Faculty Involved in Global Health

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Susan Anderson

GeoSentinel »

Emerging Infectious Disease Surveillance

Countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua & Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba (Netherlands), Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Cayman Islands (U.K.), Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador

Partnering Organization: CDC

Type of Project: Education, Clinical, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Medical Students, Residents, Fellows

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Niaz Banaei

Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Pathology
Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Infectious Diseases

Point-of-Care Breath Analysis for Detection of Active Tuberculosis

We propose to develop a point-of-care breath test that will detect the presence of active tuberculosis (TB) infection from the fingerprint of the mixture of metabolic volatiles (VOCs) contained in exhaled breath.

Countries: Kenya, United States of America

Partnering Organization: none

Type of Project: Clinical, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduates, Graduates, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Ellen Jo Baron

Emeritus Faculty-Med Ctr Line, Pathology

Diagnostic Microbiology Development Program »

This is an NGO that is devoted to enhancing microbiology laboratory capacity in developing world.

Countries: Botswana, Cambodia, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar/Burma, Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam

Partnering Organization: NAMRU and WHO, Cambodia; Potentially DTRA (DARPA) in SE Asia in general

Type of Project: Education, Clinical

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Medical Students

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Ben Barres

Professor, Neurobiology
Member, Bio-X
Professor, Developmental Biology
Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences

Neuron-Glial Interactions in the CNS

Countries: U.S.

Partnering Organization: none

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: no openings

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Eran Bendavid

Assistant Professor, Medicine - General Medical Disciplines

Foreign Aid and Health Improvements in Developing Countries

Exploring the impact of foreign aid on changes in HIV, malaria, and child health outcomes in Africa.

Partnering Organization: DHS

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Medical Students

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Lisa Blaydes

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Countries: Egypt

Partnering Organization: none

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: openings, non-specific

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Paul Blumenthal

Professor - Med Center Line, Obstetrics & Gynecology

Contraceptive Service Delivery and Cervical Cancer Prevention

Contraceptive Service Delivery, Training, Evaluation, Research. Abortion-related research and service delivery. Cervical Cancer Prevention research, training, and service delivery.

Countries: Cambodia, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Laos, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico, Myanmar/Burma, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Thailand, Uganda, United States of America, Vietnam, Zambia

Partnering Organization: PSI, Pathfinder, Gynuity, WHO, MSI, IPPF

Type of Project: Clinical, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: no openings

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John Boothroyd

Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Member, Child Health Research Institute
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Member, Bio-X

Predicting Disease Outcome in Human Toxoplasmosis Based on Immune Profiling

The major goals of this project are to first identify correlates between Toxoplasma strain and disease outcome in humans and then determine the molecular basis of the differences in pathogenicity.

Countries: Colombia

Partnering Organization: none

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: no openings

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Margaret Brandeau

Professor, Coleman F. Fung Professor in the School of Engineering

Resource Allocation for Control of HIV (REACH)

We are developing a tool for UNAIDS to assist country-level planners in making decisions about allocation of HIV prevention and treatment resources.

Countries:

Partnering Organization: UNAIDS

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: no openings

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Manish Butte

Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Immunology and Allergy
Member, Child Health Research Institute
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Member, Bio-X

Low cost screening for Type 1 Diabetes

We are developing a low-cost paper-based assay to identify children and adults with Type 1 Diabetes within a few minutes. Our goal is to improve efficiency of medical care in both the resource-rich and resource-poor worlds by properly sending Type 1 Diabetics for appropriate care.

Countries:

Partnering Organization: none

Type of Project: Clinical

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students

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Robert Carlson

Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute

Breast Health Global Initiative

The Breast Health Global Initiative (BHGI) strives to develop, implement and study evidence-based, economically feasible, and culturally appropriate Guidelines for International Breast Health and Cancer Control for low- and middle-income countries (LMCs) to improve breast health outcomes and access to breast cancer screening, detection and treatment for women.

Countries: Numerous

Partnering Organization: Breast Health Global Initiative

Type of Project: Education, Clinical, Research, Advocacy

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Fellows, Faculty

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Lisa Chamberlain

Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics

We have been in partnership with St. Gabriel's Hospital for many years and have taken on various projects based on the community and hospital needs, including neonatal CPR training, improving triage, etc.

