Community & Advocacy
Working at the intersection of research and action, we disseminate evidence and raise awareness about global health inequities and injustices through a number of programs in advocacy, outreach, and community-building.
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This year-long fellowship, the first of its kind in the U.S., teaches physicians-in-training to use various media channels to advocate and inform on global health issues.
We help translate global and planetary health research into real-world impact through strategic communication, stakeholder engagement, and policy influence. Our approach is centered on a commitment to working across disciplines and influencing change through multiple pathways, including through media, governance, and community partnerships.
We develop evidence-based strategies, partnerships, and messaging to influence policy and grassroots actions that protect people and the planet.
We find strategic ways to infuse public discourse with the latest ideas and findings in global health, translating research into impact.
This year-long fellowship teaches physicians-in-training to use various media channels to advocate and inform on global health issues.
This 2-year fellowship supports early-career researchers in conducting mentored research on cutting-edge human & planetary health challenges.
We support a group of physicians/ community members dedicated to improving the health of immigrant families at the US- Mexico border.
We raise awareness about pressing global health challenges through community engagement, education, and participation in high-level forums.
We are the central convener for all things global health at Stanford. We regularly assemble and connect faculty, staff, students, and trainees to develop new, interdisciplinary collaborations and learn about myriad topics in global health. Through global health events, unique global health conversations, journal clubs, and a large research convening, we foster a growing and constantly evolving global health community at Stanford and beyond.
Stanford Global Health Faculty Fellows discuss their research, careers, and what led them to global health during in-person lectures co-organized with the Organization for Global Health.
We host world-class global health leaders and experts in curated conversations where members of our community can learn about making a career, and a life, in global health.
We support many student groups including: Global Health Student Council, Organization for Global Health (med students), Stanford Climate & Health, and the Global Health Club.
This council builds collaboration across residency and fellowship programs, supporting the professional development of global health leaders.
We support and participate in the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, which brings together a network of organizations to strengthen global health impact worldwide.
We convene the Stanford global health community and beyond for annual events including the Global Health Research Convening and Global Health Fall Kickoff.
Access resources to support medical communication, including op-ed writing guidance.
The Viral Emergence has created this database as a tool to help connect journalists, policymakers, and researchers with infectious disease experts from the Global South.
Dr. Madhukar Pai has compiled this crowd-sourced list of blogs and media platforms that publish opinion pieces and commentaries, available via Springer Nature.
This interdisciplinary and intergenerational force of students, faculty, health practitioners, and community stakeholders is committed to mitigating climate change, abolishing environmental racism, and promoting health equity.
In times of crisis, CIGH uses the expertise and connections of its core leaders to identify and recommend effective and reputable ways to support survivors and recovery.
Partnering with the Stanford LaBeaud lab, CIGH’s Action Lab for Planetary Health distributed evidence on the links between plastics, disease, and other health impacts to call for reduced plastic use and improved local waste management and recycling. From strategically placed op-eds to culturally informed videos, we helped raise awareness of the plastics-health connection among US researchers and citizens while informing and engaging the global communities most impacted, such as in Kenya.
