The University of Notre Dame’s Edwin Michael, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, is part of a select group of individuals invited to form a new consortium to use mathematical modelling to...

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University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health faculty and students had a strong presence at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) in New Orleans, LA ...

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Master of Science in Global Health student Gwyneth (“Wyn”) Sullivan, ’14, was recently invited to present an abstract at the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s annual conference in New Orleans ...

Master of Science in Global Health student Gwyneth (“Wyn”) Sullivan, ’14, was recently invited to present an abstract at the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s annual conference in New Orleans ...

Two University of Notre Dame faculty who are members of the Eck Institute for Global Health were featured on National Public Radio’s Science Friday ...

Geoffrey Siwo, PhD, who was a member of the Eck Institute for Global Health in the laboratory of Notre Dame Professor Michael Ferdig, PhD, and whose research was supported during his EIGH Fellowship, is featured in the fall issue of...

The Master of Science in Global Health Class of 2015 is a healthy 28 students. During the first three years of the one-year professional masters program the classes numbered 14, 19 and 17, respectively. With additional students, there is a...

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The 2014 Paul P. Weinstein Memorial Lecture presented by the Eck Institute for Global Health featured alumnus Bernard Nahlen, ’75, MD, Deputy Coordinator of the President's Malaria Initiative for USAID of the Bureau of Global Health, Infectious Diseases and Nutrition.

This fall, two alumni, whose careers were dedicated to the Public Health Service, Brian McCarthy ‘68, MD, and Philip Coyne ’76, MD, returned to Notre Dame to share their lifes’ work with the Eck Institute for Global Health’s Master of...

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A gift from Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center (SJRMC) to the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health (EIGH) has been supporting a Global Health Research Associate (GHRA) in Haiti for the past year ...

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The largest outbreak of the Ebola virus in history currently occurring in West Africa has raised fears that the disease may soon spread to the United States. However, a University of Notre Dame researcher who studies the virus believes that,...

On Saturday, July 26, 2014, the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Heath held its third Commencement Exercise, graduating 17 students with the professional degree of Master of Science in Global Heath ...

This month, we checked in with two members of the subgroup ASTMH Committee on Global Health (ACGH) to learn more about what draws them to the Society and to gain their perspective on some of the big issues in tropical...

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Keshava Mysore has been selected for a Postdoctoral Travel Award from the Society for Developmental Biology (SBD).  He will present his paper, role of semaphorin-1a in the developing visual system of the disease vector mosquito Aedes aegypti, at the 73rd Annual...

While the Caribbean braces itself and addresses the rapid emergence and spread of the chikungunya virus, Notre Dame scientists and alumni in the field continue their monitoring, tracking, and planning for this crippling disease to potentially hit the US ...

Eck Institute for Global Health faculty member receives Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Exploration grant after having initial funding from the Institute. Notre…

ASTMH President Alan Magill, MD, FASTMH, and seven members of the Society’s leadership took to Capitol Hill on Monday, May 5 for meetings with 13 Congressional offices. The meetings followed the Mid-Year ASTMH Council meeting. In small groups, ASTMH leaders...

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame have a long history of leadership in fighting the battle of man vs. mosquito.  Recently, Notre Dame announced a $23 million dollar research grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to show...

The Ebola virus outbreak this week is challenging World Health Organization (WHO) officials around the world. On Wednesday, 67 WHO disease professionals have been mobilized to prevent further spread of Ebola and address the infection in hopes of stopping the...

University of Notre Dame biologists Nicole Achee and Neil Lobo are leaders of an international $23 million research grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation ...

A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other drug-resistant bacteria that threaten public health ......

The Global Health Colloquium kicked off the 2014 Spring semester with a special presentation by Karen A. Goraleski, Executive Director of the American Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH). Her lecture, “The Scientist as an Advocate: It’s a New...