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In the summer of 2025, we announced the awarding of 16 new global health seed grants to chosen to empower multidisciplinary teams in developing pioneering solutions alongside local healthcare providers.
A growing partnership between a pioneering vitreoretinal surgeon in Ghana and Stanford ophthalmology faculty, residents, and medical students is providing low-cost screening and treatment to babies across the region to ensure that no babies go blind from retinopathy of prematurity.
We are proud to support essential global and public health reporting through our Global Health Media Fellowship. In this article published in Think Global Health, a fellow shines a light on the critical role refugees and immigrants play in the US healthcare system.
Our convening and communications efforts connect global health findings to those who can use them. Read on for curated Stanford global health research and media coverage, Q&As with experts, event announcements and recaps as well as media resources.
Jamie Hansen,
CIGH Communications Manager
jmhansen@stanford.edu
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.
This quarterly spotlight newsletter features insights and news from the Stanford African Scholars in Global Health Program
Director Michele Barry reflects on highlights and accomplishments from 2025.
Many of us in the global health world are grieving. Counterintuitive as it may seem, we would like to focus this newsletter on joy, hope, and resilience.
In this newsletter, Director Michele Barry welcomes everyone to a new academic year, shares updates, and welcomes new fellows and scholars.
August 29th, 2025 marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the city of New Orleans, a cataclysmic storm that led to the death, injury, and displacement of thousands of people and exposed deep-rooted inequalities within our communities. With the belief that “local is global,” we share this message of reflection.
The recent emergence of a new strain of mpox, the spread of H5N1 avian flu from livestock to humans, and the first outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Rwanda are striking examples of human activities catalyzing the emergence and evolution of infectious diseases. Learn more about current issues & response.
