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CoviDB: Making Meaning out of Chaos

A student-powered initiative to provide trustworthy health information during COVID-19 has had lasting impact on the students and faculty involved.

Students and other volunteers come together over Zoom to discuss COVID-19 resources

Global Impact

A turning point in Nigeria’s fight against cervical cancer

Nigeria has reached a major milestone in its fight against cervical cancer, a top killer of women in Africa’s most populous country. Officials aim to vaccinate 7.7 million girls against HPV by the end of 2024, and Stanford oncologists are supporting the effort.

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Recent News

Planetary Health

A greener future begins with small steps

bidirectional parnterships

Meet Dr. Derbew Fikadu Berhe, University of Global Health Equity researcher, educator, and pharmacologist

Research

Fulbright application sessions for Stanford students

Media Fellowship

Announcing the 2024-25 Global Health Media Fellow: Neha Mukherjee

Global Health Seed Grants

System Changes to Improve Care for Mothers and Newborns

Covid 19

CoviDB: Making meaning out of chaos

Research

Advancing Global Health Equity in the Fight Against TB

bidirectional parnterships

Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment in Africa

Community Building

A turning point in Nigeria’s fight against cervical cancer

Research

How personal experience forged this student’s passion for combating gender-based violence

Advocacy

Podcast: CIGH Director Michele Barry on cultivating women leaders

Jobs

ASTMH: Benjamin Kean Travel Scholarship

Media Fellowship

Global Health Media Fellow reports: How Medical Education is Adapting to Climate Change

Education

Spring Global and Planetary Health Courses at Stanford

Media Fellowship

Media Fellow reports on global obesity study

Education

Spring quarter course explores critical and timely issues in global health

Planetary Health

The rise of arboviral diseases is closely connected to environmental degradation and climate change

Planetary Health

Stanford ID Team Aims to Curb Neglected Parasitic Disease

Research

Call for Proposals: 2024 Stanford Global Health Seed Grants

Media Fellowship

The power of perceived expertise in health communication

Advocacy

Equipping doctors to save lives when resources are scarce

Jobs

Student Job Opportunity: Global Health Teaching Assistant

Planetary Health

CIGH fellows on simple measures to help human and planetary health

News

Applications open for the 2024 Rosenkranz Prize

Research

Bridging Borders for Newborns

Planetary Health

Finding new ways to adapt to a growing weather threat

Advocacy

Media Fellow Mira Cheng publishes story on drug treatment program in S.F. Chronicle

Planetary Health

Understanding how changes in climate and land use affect health

Planetary Health

Protected: From groundwater to wildfires: A search for toxins that impact health

Planetary Health

A sustainable solution to period poverty

Jobs

Global Health Media Fellowship | Applications now open

Advocacy

Preparing for pediatric emergencies at the border

Britt Wray

Embracing the emotions behind climate science

Planetary Health

How climate change impacts decisions to have children

bidirectional parnterships

Announcing a new global health scholars program for African Physicians

Planetary Health

Building a career in climate change and health

Research

In Kenya, emotional violence, mental health found as key obstacles to lifesaving HIV treatments for teenage girls and young women

Planetary Health

Perspective: It’s time to prepare for the potential return of yellow fever

Vulnerable populations

Gary Darmstadt on how kangaroo mother care can help millions of babies each year

Research

Stanford Medicine researchers propose new guidelines for Tuberculosis prevention in prisons

News

Spotlight on Dr. Ana Crawford

Research

5 Questions with Christine Ngaruiya, MD, MSc, DTMH

Jobs

CIGH Job: Global Health Scholars Program Assistant

Jobs

Job Opportunity: Brick Kiln Research Assistant (Stanford)

Planetary Health

Celebrating Women Leaders in Climate and Health

Education

An Interview with Shuvi Jha, Global Health Student Council Co-President

Education

New Resource for Health Professionals to Respond to Climate Concerns

Research

The Lancet launches hub with WHO resources on care of preterm infants

Planetary Health

How climate change exacerbates air pollution (and its health impacts)

Planetary Health

Investigating heart health on a changing planet

Planetary Health

How extreme heat affects vulnerable populations

Planetary Health

Experts discuss how environmental changes are altering the risk for mosquito-borne diseases

Research

Jason Andrews discusses the under-recognized problem of TB in prisons

Planetary Health

Droughts in Western states drive up emissions and threaten human health

Planetary Health

“Nature” publication: A planetary health innovation for disease, food, and water challenges in Africa

Uncategorized

Student Leaders in Global Health: Gabriela Asturias

Jobs

Pandemic Preparedness Fellowship for Post-docs

Planetary Health

Planetary Health Fellow Minghao Qiu quantifies how drought influences fossil fuel plants & human health

Research

New Lancet Public Health publication estimates global TB incidence in prisons

Advocacy

Dr. Lisa Patel pens NY Times opinion on climate change’s impacts on children’s health

2023 Seed Grant Awards

Announcing the 2023 Global Health Seed Grant Awardees

Jobs

Apply for the Stanford Global Child Health Travel Scholarship/ David A. Zlotnick Memorial Scholarship

News

5 questions with Bert Patenaude on saving lives with food and medicine

News

Stanford Medicine Magazine features CIGH faculty working on planetary health

Vulnerable populations

Dr. Paul Wise edits Daedalus issue on “Delivering Humanitarian Health Services in Violent Conflicts”

Advocacy

Addressing the global water crisis through social entrepreneurship

News

Centering mothers and families in the care of low-weight infants

Uncategorized

Newsletter: Spotlight on Global Health Education

Planetary Health

A Call to Action for Gender Equity in Climate Leadership (AJTMH Publication)

Education

Partnering for health equity and global health education

Advocacy

Communications Tools for Doctors and Scientists

Global Health Seed Grants

5 Questions with Dr. Seth Ari Sim-Son Hoffman, Global Health Postdoctoral Affiliate

News

Recording: Dr. Madhu Pai on Equity and Allyship in Global Health

Planetary Health

Michele Barry discusses climate & health with “Exemplars” for Earth Day

Advocacy

5 questions with Dr. Barbara Erny: Educating doctors about climate change

News

Michele Barry Named CUGH Distinguished Leader

Vulnerable populations

Janelle Chavez on Caring for Migrants at the Border

Education

Global Health Student Interview Series: Sruti Paturi

Education

5 Questions on Global Health Education With Yosefa Gilon

Planetary Health

Study deepens link between trash, mosquito-borne disease

Education

Announcing the 2023-24 Global Health Media Fellow: Mira Cheng

Faculty in Focus

Recording: Faculty in Focus with Geoff Tabin

News

How Human Environmental Pressures Exacerbate Disease

Diversity of Leadership

Grand Rounds Recording: Michele Barry on International Women’s Day – WomenLift Health