Countries: Malawi

Partnering Organization: St. Gabriel's Hospital

Type of Project: Clinical

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Medical students, Residents

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Joshua Cohen

Martha Sutton Weeks Professor of Ethics in Society
Professor of Political Science, Philosophy, and Law, Ph.D.
Harvard University, Philosophy

Designing Liberation Technologies

We use human-centered design to develop projects (typically on mobile platforms) to promote human development in informal settlements in Nairobi.

Countries: Kenya

Partnering Organization: Umande Trust, MYSA, CDC, University of Nairobi, iHub

Type of Project: Education, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Residents

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Waldo Concepcion

Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - Multi-Organ Transplantation

Children health care in rural community in Honduras

Countries: Honduras

Partnering Organization: Hospital de Valle de Angeles

Type of Project: Clinical, Advocacy

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Medical Students

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Ana Crawford

Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesia

CASIEF/ASA »

Curriculum development projects for physician anesthesiologists and volunteer teaching in anesthesia training programs abroad.

Countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Partnering Organization: National University of Rwanda University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences

Type of Project: Education

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Residents, Fellows and Faculty

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Mark Cullen

Professor, Medicine - General Medical Disciplines

Countries: Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Philippines

Partnering Organization: ICDDR,b, CDC, U of Z, regional health minister (Phillipines)

Type of Project: Education, Clinical, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Fellows and Faculty

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J.P. Daughton

Associate Professor of Modern European History, Co-Director of the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship of Scholars Postdoctoral Program

Humanity So Far Away: Violence and Humanitarianism in Modern European Empire

The project explores the central role human suffering played as an experience, a moral concept, and a political force in the rise and fall of European imperialism from the late 1800s to the 1960s. It also considers how colonial practices increasingly intersected with efforts to establish norms of humane behavior – efforts most often led by non-state and international organizations.

Countries: Southeast Asia

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students

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Lyn Denend

Director, Program in Healthcare Innovation, GSB

Program in Healthcare Innovation

Coordinate healthcare related teaching, research, and events at the GSB.

Countries: India

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Education, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Rodolfo Dirzo

Professor, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)

The Effects of Wildlife Loss and Land Use Change on Rodent-Borne Disease Risk in East Africa

Deafunation and land use change in ecosystems, such as savannas, lead to a dramatic increase of rodents. Increased rodent abundance in turn increases abundance of vectors and pathogens responsible for human disease. Such correlations increase risks of human disease. Experimental manipulations and site comparisons are being employed to explore these connections.

Countries: Kenya, Tanzania

Partnering Organization: National Museums of Kenya, Mpala Research Centre, Sokoine University, and the Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute

Type of Project: Education, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Faculty

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Joan Dorsey

Assistant Director – SEED; GSB - Center for Social Innovation (Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability)

 

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Kristie Ebi

School of Medicine, Dept of Medicine; Consulting Professors to the Center for Innovation in Global Health

 

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Peter R. Egbert

Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Ophthalmology

Sustainable Eye Centers in Ghana W. Africa

We support eye centers by capital equipment, education in ophthalmic subspecialites, and patient care by volunteers at medical student and ophthalmologists levels. Operational research projects have been on glaucoma and eye disease prevalence.

Countries: Ghana

Partnering Organization: Tema Christian Eye Center. Bishop Akon Christian Eye Center

Type of Project: Education, Clinical, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Medical Students, Residents

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Karen Eggleston

Shorenstein APARC Center Fellow, FSI; Fellow, CHP/PCOR; and Director, Asia Health Policy Program

Asia Health Policy Program

The Asia Health Policy Program at the Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center sponsors multidisciplinary research on health and medical care in the Asia-Pacific, with a specific focus on how comparative analysis can provide insight for understanding and improving health policy in the region.

Countries: Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mongolia, Pakistan, People’s Republic of China, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan (China), Vietnam

Partnering Organization: Tema Christian Eye Center. Bishop Akon Christian Eye Center

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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John Farquhar

Professor Emeritus, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center
Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Medicine - Stanford Prevention Research Center

The Role of Palm Oil Consumption in Deaths Due to Ischemic Heart Disease

13 high-income countries were compared to 10 developing countries in relation to the positive relationship of ischemic heart disease mortality to palm oil consumption, a saturated fat.

Countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, Egypt, Greece, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Thailand, Venezuela

Partnering Organization: IOM

Type of Project: Research, Advocacy

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows

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Heidi M Feldman

Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
Member, Child Health Research Institute

International Collaborative Office Rounds

Forum for discussing challenging cases regarding children with disabilities and/or mental health disorders and their families, with emphasis on cultural influences.

Countries: Singapore

Partnering Organization: National University Health System

Type of Project: Education

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Faculty

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Scott Fendorf

Huffington Family Professor
Department Chair
Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment

Arsenic contamination of water (and food)

We are developing spatial and temporal predictions for arsenic contamination of groundwater and rice throughout Asia.

Countries: Cambodia, China, Vietnam, Bangladesh

Partnering Organization: Resource Development International, Cambodia China University of Geosciences, Wuhan

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Fellows, Faculty

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Lynne Gaffikin

School of Medicine, Dept of Internal Medicine

The Osa & Golfito Initiative (InOgo) »

The initiative is a collaborative effort involving various Costa Rican actors, facilitated by the Stanford Woods Institute, working to achieve greater well-being of human populations and the natural environment in this ecologically and culturally important region of the country. The work involves a diagnostic exercise to synthesize available information followed by the development of a long-term strategic plan to help maintain the well being of both local residents and their natural environment.

Countries: Costa Rica

Partnering Organization: CRUSA, MINAET, Fundación Neotrópica, Fundación MARVIVA, ACOSA, Universidad de Costa Rica, Universidad nacional, Universidad para la Cooperación Internacional, Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería, Ministerio de Salud, ASCONA, UCI-ELAP, Keo, Fundación Corcovado, APREFLOFAS, Programa de Regularización de Catastro y Registro, among many others

Type of Project: Clinical, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Medical Students, Faculty

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Sanjiv Gambhir

Professor, Radiology - Diagnostic Radiology
Member, Bio-X
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Professor (By courtesy), Materials Science and Engineering - Engineering Materials Science

We are testing new molecular imaging agents for cancer management. The agents are developed here at Stanford but then deployed to the international sites to increase accrual of patients.

Countries: India

Partnering Organization: Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Apollo Health Care (Hyderabad, India), Pretoria University Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa Aalborg University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark Serviço de Medicina Nuclear, Hospitais da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

Type of Project: Clinical, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Residents, Faculty

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Gabriel Garcia

Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Service Learning in Migrant Health Med 159 »

This course is designed to the foster examination and exploration of migrant health and to provide an opportunity for students to engage with community partners working on these issues at the local level. Weekly class sessions will expose students to concepts related to the process of program planning and evaluation; the health, economic and social issues of migrant populations in and around Pescadero, CA; and some of the current initiatives designed to meet the needs of migrant populations. This class will have a particular focus on the Mexican migrant populations in the Bay Area (Latino and indigenous), as these are the communities in which the structured service-learning will take place, through the design and implementation of a community health intervention. This course is open to graduate and undergraduate students. Students must have an intermediate/advanced level of Spanish language proficiency in order to work directly with migrant communities. Our main community partner is the Mountain View Day Workers Center. Now that the State Department has changed its Travel Warning to Mexico and Oaxaca travel is unrestricted, we are planning to reopen the summer field experience in Oaxaca.

Countries: Mexico

Partnering Organization: Puente a la Salud Comunitariua and Nino a Nino, both in Oaxaca, Puente de la Costa Sur in Pescadero, and the Mountain View Day Workers Center

Type of Project: Education, Advocacy

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduates

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Sharon Geaghan

Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Pathology

Collaboration with Wuhan Hospital for education regarding diagnostic technologies and uses for clinical decision-making

Countries: China

Partnering Organization: Tongii University School of Medicine, Wuhan Hospital

Type of Project: Education

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: No openings

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Jeremy Goldhaber-Fiebert

Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care Outcomes Research
Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Health Research & Policy

Rethinking Obesity and Undernutrition in Developing Countries

We focus on the particular challenges of improving population health in countries where rapid economic development has produced environments where obesity and undernutrition coexist. The research involves multiple projects and activities including primary data collection, econometric analyses of secondary data, and population-based simulation modeling.

Countries: India, China

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: No openings

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Harry Greenberg

Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Member, Bio-X
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Member, Child Health Research Institute
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Rotavirus Vaccine Trial in India

The aim of this project is to produce a commercially viable low cost safe and effective rotavirus vaccine in India.

