Kara Wools-Kaloustian
Director of Research
Our mission is to support research to eliminate health disparities and improve the health of people in resource-limited settings both in Indiana and around the world. Our Center is a commons supporting collaborative research teams joined across IU’s schools and campuses to solve the world’s most difficult health challenges and train the world’s future leaders in global health research.
40active global health research projects
$11.7million in global health awards in FY 2023 with over 80 percent from the NIH
100global health publications in 2023
AMPATH is the IU Center for Global Health Equity’s signature partnership in Kenya. The AMPATH Research Network includes researchers from nearly 20 institutions in North America, Europe and Africa working to improve the health of people in Kenya and other resource limited settings around the world.
Interdisciplinary teams from IU School of Medicine and colleagues around the world are exploring complex health problems in an effort to address them and improve health.
The IU Center for Global Health Equity and Regenstrief Institute Center for Health Services Research sponsor a quarterly Global Health Research Speaker Series on the second Tuesday in February, May, August and November from 12-1 p.m. The event is presented in a hybrid format.
Trainees, faculty and investigators can access lectures discussing the challenges, opportunities and methods of clinical research. Covering a range of core topics, these lectures are meant to give the listener a basic introduction and overview of some key concepts and principles in clinical research.
This series of lectures was supported by the National Institutes of Health through the Fogarty International Center under Award Number D43TW009105, the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences under Award Number UL1TR000006, and in part by the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute funded by grant award number UL1 TR001108 from the National Institutes of Health, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Clinical and Translational Sciences Award. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
Director of Research
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