News

5 Questions with Ana Crawford on the Power of Global Engagement

News

An Interview with Bennett Liu, Global Health Student Council President

Advocacy

New report calls for investment in climate-resilient California school infrastructure

Jobs

CIGH Job Opportunity: Global Health Program Coordinator

Advocacy

Media Fellow Reports on Turkey-Syria Earthquake for CNN

Faculty in Focus

Recording: Faculty in Focus with Eran Bendavid

Vulnerable populations

Ways to support earthquake survivors in Turkey and Syria

Education

Building a new generation of plastic and reconstructive surgeons in Sub-Saharan Africa

Vulnerable populations

Global Health Newsletter: Spotlight on Refugee & Migrant Health

Vulnerable populations

Supporting the mental health of migrant families through trauma-informed parenting classes

Vulnerable populations

Providing high-quality care and understanding

News

Apply for Stanford Health Policy’s Rosenkranz Prize

Planetary Health

Lancet Commentary: A model for comprehensive climate and medical education

Uncategorized

Year-End Letter: The Under-told Stories of 2022

Planetary Health

Funding Opportunity: Realizing Environmental Innovation Program

Faculty in Focus

Dr. Bonnie Maldonado discusses her journey from first-generation college student to renowned pediatric infectious disease specialist and global health leader

Vulnerable populations

Grant to fund initiative to provide cervical cancer screenings to high-risk refugee and migrant women

Jobs

Global Health Media Fellowship | Applications now open

News

Call for abstracts: Stanford Existential Risks Conference

Research

Seeking applications for the Global Health Medical Student Research Fellowship

Education

Winter Global and Planetary Health Courses at Stanford

Faculty in Focus

Recording: Faculty in Focus with Desiree LaBeaud

Vulnerable populations

5 Questions with Dr. Adrienne Sabety on Health Care Access for Undocumented Immigrants

Advocacy

Students at the intersections of climate and health: Jonathan Lu

News

Gary Darmstadt helps update WHO guidelines for care of premature infants

Media Fellowship

Global Health Media Fellow publishes feature story on opioid access in LMICs

Planetary Health

Stanford planetary health experts at COP 27

Families at the Border

Stanford pediatricians collaborate with Tijuana midwives to help babies breathe

News

Dr. Bonnie Maldonado receives highest award from APS for leadership in pediatrics

News

CIGH Director Michele Barry Receives ASTMH Mentorship Award

Planetary Health

Podcast with Desiree LaBeaud on plastic trash and infectious disease

Britt Wray

Planetary Health Fellow Britt Wray’s work on climate and mental health featured in DOM Annual Report

News

Global Health Faculty Fellow Kari Nadeau elected to National Academy of Medicine

Planetary Health

Managing aquaculture for human and planetary health

Planetary Health

5 Questions with Dr. Christopher Gardner on tackling food and health disparities while saving the planet

Diversity of Leadership

Building a Global Pathology Initiative at Stanford

News

Climate Change Related Effects and Mental Health: Advancing the ‘Right to Health’ in Planetary Health

Planetary Health

5 Questions with David Lobell on Food Security in a Warming World

Beyond Stanford

Faculty Fellow Carolyn Bertozzi wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Research

Apply for the Stanford Global Health Postdoctoral Affiliates Program

Education

Online ethics training for short-term global health experiences impacts a generation of practitioners

Research

Revealing the humanitarian toll of sanctions

Planetary Health

5 Questions with Eran Bendavid on the drivers of — and solutions to — food insecurity

News

Seeking Solutions to Complex Health and Environmental Challenges

Jobs

Job alert: TA positions for fall courses

Education

Announcing the 2023-24 Global Health Equity Scholars Fellowship

Planetary Health

Meet Visiting Scholar Oladele Ogunseitan

News

Video: Monkeypox Update – Bay Area and Beyond

Research

Call for Maternal/Child Research Abstracts for MCHRI Symposium

Featured Events

Monkeypox Update | Bay Area and Beyond

Education

Fall Global and Planetary Health Courses at Stanford

Advocacy

Supporting grassroots plastic recycling efforts in coastal Kenya

News

Op-ed highlights vaccine inequity as driver of three current health crises

Families at the Border

Paul H. Wise on working with vulnerable populations in times of crisis

Beyond Stanford

New commentary issues urgent call for advocacy & action in Tigray

Education

Job Opportunity: TA for Environmental Humanities course

Education

New CIGH-led course explores “finding our place on a changing planet”

Planetary Health

Meet Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellow Elaine Flores

Beyond Stanford

New publication offers a path forward for decolonizing Global Health

Education

Meet CIGH Independent Scholar Carlie Arbaugh

Covid 19

Preparing for the viruses we’ve yet to meet

Global Health Seed Grants

Tracking the movement of a dangerous virus through animal milk

Planetary Health

Stanford researchers discuss extreme heat’s impacts on laborers

bidirectional parnterships

Announcing the 2022 Global Health Seed Grant Awardees

Beyond Stanford

Global Aid to Sri Lanka Must Prioritize Health Equity for Minority Tamils

Planetary Health

Announcing new Stanford/LSHTM planetary health fellows

In the Headlines

Antibiotic-resistant typhoid is spreading worldwide, research by Faculty Fellow Jason Andrews finds

News

Jassi Pannu to join 2022 Emerging Leader in Biosecurity Initiative

Covid 19

Jeffrey Glenn receives $69 million to start antiviral drug-discovery center at Stanford

Planetary Health

Stanford researcher discusses climate change and air pollution impacts on children’s health

Education

A scientific writing guide for global health practitioners

Beyond Stanford

NASEM Report: Increase pandemic preparedness by strengthening US quarantine stations

Planetary Health

Recording: Generation Dread – Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis

Featured Events

Health Security Beyond Epidemics

Planetary Health

Health Care Sustainability Seed Grant

Beyond Stanford

Support for Dialysis Patients in Sri Lanka

Beyond Stanford

Ensuring a Trauma-Informed Approach to Accountability for Crimes

Beyond Stanford

Five Questions with Dr. Sherry Wren on Caring for Civilians Injured in War

Britt Wray

Planetary Health Fellow Dr. Britt Wray on the intersection of climate change and mental health