Countries: India

Partnering Organization: DBT (India); Bharat (India); PATH (USA); NIH (USA)

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: No openings

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Ann Grimes

Director, Graduate Program in Journalism, Lorry I. Lokey Professor of the Practice

Global Health Media Project »

We train medical students in journalism skills - interviewing, reporting, multimedia, social networking, etc. - so they can better tell the global health story.

Countries: India, but varies from year to year

Partnering Organization: WHO, NBC News

Type of Project: Education, Internship

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Medical Students

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Kevin Grimes

Consulting Professor, Chemical and Systems Biology

SPARK Translational Research Program »

Assist faculty/postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to develop drugs and diagnostics for global health indications.

Countries: Australia, Brazil, Cote d’Ivoire, Israel, Jamaica, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan (China), Tanzania, Vietnam, Zimbabwe

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Education, Translation

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Keith Humphreys

Professor (Research), Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Stanford/VA Aging Clinical Research Center

Rebuilding Iraq's Mental Health and Addiction Care System

This is a long-running effort of many professionals, NGOs and government agencies to restore the quality of care for addiction and mental health disorders in Iraq, as well as improve secondary and primary prevention programs.

Countries: USA, UK, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey

Partnering Organization: WHO, World Bank, USAID, U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Iraq Ministry of Health, Heartland Alliance

Type of Project: Education, Clinical, Advocacy, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Faculty

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James Holland Jones

Associate Professor of Anthropology and a Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Biological and human dimensions of primate retroviral transmission
Land-use change and rural health/livelihood in Indonesia
Molecular Epidemiology and Natural History of SIVcpz

Countries: Tanzania, Uganda, Indonesia, USA, Rwanda

Partnering Organization: Makere University, U. Wisconsin, CDC, McGill U, U Cambridge, U Bristol, U Oregon, U Dar es Salaam, Jane Goodall Institute, U Pennsylvania, Duke U, others...

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Michael Hsieh

Assistant Professor, Urology
Member, Bio-X
Member, Child Health Research Institute
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute

Development of Better Diagnostics for Schistosomiasis

The gold standard for diagnosis of schistosomiasis, chronic infection with parasitic Schistosoma worms, is microscopic enumeration of eggs in urine or stool. We are seeking to replace this unreliable and infrastructure-heavy diagnostic approach with novel worm- and host-specific biomarkers in blood and urine.

Countries: USA, Kenya

Partnering Organization: CDC, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Robert Jackler

Professor, Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)
Professor (By courtesy), Neurosurgery
Professor (By courtesy), Surgery

Stanford Research into the Impact of Tobacco Advertising (SRITA)

The American tobacco industry, constrained by regulation at home, aggressively markets to teen "starter smokers" in the developing world using tactics which would be wholly unacceptable in the US or Western Europe.

Countries: Russia, Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia

Partnering Organization: CDC, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)

Type of Project: Research, Advocacy

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Saraswati Kache

Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Critical Care

Pediatric Global Health

This is a residency education track for pediatric residents interested in being involved and invested in global health long term over the duration of their careers. This program will also provide opportunities for the trainees to develop / participate in clinical or research projects at the site they choose to work at.

Countries: Bangladesh, Nepal

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Education, Clinical

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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David Katzenstein

Professor (Research), Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Member, Bio-X

Drug Resistance In Different Subtypes

Monitoring HIV treatment and identification of drug resistance in different subtypes.

Countries: China, Thailand, India, Kenya, South Africa

Partnering Organization: China - CDC, Thailand - Red Cross, India - ChennaiYRG, Kenya - Moy University, BRTI

Type of Project: Education, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Fellows

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Paul Kim

Assistant Dean for Information Technology and CTO

POMI (Programmable Open Mobile Internet)

Developing and evaluating mobile technology innovations in monitoring and evaluating learning (academic, health literacy, numeracy, etc.) in the developing regions.

Countries: Argentina, Brazil, Burundi, Chile, Costa Rica, El Salvador, India, Indonesia, Israel, Jamaica, Malaysia, Mexico, Rwanda, Tanzania, Thailand, United States of America, Uruguay

Partnering Organization: UNESCO, Tanzania Argentina Telecom, Argentina ORT & Antel, Uruguay CIDE, Mexico UTECA, El Salvador

Type of Project: Education

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students

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Christina Kong

Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Pathology

Project Mercy

Project Mercy has a hospital in Yetebon where there are opportunities to work with the local physicians and health workers in providing care and education to the surrounding rural community, as well perform health care assessments of school age children.

