distributors replace expensive medicines with cheaper, less effective ones - or even worthless maize meal or chalk. This type of activity is...

The University of Notre Dame has a long and rich tradition of research and training programs focused on reducing the burden of tropical infectious diseases around the globe. In honor of that tradition, the University established the George B. Craig,...

A new study by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers, which appears in the Sept. 2 edition of the journal PLoS ONE, is a significant step in understanding the molecular genetic and physiological basis for a spectrum of...

In work published this week in Nature: Scientific Reports, a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health, led by Associate Professor Giles Duffield and Assistant Professor Zain Syed of the Department of Biological...

University of Notre Dame researchers, as part of a collaborative effort, have identified a protein that potentially could be a target for drugs that that would help people recover faster from jet lag and better adjust their circadian rhythms during...

Breast cancer is a major health problem worldwide, and the incidence of the disease is rising across Africa ...

Biting mosquitoes are not only annoying but can be dangerous, even deadly. A new study involving researchers at the University of Notre Dame explores a potential biological mechanism through which disease virus can alter the behavior of mosquitoes ...

Thanks to Fr. Tom Streit, CSC, & Dr. Marie Denise Milord at the Haiti program for supporting the MSGH students. view the Haiti Program's summer newsletter here…

The Report is out! The EIGH is excited to be in partnership with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Catholic Health Association (CHA) in support of the newly formed Health Systems Strengthening Initiative ...

Passion. Commitment. Service to humanity: “Strong Bodies Fight, that weak bodies may be nourished.” This is Notre Dame ...

Over 250 scientists from around the world attended the 2013 Arthropod Genomics Symposium and VectorBase Workshop. For the first time the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame hosted this annual event of professional scientists and researchers...

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Transforming the way we look at lymphatic filariasis will improve the way we look at parasite eradication on a global scale. The Eck Institute for Global Health supports research being done by Notre Dame Professor Edwin Michael, PhD ...

Congratulations to Geoffrey Siwo, a doctoral candidate in the laboratory of Eck Institute for Global Health member Michael Ferdig, PhD, as more accolades are bestowed upon him. Siwo was selected for a 2013 entrepreneurial summer program at Singularity University ...

The Eck Institute for Global Health is hosting the 2013 Arthropod Genomics Symposium and VectorBase Workshop Wednesday-Saturday (June 12-15) at McKenna Hall at the University of Notre Dame ...

An international team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health and Imperial College London has recently published its work on a malaria-filaria co-transmission model, where the same mosquito transmits both diseases together ...

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Three Notre Dame Science alumni participated in a panel discussion, “From ND Labs on Campus to Life in the Real World: How Notre Dame Scientists are Making a Difference,” on June 1, during Alumni Reunion Weekend ...

The Eck Institute for Global Health's Joe Bock, PhD, Director of Global Health Training, will present the keynote address at Portland State University's conference, "Promoting Nonviolence, Addressing Hate & Preventing Global Conflicts: The Role of Media Outlets" ...

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EIGH faculty, students, and staff attended the ever growing and popular Consortium of Universities for Global Health in Washington, DC, last March.

Payam Nahid, MD, MPH, Associate Professor in Residence, UCSF School of Medicine, presented the Eck Institute for Global Health Scholars Lecture on March 20, 2013, titled: “TB Biomarker Research Strategy: The Way Forward” ...

Special thanks to Nydia Morales-Soto, postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of EIGH member Joshua Shrout, PhD, for leading the EIGH's inaugural event: "Imaging Technologies in Research: Imagine What You Can Do" ...

Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in Haiti has asked the University of Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development (NDIGD) to assist in conducting the Year 2 final evaluation for its cholera prevention and treatment program in Haiti ...