Beyond Stanford

A small pilot project with big impact highlights the value of community-engaged research

Jobs

Student Job Opportunity: Global Health Social Media and Digital Communications Assistant

Planetary Health

Faculty Fellow Dr. Desiree LaBeaud publishes article on community-based strategies to reduce mosquito breeding grounds

Global Health Seed Grants

Community Group Model Building to Identify Systemic Barriers and Facilitators of Postpartum Depression Care Delivery for the Floating Population in Shanghai

Planetary Health

Faculty Fellow Lisa Patel Interviewed About Environmental Justice

Beyond Stanford

Recording: A Global Health Conversation With Dr. Patty J. Garcia

Planetary Health

New funding opportunity: “Healthy Planet, Healthy People” Early-Career Research Awards

Beyond Stanford

Stanford Medicine Grand Rounds: The Climate Crisis and Health

Beyond Stanford

“Decency, humility, and an unwavering commitment to social justice and fighting the good battle to attain it.” Dr. Michele Barry remembers her friend Paul Farmer.

Beyond Stanford

“Getting Better at Getting Better”: A Stanford-India partnership sparks a movement in improving palliative care

Education

Sustainability Resources for Medical Providers

Jobs

Job Posting: Lead for CDC’s Travel and Epidemiology Field Team (QuarTET)

News

Welcome to Maia Nofal, Global Health Equity Scholar

Beyond Stanford

Video: Faculty Fellow Paul H. Wise on Global Conflict and Child Health

News

Washington Post perspective piece on the health risks of plastic waste highlights findings of Stanford Global Health researchers

Jobs

Job Opportunity: Global Health Research Assistant

Beyond Stanford

Faculty Fellow Paul Wise in Poland to Help Child Cancer Patients Fleeing Ukraine

Britt Wray

Planetary Health Fellow Dr. Britt Wray on Coping with COVID and Climate Fatigue

Education

Announcing the 2022-23 Global Health Media Fellow: Janelle Chavez

News

Welcoming our Newest Global Health Track Residents

Beyond Stanford

Commentary: Another Way to Fight Disease: Media Training

Beyond Stanford

Ways to Support Ukrainian Citizens and Refugees

Case Study

Helping Midwives Save Lives at the Border

Beyond Stanford

Climate Change & the Mental Health Crisis Webinar Series

Featured Events

A Global Health Conversation with Dr. Patty J. García

Beyond Stanford

Out of the Pandemic, Accessible Training is Born

Case Study

Dr. Gary Darmstadt publishes new papers on the benefits of traditional infant massage, modified to use sunflower seed oil, to help newborns thrive

Research

Call for Proposals: 2022 Stanford Global Health Seed Grants

Beyond Stanford

5 Questions With Global Health Faculty Fellow Ami Bhatt on Gut Microbiomes in Understudied Places

Beyond Stanford

Saving Lives Through Effective Communication

Education

Student Job Opportunity: Med 233 Teaching Assistant

Education

See our List of Spring Global Health Courses at Stanford

Media Fellowship

Preventing an Opioid Pandemic

Beyond Stanford

A Message from our Center in Memory of Dr. Paul Farmer

News

Global Health Equity Scholar publishes NEJM Catalyst article on decontamination and reuse of N95 masks in LMICS

Research

Grant opportunity through MCHRI: Research on the Structural Racism, Social Injustice and Health Disparities in Maternal and Child Health Pilot Grants

Planetary Health

Predicting schistosomiasis risk on a changing planet

Jobs

Job Opportunity: Program Manager, Luby Lab

Beyond Stanford

Video: CIGH Director Michele Barry leads CFR panel, “Year Three: The Pandemic Continues”

News

Dr. Kari Nadeau and other Stanford global health experts publish “Climate change and global health: A call to more research and more action” in Allergy

Uncategorized

Faculty job opportunities in health policy, sustainable development, and environmental justice now available at Stanford

News

Stanford-Lancet Report on Opioids Led by Global Health Faculty Fellow Keith Humphreys

Jobs

CDC hiring for Division Director, Global Immunization Division, Center for Global Health

In the Headlines

Global Health Faculty Fellow Yvonne Maldonado speaks with PBS Newshour regarding the safety and efficacy of the vaccine for children five and under.

Planetary Health

Stanford scientists find the climate and health impacts of natural gas stoves are greater than previously thought

Research

CIGH Faculty Fellows, Director publish research paper on Rheumatic heart disease care in Uganda

Advocacy

Global Health Faculty Fellow Desiree LaBeaud’s quest to eradicate mosquito-borne illness leads to an unlikely culprit: Plastic trash

News

Global Health Faculty Fellows Named Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigators

Beyond Stanford

Stanford Planetary Health Fellow Dr. Britt Wray Reacts to new Climate Disaster Film, Don’t Look Up

News

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Jobs

Job Opportunity: Executive Assistant to the Senior Associate Dean for Global Health

Diversity of Leadership

Podcast: The Lost Women of Science tells the story of what happens when female scientists aren’t appropriately valued

In the Headlines

To foster health among Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander populations, more research and funding is urgently needed, writes Faculty Fellow Ann Hsing

In the Headlines

Global Health Faculty Fellow Manu Prakash: “We are playing whack-a-mole with variants – and the virus is winning”

Diversity of Leadership

Faculty Fellow Latha Palaniappan discusses how technologies can transform the way doctors and patients interact

Beyond Stanford

Lessons from our Global Colleagues:
Dr. Abel Kakuru

Covid 19

5 Questions with Seema Yasmin on How Information Inequity Impacts Our Health

Research

New Resource: Global Health Research Administration Roadmap

Education

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Planetary Health

Case Study

CIGH Director of Research Dr. Steve Luby shares lessons learned in how to implement solutions to improve public health

News

Ending the pandemic requires global solidarity, not blame, writes Stanford infectious disease fellow Abraar Karan

Covid 19

U.S. surgery rates quickly rebounded following an initial decline during the pandemic, research by Global Health Faculty Fellow Sherry Wren shows.

Jobs

Global Health Media Fellowship | Applications now open

Covid 19

A recent op-ed by Global Health Faculty Fellow Manu Prakash urges government investment in nonprofit drug developers and manufacturers.

