Eck Institute for Global Health
Mission
The University of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health is a university-wide enterprise that recognizes health as a fundamental human right and endeavors to promote research, training, and service to advance health standards for all people, especially people in low and middle-income countries, who are disproportionately impacted by preventable diseases.
Members of the Eck Institute for Global Health are working to address global health challenges through basic and applied research. Notre Dame is a world leader in vector research and is home to VectorBase and VecNET.
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News
Researchers Use Light to Manipulate Mosquitoes
June 19, 2017
Scientists at the University of Notre Dame have found that exposure to just 10 minutes of light at night suppresses biting and manipulates flight behavior in the Anopheles gambiae mosquito, the major vector for transmission of malaria in Africa, according to new research published in the journal Parasites and Vectors.
The power of computational modeling to combat diseases
May 26, 2017
For people living in the US, the Zika epidemic of 2016 seemed to have come out of nowhere and to have now almost disappeared. Zika infections and microcephaly in newborns were daily headline news. Now where are we?
Alex Perkins, PhD, Eck Family Assistant Professor in the Department of…
Events
Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference
Fri Aug 25, 2017
The University of Notre Dame's Eck Insitute for Global Health will sponsor the 24th Annual MMPC on campus. …
Midwest Microbial Pathogenesis Conference
Sat Aug 26, 2017
The University of Notre Dame's Eck Insitute for Global Health will sponsor the 24th Annual MMPC on campus. …