Countries: Eithiopia

Partnering Organization: Project Mercy

Type of Project: Education, Clinical

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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John Kugler

Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - General Medical Disciplines

Case-Based Tropical Medicine Course

I teach a course that is meant to prepare residents and career physicians to work in a resource limited environment.

Countries: Eritrea, Indonesia, South Korea, Uganda, United States of America, Zimbabwe

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Education

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Christina Kuihara

Associate Director, Global Programs
Associate Director, Stanford-India Biodesign
Manager, Special Projects

Stanford-India Biodesign

We train in-country innovators on the Biodesign Innovation Process - invention of medical devices.

Countries: India

Partnering Organization: AIIMS, Delhi IIT, Delhi DBT, Govt of India Indo US Sci & Tech Forum

Type of Project: Education

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Eric Lambin

Senior Fellow - Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
George and Setsuko Ishiyama Provostial Professor

Land Use Change and Vector-Borne Diseases

Impact of land use changes in risk of vector-borne diseases.

Countries: US, Kenya, Tanzania

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty

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Hau Lee

Thoma Professor of Operations, Information and Technology
Director of the Strategies and Leadership in Supply Chains Executive Program
Director of the Stanford Global Supply Chain Management Forum

Riders for Health’s Demonstration of Effectiveness and Efficiency of Contracting Out Vehicle Fleet Management for Health Delivery

Stanford University is partnering with Riders for Health to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of contracting out vehicle fleet management as an approach to strengthening the performance of health delivery organizations. We will examine the relationship between logistics efficiencies and health productivity and health equity.

Countries: Zambia

Partnering Organization: Riders for Health, Gates Foundation

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Medical Students

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Shoshana Levy

Professor (Research), Medicine - Oncology
Member, Bio-X
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute

Our CD81 knockout mice are resistant to the sporozoite stage. Anti-CD81 antibody prevent infection of human hepatocytes by P. falciparum sporozoites. I am interested in collaborating with others.

Countries:

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: No openings

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Geoffrey Lighthall

Associate Professor, Anesthesia

Mante Medical Mission

This is largely a service project where surgical services are provided to an underserved population in Mexico. Operations generally cover general surgical operations, ENT, plastics, pediatric opthamology and gynecologic surgery. Care to the higest standard is provided to patients that would not qualify for operations under the Mexican health care system.

Countries: Mexico

Partnering Organization: Local city and state governments

Type of Project: Clinical

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Residents

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S.V. Mahadevan

Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Surgery - Emergency Medicine

URC/CHS USAID Stanford Better Health

Emergency medicine clinical and educational development project.

Countries: Cambodia

Partnering Organization: URC-CHS USAID

Type of Project: Education, Clinical, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Residents, Faculty

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Yvonne Maldonado

Professor, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
Member, Child Health Research Institute
Professor, Health Research & Policy

Countries: Zimbabwe, Mexico

Partnering Organization: University of Zimbabwe Institutu Nacional de Salud Publica (Mexico)

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: No openings

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Hazel Markus

Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences

Midlife in Japan/ Midlife in the U.S. Studies

Comparing psycho-social predictors of physical and mental health across Japan and the U.S.

Countries: Japan

Partnering Organization: Tokyo University, Tokyo Women's Christian University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Michigan

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Fellows, Faculty

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Grant Miller

Associate Professor, School of Medicine
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University

Countries: Bangladesh, Colombia, India, Mexico, China

Type of Project: Research, Health Policy

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate students, Fellows, Faculty

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Kevin Montgomery

Sr. Research Engineer, School of Medicine

Advanced Research Technologies for Global Health

Advanced research and development of technologies relevant to global health, including telemedicine, environmental monitoring, and collaboration technologies.

Countries: Arctic, Afghanistan, Brazil, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Peru, Thailand, Vietnam

Partnering Organization: DOD/WHO/CDC (Haiti, Vietnam, Pakistan, Iraq, Afghanistan), PEPFAR (Ethiopia), IGERT, Mahidol Univ (Thailand) CEMADEN (Brazil, Peru)

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Mary Beth Mudgett

Associate Professor, Biology (School of Humanities and Sciences)

Molecular Mechanisms of Bacterial Pathogen Suppression of Plant Immunity

We are interested in understanding the biochemical mechanism by which bacterial pathogens of plants use the type III secretion system and its cognate virulence effectors to suppress plant innate immunity to promote disease.