Education

Stanford is offering many winter quarter courses in Global Health. See the offerings here!

Education

Welcoming our newest Global Health Resident, Natasha Mehta

Diversity of Leadership

Faculty Fellow Abraham Verghese helps spearhead initiatives to address racial disparities in health care

Planetary Health

How schools can help protect kids from the dangerous impacts of wildfire smoke

Advocacy

Tackling the health impacts of plastics

News

5 Questions: Director Michele Barry on how Climate Impacts Health

Planetary Health

Global Health Spotlight Newsletter: Climate and Health

Planetary Health

Building Human and Planetary Health at Stanford

Education

Winter global health course will explore medical technology & innovation in low-resource settings

Planetary Health

5 Questions with Dr. Marshall Burke on the Costs of Climate Change

Beyond Stanford

Vaccinologist and Tropical Disease Expert Dr. Peter Hotez Discusses Combatting Anti-Vax Ideology and How to Vaccinate the World

Media Fellowship

Global Health Media Fellow publishes CNN story on insulin shortages in Ukraine

Britt Wray

‘I have trouble envisioning the future beyond a year’- Postdoctoral Fellow Britt Wray publishes CNN op-ed on climate change’s impact on the mental health of youth

Beyond Stanford

More than 180 members of the National Academy of Medicine Sign Climate Action Petition

Case Study

Co-Director of Global Pediatric Health Dr. Gary Darmstadt quoted in BBC article on the effects of tummy massages on newborn’s health

Vulnerable populations

Faculty Fellow Lisa Chamberlain to Lead New Office of Child Health Equity

Beyond Stanford

Lancet Countdown report highlights connection between climate and health

Jobs

Apply for the Stanford/LSHTM Planetary Health Postdoctoral Fellowship

Covid 19

New paper by Faculty Fellow Kevin Schulman Global identifies how to adapt proven marketing strategies to promote the COVID-19 vaccine globally

Covid 19

CIGH Director Michele Barry quoted in Stanford Daily article on misinformation and racial disparities as contributing factors to COVID-19

Beyond Stanford

CIGH Faculty Fellow Jason Andrews co-authors publication on incarceration-related mortality in Brazil

Featured Events

A Global Health Conversation With Dr. Peter Hotez: World-Renowned Vaccinologist and Neglected Tropical Diseases Expert

Jobs

Job Opportunity: Senior Program Manager for Global Health Education

Research

CIGH Director Michele Barry co-authors research paper on Rheumatic heart disease care in Sudan

Beyond Stanford

New study finds high levels of climate anxiety in youth

Covid 19

CIGH Director of Research Dr. Steve Luby pens NYTimes Opinion piece on the efficacy of masks in reducing COVID-19

Beyond Stanford

The Lancet obituary honors Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Paul Auerbach

In the Headlines

CIGH Director of Research discusses the threat India’s Nipah Virus outbreak imposes on the rest of the world

Education

August Stanford Climate and Health Newsletter

Covid 19

CIGH Director of Research Dr. Steve Luby and colleagues in Bangladesh study the efficacy of face masks in preventing COVID-19

Covid 19

CIGH Director of Research makes recommendations on curbing threats of the next pandemic

Vulnerable populations

Stanford Resident Dr. Max McClure Note of Solidarity with Evacuees in Afghanistan

Planetary Health

Sean N. Parker Center Receives $10.5 million to assess health impacts of wildfire smoke

Planetary Health

Global Health Faculty Fellow Lisa Patel featured in ABC News story on wildfires

Covid 19

Center for Innovation in Global Health seed grant funds high-impact research on reusing PPE in Low and Middle Income countries

Families at the Border

5 Questions with Dr. Lisa Chamberlain on migrant health beyond the border

Advocacy

ALPHA team calls for improving school air quality during wildfire season in new EdSource article

Beyond Stanford

Stanford Planetary Health Fellow Dr. Britt Wray is quoted in the New York Times on the mental health impacts of climate change

Families at the Border

Awaiting Health Care in Tijuana’s Tent Encampments

Beyond Stanford

Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. S.V. Mahadevan, Indian Actor Amala Akkineni, and TeachAids team up to create an educational video on India and COVID

Beyond Stanford

Stanford Planetary Health Researcher Mary Prunicki’s research on dangerous health effects of wildfire smoke is featured in The Guardian.

Beyond Stanford

Will COVID-19 Make the U.S. Approach to Global Health More Global?

Beyond Stanford

Global Health Faculty Fellow Manu Prakash is profiled for Stanford Magazine

Featured Video

Dr. Michele Barry introduces Dr. Glenda Gray on The COVID-19 Experience in the Republic of South Africa Grand Rounds

Beyond Stanford

CIGH Director Michele Barry co-authors piece on fostering socially responsible overseas collaborations

Diversity of Leadership

WomenLift Health’s Q&A with CIGH Executive Director Allison Phillips

Seed Grants

The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Maternal and Child Health

Seed Grants

Implementation of the ENTRUST Platform for Global Surgical Education and High-Stakes Assessment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC)

Seed Grants

Scaling Sanitation to Safeguard Human and Planetary Health: Designing, Evaluating, and Deploying Urine Separation and Treatment

Global Health Seed Grants

Social-ecological connections between seafood borne disease and food security in the central Pacific

Covid 19

A randomized trial to evaluate low-cost air filtration and ventilation interventions to reduce SARS COV 2 in households

Britt Wray

Local Voices Network: Pilot of an intervention for supporting youth and elders with eco-anxiety in Nigeria, US, UK

Global Health Seed Grants

Effects of improved oxygen management practices and technology on management of retinopathy of prematurity in sub-Saharan Africa

Global Health Seed Grants

Intermittent preventive treatment for malaria in pregnancy: a potential child growth intervention?

