Global Health Education

Collaborating with traditional healers to deliver point-of-care HIV tests to individuals in rural Uganda quadrupled testing rates compared with standard referrals to HIV clinics.

As the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic moves to Latin America and Africa, Weill Cornell Medicine faculty based in Haiti, a country hard hit by natural disasters and poverty, have developed lessons on what low-resourced countries can do to address and treat the outbreak on the ground.

Weill Cornell Medicine and GHESKIO have received a two-year $158,000 grant from LINKS to support the institutions’ work addressing high blood pressure in Haiti’s most vulnerable communities.

The work of global oncologists – whose insights and innovations reduce the burden of cancer around the world – has demonstrated value that academic medical leadership should consider when assessing these physicians for professional advancement, according to a commentary by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators.

Despite comprising up to 80 percent of global health faculty members and workers, women hold only a fraction of global health leadership roles.

The complex life cycle of the parasite that causes malaria has made it a difficult foe to beat. But new insights on how the parasite is transmitted from humans to the mosquitoes that spread malaria may lead to new ways to control this deadly disease.

Educating religious leaders in sub-Saharan Africa about male circumcision increases the likelihood that men will undergo the procedure, Weill Cornell Medicine investigators found in a new trial. 

The grant will enable researchers to hone technology for a quick, in-the-field diagnosis of Kaposi's sarcoma -- a cancer frequently related to HIV infections.

A synchronized event brings together more than 400 people from 54 cities around the world to collect samples of DNA, RNA and microbes from surfaces in subways, buses, airports and other well-traveled public meeting spaces.

Grand Challenges Explorations Grant will enable scientists to develop maps of 54 international cities that show their genetic differences and also their epigenetic states.

One of the first groups of AIDS patients to receive free HIV drugs in a public health setting in the developing world are living as long as those in the United States.

In a major advance in the fight against drug-resistant tuberculosis, GHESKIO, has opened a state-of-the-art hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to treat patients suffering from the disease.