Professor Vania Smith-Oka, an Eck Institute for Global Health faculty affiliate, received a 2022 Society for Medical Anthropology honorable mention for her new book Becoming…

In October, Admiral Christopher W. Grady, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joined faculty members at the University of Notre Dame for an update on the University’s research activities. Admiral Grady, a 1984 graduate of Notre Dame,...

Sixty percent of children under five in India have anemia. A recent policy write-up by Eck Institute for Global Health affiliate …

New research from the University of Notre Dame shows for the first time that the sourcing strategy chosen by hospitals impacts the quality of patient care. When hospitals move closer to a single-sourcing strategy, patients receive better evidence-based care. 

Aurel Holzschuh is a current graduate fellow of the Eck Institute for Global Health (EIGH). He has a BSc…

EIGH representation at the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene's 2022 Annual Meeting in Seattle, Washington Dr. Benedicte Fustec, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame, presented, The Remote Emerging Disease Intelligence-NETwork (REDI-NET):…

Thanks to new funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), researchers will co-create new tests and technologies alongside community health workers. “The current system for discovering lead hazards in homes treats children like test instruments,” says Marya…

A partnership being developed between the Pokagon Band and the Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI) hopes to help raise awareness of the importance of screening and early detection to address measurable disparities in cancer treatment outcomes involving Native Americans.

Felipe Santiago-Tirado is an Assistant Professor from the Department of Biological Sciences and is an affiliate of the Eck Institute…

Nine PhD students at the University of Notre Dame have joined the Eck Institute for Global Health as graduate…

Notre Dame engineers have joined forces with microbiologists at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, to further investigate a promising strategy for managing cystic fibrosis lung infections. Cystic fibrosis, an inherited disease that causes patients’ airways to fill with a thick...

In this study lead by Chen and Bibby, a model-based framework was used to predict the likelihood of detecting Monkeypox in wastewater under various circumstances.

Although it first appeared in the West Nile region of Uganda, West Nile virus is now the leading cause of mosquito-borne disease in the continental United States. Last year, twelve Indiana residents fell ill with the virus and…

Editors with the American Chemical Society’s Environmental Science and Technology Letters (ES&T) selected the article,“Fluorinated Compounds in North American Cosmetics,” as one of the top five best papers in the journal.

During fiscal year 2022, researchers at the University of Notre Dame received $244 million in research award funding, surpassing the previous record of $222.7 million set in fiscal year 2021.

In a recent paper, Santiago-Tirado and his colleagues describe a gene they discovered that increases the chance for drug resistance in the fungi Cryptococcus neoformans.

An experimental drug created at the University of Notre Dame for diabetic foot ulcers, (R)-ND-336, also improved pressure ulcers, a new paper by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery has shown.

The Eck Institute for Global Health, an interdisciplinary institute within Notre…

Rebecca Chase is a 2020 graduate of the Master of Science in Global Health (MSGH) program. Her undergraduate degree is from Salisbury University with a major in Community Health Education and a minor in Ethnic and Intercultural Studies. In this spotlight,…

A new study conducted at the University of Notre Dame unraveled a mystery scientists had previously not been able to pinpoint: There is an order to how disease-causing substrates, or  “cargo,” cross a similar bacteria’s unique two-walled membrane.