Global Health Seed Grants

Implementing a Quality Assurance Program for Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Rwanda

Global Health Seed Grants

Healthy Schools – Diabetes Awareness and Prevention Education in India

Covid 19

Improving healthcare resiliency by enhancing natural ventilation in Liberian healthcare facilities

Global Health Seed Grants

Assessing Salmonella Typhi Contamination of Water in Urban Settings of Liberia

Covid 19

Community Responses and the Impact of the COVID-19 Epidemic in Indigenous Communities in Mexico

Covid 19

Saving Lives Campaign holds a drive to provide COVID-19 vaccinations to Cuba

Covid 19

Finding redemption through criminal justice reform

Beyond Stanford

Noora Health’s lessons from their ongoing COVID-19 response

Diversity of Leadership

The Pandemic Threat to Female Leadership

Covid 19

Global Health Faculty Fellow Manu Prakash is repurposing sleep apnea machines into ventilators to fight the COVID-19 in India

Education

Annual Awards in Medicine recognize Global Health Faculty Fellow Gerald Grant

Diversity of Leadership

Global Health Faculty Fellow Yvonne “Bonnie” Maldonado is honored with the 2021 President’s Award for Excellence Through Diversity

Research

5 Questions with Dr. Andrew Chang on improving heart health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Covid 19

Announcing our 2021 Global Health Seed Grant Awardees

Diversity of Leadership

The Stanford Faculty Women’s Forum awards Global Health Faculty Fellows Cybele Renault and Sarah Soule

Jobs

Job opportunity: Executive Assistant at WomenLift Health

Beyond Stanford

Dr. Ami Bhatt thinks cancer is worth fighting everywhere

WomenLift Health

The Stanford Department of Medicine highlights WomenLift Health in their Annual Report

Planetary Health

Global Health Faculty Fellow Chris Field on how climate change influences migration

Covid 19

Global Health Faculty Fellow Seema Yasmin and Digital Medic collaborate on a new Viral Facts video: COVID-19 Home Care with Limited Resources

Covid 19

Video: the second COVID-19 Q&A for healthcare professionals and families in India

Planetary Health

The need to expand the framework of environmental determinants of cardiovascular health from climate change to planetary health: trial by wildfire

Uncategorized

COVID aid to India: Stanford scientists rally to combat crisis

Covid 19

Answers to questions from Stanford-India COVID-19 Q&A webinar on May 12-13, 2021

Vulnerable populations

Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Daryn Reicherter speaks at the launch of the UNITAID’s “Trauma-Informed Investigations Field Guide”

Covid 19

GSB’s Grit and Growth podcast tells the story of Stanford’s Dr. Shuchin Bajaj’s experience on the front lines of India’s COVID-19 crisis

Covid 19

Stanford research from Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Jason Andrews shows many California prisoners willing to be vaccinated

Covid 19

5 Questions: Roshni Mathew on advantages of COVID-19 vaccination

Test Post

Vetted organizations aiding the COVID-19 crisis in India

Vulnerable populations

2021 Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge Congratulates Winning Team, SILO

Covid 19

Dr. Michele Barry shares her lessons learned from the pandemic on KCBS

Research

When Undoing Is Not Enough — Repairing Harms Inflicted on Immigrant Children

Education

5 Questions with Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Christina Khan on building mental health services infrastructure in rural Guatemala

Covid 19

Faculty Fellow Maya Adam is drawing on humor to spread the COVID-prevention message

Covid 19

Washington Post op-ed co-written by Faculty Fellow Manu Prakash on the crisis in India

Covid 19

Resources for the COVID-19 crisis in India

Covid 19

Med students drive COVID project to vaccinate underserved people

Beyond Stanford

Watch Now: From the Front Lines in India – Stanford Department of Medicine Grand Rounds

Covid 19

Global Health Faculty Fellows collaborate on an international effort to support the COVID-19 response in India

Beyond Stanford

Watch Now: Human and Planetary Health – Protecting Health on a Changing Planet

Covid 19

Of Viruses and Vectors

Uncategorized

Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Mary Prunicki covered by NBC for work on wildfires and air quality

Diversity of Leadership

Watch now: A Conversation with Women From the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board

Featured Events

Joint Research Workshop on Environmental Justice & Human-Planetary Health

Beyond Stanford

In Africa, international partnerships are preventing backsteps in malaria response

Covid 19

“End the pandemic. Vaccines work.” — a new COVID-19 animated short by Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Maya Adam

Jobs

Job Opportunity: Executive Administrative Assistant to Dr. Michele Barry

Research

Research charts path to drastically lower administrative costs of health care, from Faculty Fellow Kevin Schulman

Education

Stanford and LSHTM announce the inaugural postdoctoral Fellows in Planetary Health to drive solutions for mental health and climate change

Case Study

How to Shrink Your Clinic’s Carbon Footprint Using Quality Improvement

Planetary Health

Global Health Faculty Fellow Rosamund Naylor and others assess aquaculture’s promise and peril

News

On World Health Day, we are reading this from our partners: The Sex, Gender and COVID-19 Health Policy Portal

Covid 19

Stanford’s Digital Medic presents Viral Facts, a video series with quick, credible answers to COVID-19 questions

Featured Events

Stanford Existential Risks Conference

Covid 19

Stanford Medicine partners with Lakota Nation in fighting COVID-19

Featured Events

Human and Planetary Health: Protecting Health on a Changing Planet

Featured Events

Cuba’s Approach to Healthcare for All

Covid 19

The state inoculates: vaccines as soft power

Covid 19

Dr. Anthony Fauci interviewed by Dr. Michele Barry at 2021 Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference

Featured Events

Gender & Power: A Conversation with Women from the Biden-Harris Transition COVID-19 Advisory Board

Beyond Stanford

16 Finalist Teams Selected to Participate in 2021 Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge

Featured Events

Virtual Fireside Chat with Dean Minor & Melissa Bondy on Health Equity and Precision & Population Health

Beyond Stanford

Africa’s COVID-19 Heroines: Women’s contributions to the pandemic response

Diversity of Leadership

Watch Now: Celebrating Women’s Leadership in Global Health on International Women’s Day

Uncategorized

Student job opportunity: Undergraduate Field (or Remote) Research Assistant Program

Research

Melding Artificial Intelligence and Algorithms with Health Care and Policy to Combat Human Trafficking

Research

Call for Proposals: 2021 Stanford Global Health Seed Grants

Research

Global Health Faculty Fellow Beth Beadle published on automated radiation treatment planning that shows strong potential for low-resource settings

Vulnerable populations

Strengthening gender measures and data in the COVID-19 era: an urgent need for change

Planetary Health

Global Health Faculty Fellow Mary Prunicki shows air pollution puts children at higher risk of disease in adulthood

Jobs

Student Job Opportunity: Global Health Social Media and Digital Outreach Assistant

Featured Events

Stanford Faculty Women’s Forum: Faculty Salary Equity and Transparency

Diversity of Leadership

This International Women’s Day, choose to challenge the global health status quo with WomenLift Health

