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The Brater Family Scholarship funds for travel expenses, lodging and program costs to travel to low-income countries, particularly sub-Saharan Africa and the AMPATH Kenya program.

The Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Kenya is a partnership of Moi University, Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital, and the AMPATH Consortium of universities around the world led by Indiana University.

The Abigail Brinkman Scholarship provides funds to support a fourth-year student traveling to a healthcare center in Belize to do an international clinical medical elective.

Students visit healthcare facilities in Thailand, have discussion sessions with students from Chulalongkorn University and conduct presentations on topics related to health.

The Fairbanks School of Public Health is sponsoring a unique opportunity to participate in a three-week program exploring the organization, social and cultural aspects and future directions of the Chinese healthcare system.

The IU School of Dentistry global service and university student exchange teaches cultural understanding, access to care and healthcare models.

Researchers from Regenstrief Institute and the Fairbanks School of Public Health are building and expanding global relationships and collaborations in Ethiopia in the fields of public health and health informatics.

The IU Center for Global Health Equity supports the development of biobanking capacity in East Africa.

Indiana University School of Medicine faculty members are engaged in care, training and research related to HIV+ adolescents.

The Fairbanks School of Public Health is sponsoring a unique opportunity to participate in a three-week program exploring the organization, social and cultural aspects and future directions of the Chinese healthcare system.

Discover the early history of public health in a city overflowing with captivating examples and learn from world-renowned faculty who are not just knowledgeable, but also passionate about the subject.

The Fairbanks School of Public Health is sponsoring a unique opportunity to participate in a three-week program exploring the organization, social and cultural aspects and future directions of the Chinese healthcare system.

The Global Health Communication Center is dedicated to improving health around the world by creating greater access to health care and better health care practices by engaging the principles of communication for whole health.

The Global Health Equity Award is presented annually by the IU Center for Global Health Equity and recognizes people who have made significant contributions to the field of global health by demonstrating a commitment to equity, responding to the needs of a population or community and providing long-term engagement and partnership through their global health work.

IU School of Medicine’s Global Health Pathway engages residents from diverse specialties to better understand the factors that contribute to health throughout the world.

In partnership with the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (Indiana CTSI) the IU Center for Global Health Equity funds global health reciprocal innovation planning and demonstration grants to strengthen global health research among the Indiana CTSI institutions.

IU School of Medicine students interested in global health are encouraged to participate in the Global Health Student Interest Group (SIG), a student-led organization that hosts meetings, lectures and activities for participants.

The Global Healthcare Experience course is part of the physician MBA program offered by the Kelly School of Business.

An NICHD-funded partnership dedicated to improving maternal and child health outcomes.

The Center for Global Oncology and Health Equity at the IU Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center presents a monthly seminar series focused on various aspects of global oncology.

Indiana University School of Medicine faculty members are engaged in care, training and research related to adolescents living with HIV.

The core objective of this program is to better understand the natural history of oncogenic HPV infections in HIV-infected Kenyan women, and the potentially modifiable (and non-modifiable) factors that are associated with progression of oncogenic HPV infection to clinical disease, including cervical cancer.

Helping Babies Breathe teaches healthcare workers the initial steps of resuscitation to save babies who struggle to breathe at birth.

Indiana University School of Medicine serves as the East African IeDEA Regional Data and Coordinating Center (RDC) in the United States.

Indiana University faculty members are engaged in developing the next generation of electronic medical records.

Dr. Deb Hamby leads pediatric residents on an international elective to China to work in orphanages, where many of the children live with disabilities.

Undergraduate students who are preparing for careers in health care experience life and a health care system in another country with the School of Liberal Arts study abroad program in Japan.

The Long-term Assistance and SErvices for Research (LASER) Partners for University-Led Solutions Engine (PULSE) mission is to support the discovery and uptake of university-sourced, evidence-based solutions to development challenges.

Surgeons from IU School of Medicine spend one week in American Samoa providing laparoscopic surgery to patients and teaching the local doctors how to do it.

The NeoInnovate Collaborative Consortium is a multi-disciplinary international coalition of faculty, students and post-graduate trainees developing digital health and biomedical device solutions.

Professor James Kelly takes a dozen Media School students on an annual reporting trip as part of his class “Reporting HIV/AIDS in Africa.”

Indiana University School of Medicine faculty members are engaged in care, training and research related to reproductive health in low- and middle-income countries.

Ryan White Center for Pediatric Infectious Disease and Global Health works to improve the health of not only the children in Indiana, but worldwide.

The Scheel Lab works with colleagues on a variety of strategies to mitigate the impact of mosquito-borne illnesses such as Zika and dengue fever.

Two to four first-year IU medical students travel to Eldoret, Kenya to experience AMPATH during the summer.

The Fairbanks School of Public Health offers student the opportunity to visit Swedish health facilities, departments of health and hear speakers from a variety of healthcare and public health backgrounds.

Teledermatology allows for the diagnosis, triage, screening and linkage to care for patients in remote or rural areas.

The Conroy lab conducts focuses on the defining the prevalence, etiology, and pathophysiology of acute kidney injury in hospitalized children in low- and middle-income countries.

The Datta Lab focuses on long-term consequences in pediatric populations with severe malaria.

The John Lab's research focus is malaria and infections in children with sickle cell anemia.

The Schmidt Lab focuses on malaria with a central focus on the influence of gut microbiota.

The Tran Lab studies the human immune response to the Plasmodium infection as it relates to host tolerance and protection from the symptoms of malaria.

Timmy Global Health at IU gives students an opportunity to participate in local global health activities.

The team at Crann Centre Ltd. in Cork, Ireland, and faculty in the IU School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics have been engaged in a bidirectionally beneficial partnership sharing a commitment to caring for persons with complex disabilities from a clinical, research and community perspective.

WeCare Indiana aims to improve infant mortality rates in Indiana using techniques from Kenya.

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