Eck Institute for Global Health

Katie Kralievits, ’13, MS ’14, attended the international launch of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery (LCoGS) at the Royal Society of Medicine in London, UK, on April 27 and 28, 2015 ...

On April 25, Nepal was hit by a 7.9 magnitude earthquake killing thousands of people with experts predicting the final toll to surpass 10,000. Millions have been affected, immediately and in the aftermath as disease and shortages spread. It will...

Notre Dame alumnus James Curran, MD, MPH, Dean of the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University and endowed chair in public health, has recently joined the Eck Institute for Global Health’s Master of Science in Global Health Advisory...

Matthew Eng, a doctoral student in the laboratory of University of Notre Dame’s Professor of Biological Sciences David Severson and Director of the Eck Institute for Global Health, is the recipient of a Grants-in-aid-of-research (GIAR) given by the Sigma Xi Research...

The University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health is partnering with the Peace Corps to offer financial help to returned Peace Corps Volunteers. The joint program will provide an annual scholarship of $12,000 to qualifying returned Peace Corps...

The University of Notre Dame’s Edwin Michael, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences and member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, is working with an international team of researchers to project how climate change will affect mosquitoes, flies and ticks,...

Members of the ND Unite to Fight Ebola team on campus were notified over the weekend that the shipping container they raised funds for last fall arrived at long last in Liberia ...

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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 ...

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...