Jobs

We’re hiring! WomenLift Health is expanding its team with a Communications Content Lead and a Digital Manager

Covid 19

5 Questions with Global Health Faculty Fellow Amie Batson on the barriers women face in global health

Featured Events

International Women’s Day: Celebrating Women’s Leadership in Global Health

Featured Events

WomenLift Health Power Up: a leadership workshop series for women health professionals all over the globe

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Addressing Critical Gaps in Global Health and Development: The 2021 Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference

Featured Events

Climate Change from the Streets – Environmental Justice and Sustainability Seminar from Stanford’s Woods Institute

Covid 19

“Confused by guidelines on quarantine after vaccination? You’re not alone”

Education

Applications open for the Rising Environmental Leaders Program from Stanford’s Woods Institute for the Environment

Covid 19

5 Questions with Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Piya Sorcar on scaling a global health innovation to 82 countries

Research

Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Pascal Geldsetzer publishes on hypertension in LMICs in the journal Circulation

Featured Events

Education, Jobs, and Philanthropy in Africa with Peter Materu, Chief Program Officer at Mastercard Foundation, from Stanford’s King Center

Featured Events

A Conversation on Women’s Empowerment from Stanford’s King Center

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5 Questions with Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Piya Sorcar on scaling a global health innovation to 82 countries

Beyond Stanford

Global Includes Local

Covid 19

“Can you mix vaccines? UK trial aims to find out” – new CNN article from Global Health Media Fellow Chris Rios

Featured Video

Watch now: 7th Annual Stanford Global Health Research Convening 2021

Beyond Stanford

COVID provides opportunity to rethink inequitable roles in global health partnerships

Beyond Stanford

Watch now: A Global Health Conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer

Beyond Stanford

Q&A with WomenLift Health 2020 Leadership Journey cohort member, Michelle Hsiang, Assistant Professor, University of Texas

Featured Events

Health in Areas Affected by Violent Conflict: Time for Academic Global Health Programs to Respond

Covid 19

Apply now for the Rosenkranz Prize

Beyond Stanford

Reckoning with the Lessons of 2020: A Call for Anti-Neocolonialism in Global Surgery

Covid 19

Faculty Fellow Thomas Weiser on disparities in post-surgery health outcomes in LMICs

Covid 19

TeachAids Launches COVID-19 Educational Platform for Kids

Beyond Stanford

Note from the field: Digital Medic in South Africa

Research

Tackling the Health of Women and Children in Global Conflict Settings

Covid 19

Faculty Fellows Gary Darmstadt & Jenna Davis find piped water promotes gender equality in rural Zambia

Covid 19

Director of Research Steve Luby on the pervasive health threats of unregulated battery recycling

Covid 19

Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke public health threat of air pollution in AP News

Covid 19

Faculty Fellow Marshall Burke finds half of all particle pollution in parts of American West come from wildfires

Covid 19

Faculty Fellow Dr. Kevin Schulman comments on promoting COVID-19 vaccination in New England Journal of Medicine

Covid 19

Faculty Fellow Dr. Yvonne Maldonado comments on COVID’s toll on California Latinos in The Guardian

Covid 19

Faculty Fellow Manu Prakash leads research into at-home COVID-19 saliva test

Covid 19

Now accepting applications for the Stanford Global Health Media Fellowship

Beyond Stanford

When Doctors Tell Their Stories

Covid 19

Looking back on Stanford student led efforts to address planetary health in the Bay Area

Covid 19

COVID-19 as an opportunity to restructure colonial relationships in Global Health

Covid 19

Faculty Fellows Gary Darmstadt and Victoria Ward reflect on lessons in inequity from a global health study

Beyond Stanford

Global Health Faculty Fellow Ami Bhatt launches Cervical Cancer-Free Nigeria campaign

Covid 19

Archive: Resources for the COVID-19 crisis in India

Beyond Stanford

Gates Foundation awards Grand Challenges to Lifebox and collaborator Faculty Fellow Dr. Thomas Weiser for work in Ethiopia

Covid 19

Faculty Fellows contribute to the launch of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change

Covid 19

Global Health Track Resident Dr. Jassi Pannu pens “Inclusive Biomedical Innovation during the COVID‐19 Pandemic” in Global Policy

Covid 19

“COVID-19 Solutions Are Climate Solutions: Lessons From Reusable Gowns” published in Frontiers in Public Health by Stanford’s Climate and Health student group

Covid 19

Job Opportunity: Human and Planetary Health Program Manager

Covid 19

Global Health Faculty Fellows Kari Nadeau & Mary Prunicki comment on the inequitable health costs of wildfire air pollution in the New York Times

Covid 19

U.S. Refusal to Join COVAX Puts World’s Poorest at Risk writes Global Health Media Fellow Christopher Rios

Covid 19

Faculty Fellow David A. Relman on unravelling the origins of COVID-19 to prevent the next pandemic in PNAS

News

Water sensitive cities show how holistic approaches can counter the health and wellbeing problems associated with urban dryness, writes CIGH Director of Research Dr. Steve Luby in BMJ

Covid 19

Watch Now: Innovating Global Health with Activism and Outrage, a Global Health Conversation with Steve Davis

Beyond Stanford

Note from the Field: Responding to COVID-19 through a One Health approach to gorilla conservation in Uganda

Covid 19

CIGH Research Director Stephen Luby discusses surprising results of a recent study on Nipah virus, a disease with no vaccine and a mortality rate of up to 70 percent

Covid 19

VIDEO: Global Health Media Fellow Chris Rios on the dialysis prop disproportionately affecting marginalized populations in CA

Covid 19

Affordable health care can reduce incentive for deforestation, Stanford led study finds

Covid 19

5 Questions with Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Shuchi Anand on the environmental causes of an elusive kidney disease

Beyond Stanford

Application open for the 2021 Bay Area Global Health Innovation Challenge

Covid 19

Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Maya Adam eases vaccine fears in new video for a global audience

Beyond Stanford

Accessible Healthcare Could Be Key to Solving Climate Crisis

Covid 19

Undocumented Workers Face Worsening Economic Crisis Without Relief, by Global Health Media Fellow Chris Rios

Covid 19

The 2021 Stanford Global Health Research Convening

Covid 19

New Lancet commentary urges us to examine how we’ve treated an aging population during the pandemic

Beyond Stanford

Children are still detained at the border. The pandemic is pushing the crisis out of the news.

