The University of Notre Dame has a deep and rich tradition of research and training programs focused on reducing the burden of tropical infectious diseases around the globe ...

Research Professor Katherine Taylor, PhD, Director of Operations of the Eck Institute for Global Health (EIGH) at the University of Notre Dame has been selected President-elect of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) ...

Making progress researching a deadly virus is no small feat. Doctoral candidate and Eck Institute for Global Health Fellow Emmanuel Adu-Gyamfi has become the champion of the disease ...

Faculty members of the Eck Institute for Global Health have placed three recent doctoral recipients at the United States’ National Institute for Health (NIH) ...

The Eck Institute for Global Health (EIGH) has recently awarded funds to support four global health pilot research projects.  Each project will receive $40,000 over a two-year period to complete its research ...

Students and faculty filled the CoMo lounge to watch “Global Health as a Bridge to Security” live-streamed from Washington, DC by the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) on Friday, November 2 ...

Eck Institute for Global Health Fellow Ling Sun, along with Assistant Professor Philippe Sucosky, was the lead author on a recent publication in the open access journal PLoS (available here) ...

On Wednesday, October 24, 2012, Eileen Franke Villasante, PhD, CAPT MSC USN, who currently serves as Head of the Malaria Department at the Naval Medical Research Center in Silver Spring, Maryland, gave the Eck Institute for Global Health Colloquium lecture...

Nick Geraci, a fourth year doctoral student and Eck Institute for Global Health Fellow, and Rachel Cotton, a Junior Biological Sciences major will be in Brazil to attend the Woods Hole Biology of Parasitism Course in November ...

A new study conducted by a team of scientists led by Giles Duffield, assistant professor of biological sciences and a member of the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame, focuses on the circadian clock of...

The National Academy of Engineering and the United States Institute of Peace held a roundtable discussion titled "Sensing and Shaping Emerging Conflicts" on October 11, 2012 ...

The 4th International Conference of Crisis Mappers (ICCM), hosted by the World Bank Headquarters and George Washington University, was held on October 11-14, 2012, in Washington, DC ...

Ebola! The Fall 2012 Global Health Colloquium kicked off student presentations on September 19, 2012 with a heavy dose of Ebola and Marburg Hemorrhagic Fevers ...

University of Notre Dame entomologists are part of a team of researchers that recently discovered a potentially dangerous new malaria-transmitting mosquito. The as-yet-unnamed, and previously unreported, mosquito breeds in the western areas of Kenya and has an unknown DNA match...

Olaf Rodriguez hit the ground running when he arrived at Notre Dame in the Fall of 2011.  Coming to Notre Dame and being part of the Multicultural Student Program and Service’s Building Bridges Program launched him toward unique opportunities ......

Researchers Patricia A. Champion and Matthew Champion from the University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health have developed a method to directly detect bacterial protein secretion, which could provide new insights into a variety of diseases including tuberculosis...

Director of Training for the Eck Institute for Global Health at Notre Dame, Joseph Bock, PhD, introduces his new book, "The Technology of Non-Violence."

Through a competitive process, the Eck Institute for Global Health has selected seven outstanding University of Notre Dame PhD candidates who will receive fellowships for the 2012-2013 year ...

Marya Lieberman, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame, has collaborated with faculty and students to demonstrate advances in paper analytical devices (PAD) to test for counterfeit drugs ...

Despite widespread drought across much of the United States, West Nile virus is on the upswing. A mild winter, followed by a wet spring, allowed mosquito populations to build up early this season ...

Joseph G. Bock, director of global health training and teaching professor in the Eck Institute for Global Health and the University of Notre Dame’s liaison to Catholic Relief Services, recently published “The Technology of Nonviolence: Social Media and Violence Prevention”...

Saturday, July 28, 2012 was an historic moment in the history of Notre Dame Science. The Eck Institute for Global Health graduated our first class of Master of Science in Global Health ...

A new paper by Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey, professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, discusses the biology of tumor-derived microvesicles and their clinical application as circulating biomarkers. Microvesicles are membrane-bound sacs released by tumor cells and can be...

Turns out it’s not bad being top dog, or in this case, top baboon. A new study by University of Notre Dame biologist Beth Archie and colleagues from Princeton and Duke Universities finds that high-ranking male baboons recover more quickly...

The University of Notre Dame’s Graduate School recognized 389 master’s and 87 doctoral degree recipients and presented several awards during Commencement ceremonies Saturday (May 19) in the Compton Family Ice Arena ...

Congratulations to Notre Dame’s 2009 Eck Institute for Global Health Fellow Geoffrey Siwo upon receiving the 2012 IBM Ph.D. Scholarship from the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Program.  Siwo works under the tutelage of, Eck Institute for Global Health member and Associate Professor...

Wednesday, April 25, 2012, marks World Malaria Day.  Notre Dame scientists from the Eck Institute for Global Health and colleagues from around the world are trying to address this disease. Though malaria might not necessarily be “in your back yard,”...

The University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health is now a full member of the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Consortium, led by Indiana University ...

Changde Cheng, a former fellow of the Eck Institute for Global Health, was chosen for the April 2012 cover issue of Genetics and highlighted by the editors with commentary by Mark Kirkpatrick ...

Congratulations to Mike Ferdig, John Tan, and doctoral student, Becky Miller, for their manuscript being published in the journal Science. Well deserved recognition for new innovations to fight against malaria.