Countries: US, India, Israel

Partnering Organization: Universities

Type of Project: Education, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Fellows

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Kari Nadeau

Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Pediatrics - Immunology and Allergy
Member, Child Health Research Institute

Central Valley Children's Environmental Health Study

We are studying the effect of pollution on asthma outcomes in children and adolescents living in the Central Valley of California.

Countries: US

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Clinical, Research, Advocacy

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Yasodha Natkunam

Professor - Med Center Line, Pathology
Member, Stanford Cancer Institute

International Medical Health Organization

Improving Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Facilities in Underserved Regions of Sri Lanka. Needs assessment of medical laboratories, designing training program for allied health care professionals to establish pathology and laboratory services, on-going support to establish histology, cytology, telemedicine and teaching programs.

Countries: Sri Lanka

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Education, Clinical

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Grant Parker

Associate Professor of Classics
Director of Graduate Studies

Memory and Heritage in South Africa

Exploring ways in which SA's changing society conceives of the past (conceived in terms of heritage and social memory)

Countries: South Africa

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty

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Andrew J. Patterson, MD, PhD

Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Anesthesia
Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Surgery

Gitwe Rwanda Hospital Development Project

The primary goal of the Gitwe Hospital project is to help this private facility transform from a remote entity providing basic health services into a well-equipped regional health center offering surgical and primary care.

Countries: Rwanda

Partnering Organization: Hellman Family Foundation, Partners in Health, Philips Respironics, Medical Missions for Children, Northwestern University

Type of Project: Education, Clinical, Advocacy

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Chris Payne

Professor - Med Center Line, Urology
Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Obstetrics & Gynecology

Ultrasound Imaging of Obstetric Fistula Patients

Countries: Ethiopia

Partnering Organization: Gondar University and Gondar University Fistula Center, Women and Health Alliance International

Type of Project: Clinical, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: No openings

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Rob Reich

Associate Professor of Political Science

Philanthropy, Technology, and Policy Project

Goal is to examine the attempts to improve health outcomes that are funded by philanthropy and/or delivered through non-governmental organizations.

Countries: any and all

Partnering Organization:

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Faculty

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Scott Rozelle

Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow, FSI
Affiliated Faculty, CDDRL
Co-director, REAP

Paying for Performance and Cost Effectiveness of Strategies to Combat Anemia in China

We will compare the effectiveness of various types of financial incentives to primary school principals on anemia prevalence among Chinese students.

Countries: China

Partnering Organization: Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northwest Socioeconomic Development Research Center, Madhouse Mobile Marketing, Yongye

Type of Project: Education, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students

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Upinder Singh

Associate Professor, Medicine - Infectious Diseases
Member, Bio-X
Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology

Intestinal Parasitic Infections and Impact on the Host

Assessing impact of intestinal parasitic infections on human health specifically on gut microbiota.

Countries: Bangladesh

Partnering Organization: ICDDR,B

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students

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Brent Solvason

Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Psychiatry & Behavioral Science - Psychopharmacology

Curriculum Building for the University of Zimbabwe Psychiatry Training Program

I am working with the Dr Mangezi who is the current Chair of the Psychiatry Department, and Dr Sekai who has just stepped down and is now Emeritus on developing the training curriculum for their department. NECTAR is a grant for curriculum development of the UZ School of MedicineTraining Programs, and IMHERZ is a linked grant that funds the curriculum development project for mental health education.

Countries: Zimbabwe

Partnering Organization: University of Zimbabwe Department of Psychiatry IMHERZ grant Co-PIs Dr. Sekai Nhiwatiwa and Dr Frances Cowan

Type of Project: Education

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Piya Sorcar

SoED

TeachAIDS

Founded at Stanford, TeachAIDS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social venture that uses a research-based design process to develop medically-accurate, pedagogically-grounded, and culturally-tailored animated software to optimize learning and retention, and distributes the software to educators, governments, and NGOs around the world for free.

Countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Benin, Botswana, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Congo, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Guatemala, Guyana, India, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Liberia, Malaysia, Malawi, Mexico, Nambia, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Republic of Georgia, Rwanda, Senegal, Somalia, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Trinidad, Uganda, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Zambia, Zimbabwe, US

Partnering Organization: A list of partnering organizations is available on our website

Type of Project: Education, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Helen Stacy

Senior Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI);
Coordinator, Program on Human Rights, FSI

Human Trafficking is Global Slavery

The Program on Human Rights is forming a collaborative research network of faculty, students and experts to produce collaborative research, policy recommendations, and advocacy on human trafficking.

Countries: World-wide

Partnering Organization: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Geneva

Type of Project: Research, Advocacy

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Fellows, Faculty

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Randall S. Stafford

Associate Professor of Medicine at the Stanford Prevention Research Center and Stanford Health Policy Associate

Qassim Prevention Research Missionary Service

Stanford Prevention Research Center is providing technical assistance in developing a prevention research agenda within Qassim University.

Countries: Saudi Arabia

Partnering Organization: Qassim University, Buraidah, Saudi Arabia

Type of Project: Education, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students

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Matthew Strehlow

Professor, Pediatrics - Neonatal and Developmental Medicine
Member, Bio-X
Member, Child Health Research Institute
Professor (By courtesy), Obstetrics & Gynecology

Countries: Iran

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Sindy Tang

Assistant Professor

Water-Borne Pathogen Detection

We aim to detect low levels of water-borne pathogens. We use nanoliter-droplets in microfluidic systems for concentration and digitization, and bacteriophage for amplification of the signal.

Countries: United States, Singapore

Type of Project: Education, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Undergraduate Students, Graduate Students, Medical Students, Residents

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Annie Talbot

Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine – Infectious Diseases

HIV Prevention in Students in Rwanda

Introducing Mental Health Intervention and Alcohol-Drugs Prevention Education to Reduce HIV Risk-Taking Behavior.

Countries: Rwanda

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Residents, Fellows, Faculty

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Wendy Thanassi

Clinical Assistant Professor, Surgery - Emergency Medicine

Using IGRAs for Latent TB Infection Surveillance in Healthcare Workers

White Paper to be produced for VA (Veterans Affairs) Central Office on selection of TB testing methodology for the 420,000 VA employees. Extensive cost analysis is involved, presentations and papers. This project has been underway and is near completion. There may be opportunities for publication or assistance later this fall.

Countries: United States

Partnering Organization: US Department of Veterans Affairs

Type of Project: Education, Clinical, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students

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Matt van de Rijn

Professor - Med Center Line, Pathology
Member, Bio-X

Geographic Patterns of Breast Cancer Subtypes in Brazil

We will try to determine geographic variations in subtypes of breast cancer in different regions of Brazil.

Countries: Brazil

Partnering Organization: Private Pathology Consultation Company

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: No openings

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Shan Wang

Professor - School of Engineering, Materials Science, EE, Radiology

Handheld NanoLab Diagnostic Platform

We are developing a handheld NanoLab platform for protein and nucleic acid assays which is sensitive and multiplex and ideal for resource limited settings. It is being adapted for detection of HIV protein, IgM, IgG, and drug resistance.

Countries: Zimbabwe, India, China

Partnering Organization: AIBST, IIT, Tsinghua University

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Graduate Students, Fellows

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Sherry Wren

Professor - Med Center Line, Bioengineering
Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Member, Bio-X
Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Graduate School of Business
Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Mechanical Engineering

Global Burden of Surgery

Using community interviews to determine the burden of surgical disease in sub Saharan Africa.

Countries: Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Zimbabwe

Partnering Organization: SOS

Type of Project: Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to: Medical Students, Residents

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Paul Yock

Professor - Med Center Line, Bioengineering
Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Cardiovascular Medicine
Member, Bio-X
Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Graduate School of Business
Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Mechanical Engineering

C-IDEA

Our program provides students, faculty and fellows at Stanford the opportunity to work with our Global partners to help solve unmet clinical needs in India, Singapore, sub-Saharan Africa, and elsewhere. The program provides small seed grants (up to $25,000) to teams of students, fellows, or faculty (or a combination) to allow them to explore global needs.

Assist faculty/postdoctoral fellows and graduate students to develop drugs and diagnostics for global health indications.

Countries: US, India, Singapore

Partnering Organization: US - Stanford
India - AIIMS and IIT Delhi
Singapore - A*STAR, NUS, NTU, EDB

Type of Project: Education, Research

Opportunities to work on this project are open to:Graduate Students, Medical Students, Fellows, Faculty