Covid 19

Viral disease expert and Global Health Faculty Fellow Bonnie Maldonado is profiled in Stanford Medicine magazine

Covid 19

Global Health Student Council member Anpo Jensen on engineering for climate crises with indigenous wisdom in the Oxford Climate Review

Research

5 Questions with Global Health Faculty Fellow Dr. Pascal Geldsetzer on crafting impactful research

Covid 19

New Stanford seed grants create pathways to sustainability, with 3 focusing on planetary health

Beyond Stanford

Stanford Climate and Health Co-Director Jonathan Lu pens a call to climate action for NorCal healthcare workers

Beyond Stanford

How polio eradication in Africa can inform the global COVID-19 response by CIGH Director Michele Barry

Beyond Stanford

CIGH Director Michele Barry and 70 Stanford colleagues denounce Trump advisor Dr. Scott Atlas in open letter

Planetary Health

Faculty Fellow Erin Mordecai on climate change and mosquito-borne diseases

Beyond Stanford

Global Health Faculty Fellow Manu Prakash opens up Stanford “frugal science” class to the public — apply now!

Beyond Stanford

Global Health Faculty Fellow Kevin Schulman on a new Master’s program at Stanford focused on reducing healthcare costs through the nexus of business, technology, and medicine

Beyond Stanford

Watch Now: WomenLift Health on Gender & Power — Exploring Women’s Voices & Representation in Media

Covid 19

Watch Faculty Fellow Susanne Sokolow’s environmental solution to schistosomiasis in Senegal

Beyond Stanford

Rosenkranz Prize Winner Leads Effort to Protect Health-Care Workers from COVID-19 in Under-Resourced Countries

Beyond Stanford

5 Questions with Dr. Ana Crawford on Stanford’s Partnership with the Pine Ridge Reservation

News

Faculty Fellow Kari Nadeau on the health impacts of the California wildfires

Beyond Stanford

Faculty Fellow Manu Prakash Shares COVID-19 Innovations With the World

Beyond Stanford

Faculty Fellow Maya Adam Helps Kids Weather the Pandemic with New Animated Video

Beyond Stanford

Applications Open for WomenLift Health 2021 U.S. Leadership Journey

Covid 19

CIGH Seed Grantee Myna Mahila is helping Mumbai women overcome the stigma of menstruation during COVID-19

Beyond Stanford

Fogarty Fellow Ashley Styczynski launches global PPE guide healthcare workers in low-resource settings

Covid 19

Faculty Fellow Maya Adam’s new COVID-19 videos aim to educate, not scare

Beyond Stanford

CIGH Leadership is Proud to Support this Opinion Piece in The Hill

Covid 19

Faculty Fellow Pascal Geldsetzer on COVID-19 Age Distribution and Case-Fatality Rates

Covid 19

July 23 COVID-19 Newsletter

Education

Welcoming the 2020 Global Health Residents

Covid 19

Stanford’s Global Emergency Medicine Department and Digital Medic Create New Education Tools for COVID Patient Care

Beyond Stanford

Faculty Fellow Lisa Chamberlain Involved in Generating Tech Innovations to Improve Pediatric Health

Beyond Stanford

Global Health Leaders Sound The Alarm On US Withdrawal From WHO

Beyond Stanford

Faculty Fellow Dr. Jason Andrews Works With California Prisons to Test and Prevent COVID-19

Covid 19

Call to Action: Defunding of WHO

Covid 19

Dr. Michele Barry comments on the hazardous US withdrawal from the WHO in the Lancet

Beyond Stanford

Faculty Fellow Dr. Tom Weiser and Lifebox on the distribution of essential respiratory monitoring equipment in Ethiopia and other low-resource settings during COVID-19 pandemic

Covid 19

July 2 COVID-19 Newsletter

Beyond Stanford

Faculty Fellow Dr. Michelle Mellow outlines how we need to think globally but consider the US response to the epidemic

Beyond Stanford

Dr. Barry speaks on a panel about the risks of defunding the WHO during the COVID pandemic

Beyond Stanford

Dr. Barry advocates for a Right to Health Capacity Fund to support health systems

Beyond Stanford

Dr. Barry writes about challenges for the female academic during the COVID-19 pandemic

Beyond Stanford

Stanford researchers find that dust pollution in sub-Saharan Africa contributes to infant mortality

Covid 19

June 12 COVID-19 Newsletter

In the Headlines

Stanford researchers suggest new approach to reducing spread of mosquito-borne diseases

Beyond Stanford

Faculty Fellow John Openshaw writes on the Human Rights of COVID-19 Shelter in Place

Beyond Stanford

Special Letter in Solidarity from Dr. Michele Barry, June 3

Covid 19

May 27 COVID-19 Newsletter

Covid 19

Keeping under-resourced communities informed about COVID-19

In the Headlines

Center for Innovation in Global Health partners to launch a new initiative SERI: Stanford Existential Risks Initiative

In the Headlines

Global Health Seed Grant Program funds interventions to reduce sexual assault in Kenya

Covid 19

COVID-19: A matter of planetary, not only national health

Covid 19

Stanford Global Health Faculty Fellows launch new global resources for COVID-19

Covid 19

Women Leaders Shine During COVID-19 Pandemic: WomenLift Health Executive Director Amie Batson quoted

Covid 19

May 12 COVID-19 Newsletter

Covid 19

WomenLift Health hosts a Gender & Power in COVID-19 Speaker Series

Covid 19

Congratulations to the 2020 Seed Grant Winners: Special COVID-19 Call

Covid 19

International COVID-19 Conference | May 15

Covid 19

COVID-19 could exacerbate food insecurity around the world, Stanford expert warns

Covid 19

Stanford lab emphasizes scientific rigor in creative COVID-19 solutions

Covid 19

Stanford student helps design ventilator for COVID-19 patients in Peru

In the Headlines

Palliative care training project helps improve, expand services in India

In the Headlines

Dr. Michele Barry, Director of the Center for Innovation in Global Health, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Covid 19

April 24 COVID-19 Newsletter

In the Headlines

Rosenkranz Prize Winner: Infectious Diseases Physician Examines High Stillborn Incidence in Bangladesh, Helps With COVID-19 Preparedness

In the Headlines

Covid’s medical devastation will be felt by millions who never contract the disease

