Eck Institute for Global Health

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 ...

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.

The Eck Institute for Global Health joins the College of Engineering to congratulate Dr. Philippe Sucosky on his prestigious 2012 National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. Dr. Sucosky is a faculty member of the Eck Institute and...

EIGH director David Severson joined EIGH member Fr. Tom Streit for dinner with Dr. Donald Hopkins before Hopkins presented "Building Hope and Fighting Disease at the Grassroots: Focus on Disease Eradication and Elimination" on Wednesday, March 28, 2012.

Joshua Shrout, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Geological Sciences and member of the Eck Institute for Global Health, was recently named a 2012 Associate Advisor to Science Translational Medicine, a sister journal of Science. http://stm.sciencemag.org/…

A new study by University of Notre Dame biologist Michael Pfrender and a team of researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno; Utah State University; and the University of Virginia suggests that snakes from different regions of the world have...

University of Notre Dame Professor Jeff Schorey, associate director of the Eck Institute for Global Health and a member of the Center for Rare and Neglected Diseases, is part of a team of researchers who received one of 10 new...

Research was published this week showing that silk produced by transgenically-engineered silkworms in the laboratory of Malcolm Fraser Jr., professor of biological sciences at University of Notre Dame, exhibits the highly sought-after strength and elasticity of spider silk ...

The Department released its first Global Health Strategy. The Strategy will guide our efforts and commitment to work with global partners towards building a healthier and safer planet for all.

A webcase of the opening session of the 2011 Global Health Conference held in montreal, Canada, November 13-15 is available. We highly recommend the talk by Romeo Dallaire - it is absolutely riveting. View here…

Molly Lipscomb, assistant professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, and Laura Schechter and Jean-François Houde, economists at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, hope to increase the accessibility of sanitation technology in poor neighborhoods, making sanitation services more...

Olaf Wiest, professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, is serving as an associate editor of the American Chemical Society”s Journal of Organic Chemistry, the leading journal in the field with more than 91,000 citations last year ...

This 30 minute video is a collaborative effort highlighting the role of compassion in global health. Featuring global health leaders and educators from around the world to dialogue about the value of seeing the faces of people helped through public...

University of Notre Dame faculty and students joined colleagues at an inaugural symposium on Compassion in Global Health during the annual meeting of American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTHM) this week in Philadelphia ...

Professor Malcom Fraser has been awarded a five year $2,989,065 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop novel approaches to the control of several of the world’s most pervasive viral diseases: Yellow Fever, Dengue and Chikungunya ...

Shahriar Mobashery, a University of Notre Dame researcher, is one of the co-authors of a new paper by a group of the world’s leading scientists in academia and industry that calls for strong steps to be taken to control the...

Congratulations Zach! Zach is also a faculty member of the Eck Institute for Global Health. This is the second highly prestigous grant award made this month to our early carreer faculty. Watch for great things to come from these very...

Most winners of the DREAM Challenge, an international competition in systems biology, are teams of Ph.D.-level scholars—computer scientists from major universities as far-flung as Singapore, Switzerland, Italy, and Sweden. This year, the winning team is from Notre Dame.

Results of a study by a group of University of Notre Dame researchers represent a promising step on the road to developing new drugs for a variety of neurological diseases.

Eck Institute for Global Health faculty Dr. Robert Stahelin appointed to editorial board of Chemistry and Physics of Lipids