Covid 19

Call To Action, Funding To WHO

Media Fellowship

Chris Rios selected for the 2020 Global Health Media Fellowship

Diversity of Leadership

New endeavors and more global health allies

Covid 19

April 9 COVID-19 Newsletter

Covid 19

Podcast: COVID-19 from a global health perspective

Covid 19

New website explains how hospitals can decontaminate and reuse scarce N95 masks to fight COVID-19

Covid 19

COVID-19 Global Response Seed Grants

In the Headlines

“Nearly every school” in the US is considering early graduation for medical students

Diversity of Leadership

Podcast: Former Doctors Without Borders leader reflects on saving lives in war zone

Covid 19

Help prevent the spread: An animated video explains the novel coronavirus

Covid 19

Comparing international responses to COVID-19

Covid 19

‘It’s Totally Ad Hoc’: Why America’s Virus Response Looks Like a Patchwork

Covid 19

Dr. Lloyd Minor: Why we shouldn’t panic about coronavirus, and should start taking precision medicine seriously

In the Headlines

Discarding the empathy script: A former patient, now med student, encourages doctors to be authentic

Covid 19

Stanford Medicine COVID-19 test now in use

Covid 19

How to Prepare for the Possible Spread of Coronavirus

Diversity of Leadership

Podcast: Why Now for Global Women’s Leadership?

Diversity of Leadership

Allison Phillips selected for first cohort of WomenLift Health

Diversity of Leadership

Ami Bhatt recieves research fellowship from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Beyond Stanford

Preparing highly resourced doctors for saving lives in low-resource settings

Covid 19

“No handshakes, please”: The tech industry is terrified of the coronavirus

Diversity of Leadership

Introducing WomenLift Health

Beyond Stanford

Global Oncology works to ensure that all people have access to high-quality cancer care

Research

A personal reflection: Why Congo has the largest measles outbreak in the world

Research

Congratulations to the 2020 Global Health Seed Grant Award Winners

In the Headlines

Influenza in U.S. Detention Centers — The Desperate Need for Immunization

In the Headlines

U.S. Feed the Future program reduces stunting of children in Africa, study finds

News

Medical student surveys health of nomadic African group, thanks to goats

Diversity of Leadership

Elevating women leaders in global health

News

Global Warming and Extreme Heat Harming Pregnant Women

In the Headlines

Videos to educate lawyers on interviewing migrant kids at border

Research

Treating Blindness Improves the Economies of Low- and Middle-income Countries

In the Headlines

Malaria in the Amazon

News

NY Times: In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer | Ami Bhatt quoted

Education

Improving Patient Care Delivery Learning Collaboratives

News

Turmeric adulterated with lead-laced chemical compound, Stanford-led study reveals

Research

We are accepting applications for the 2020 Global Health Seed Grants

Planetary Health

Preserving human health and the natural systems that sustain it

Education

Building Improvement Capability in Kenya with PAICE Global

In the Headlines

Ami Bhatt’s team found previously undetected microbes in the human gut that make thousands of proteins.

In the Headlines

‘Smart’ diapers: Great idea or helicopter parenting from infancy?

News

Stanford Researcher finds a new way for cells to communicate

Seed Grants

Seed Grant Recipients by Year

Education

Improving Cancer Care in India with PAICE Global

Diversity of Leadership

Let’s all contribute to the demise of “manels”

Research

Burns in India: Emergency care improving, but patients often too injured to benefit

In the Headlines

Stanford researchers explain what to expect from wildfire season this year and in the future

In the Headlines

Feeding the world: A career in global food

Research

Artificial Intelligence and Global Health

Uncategorized

Stanford researchers publish review of microbiome research

Uncategorized

Why haven’t drug-resistant bacteria taken over the world?

News

WHO designates Stanford as a Collaborating Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship

News

Congratulations Michele!

Summer Solstice Celebration June 12 | 5 – 7p | Alway Courtyard

News

Stanford Dermatologists Team with Dhulikhel Hospital in Nepal

In the Headlines

Bay Area families cope with ‘epidemic’ in food allergies

News

Pathways to Global Health Careers

In the Headlines

Awakening Empathy for Refugees

News

Taking on poor air quality in South Asia brick by brick

News

An inclusive and international collaboration to understand the human microbiome

Diversity of Leadership

A journey to leadership in global health: One woman’s story

Vulnerable populations

In virtual exchange, students in California and Lebanon unite to improve refugee health

In the Headlines

Showing compassion, accepting cultures: Preventing suicide in the Latino community

Diversity of Leadership

Stanford Global Health Summer Internships

Planetary Health

Stanford researchers explore the effects of climate change on disease

Planetary Health

Planetary Health Alliance call for abstracts

News

Stanford Medicine magazine details efforts to improve health worldwide

News

My measles story: The importance of protecting the most vulnerable

News

Welcome to the new global health website

In the Headlines

A prescription for Madagascar’s broken health system: data and a focus on details

In the Headlines

How Zimbabwean Grandmothers are Stepping In to Fight Depression

Planetary Health

Leading the Battle Against a Potential Pandemic

Planetary Health

Humanity is all right, probably, although human extinction remains quite possible, researcher says

Vulnerable populations

Starting with one: Providing medical care in southern Sudan

In the Headlines

The search for healthcare heroes is over—and the Nepal Ambulance Service, with an assist from Stanford, is one of them

In the Headlines

The ‘Miracle’ Story of Tami Alade

Beyond Stanford

Comic book aimed at cutting cervical cancer rates hits the stands

Beyond Stanford

Reducing Protections for Noncitizen Children — Exacerbating Harm and Trauma

Planetary Health

Wildfires and Health

Planetary Health

Ecology & Disease

Planetary Health

Plastics and Health

Uncategorized

CHRONICLES FROM KAKAMEGA, KENYA

Past newsletters

Our quarterly themed newsletters address critical current issues in global and planetary health, showcasing the research and efforts of Stanford’s faculty, trainees, and global partners. We also send monthly roundups of events and opportunities and special messages on timely topics throughout the year.

Climate Change and Infectious Disease

This newsletter published in Feb. 2024 explores the impact of climate change on infectious disease – and what’s being done to mitigate the risk.

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International Women’s Day Message

This special message from Dr. Barry recognized International Women’s Day and the importance of elevating women to improve health equity for all.

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Reasons to be Hopeful in 2024

At the end of 2023, we highlighted stories of progress that give us hope for the coming year.

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Climate Change and Noncommunicable Diseases

This newsletter, published in October 2023, explored the connections between climate change and chronic diseases.

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