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Global Health at UM SPH

"We will win far more hearts and minds, we will promote democracy far more effectively, by demonstrating that the richest nation in the world is also the most compassionate and generous, and that we care about our neighbors. And what better place to start than health?"
- UM SPH Dean Ken Warner, addressing graduating students.

National borders are rapidly becoming less restrictive to the movement of people, products, toxins, and lifestyles. Now, more than ever before, public health professionals need to take a global view to analyze problems and promote successful interventions.

Global Health at UM

UM SPH has robust opportunities to offer students interested in global health, as well as seamless integration with the UM Center for Global Health.

Read the SPH student blog about the first Center for Global Health Symposium and Student Global Health Day at the University of Michigan in November 2009.

View video of the slide talk given by UM SPH Environmental Health Sciences chair Howard Hu on "Climate Change Impacts on Health in Low-Income Countries" at UM Center for Global Health forum in Fall 2009.

Global Michigan is the new portal for UM that talks about the university's impact on the global community and details numerous opportunities for involvement.

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SPH and Medical School Video Highlighting Global Health Projects (faculty and students)

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Clicking the "Play" arrow starts the UM School of Public Health and Medical School Video: A Sampling of Global Health Experiences (6 minutes; students faculty, and staff talk about projects in India, Vietnam, Egypt, China, Peru, and Costa Rica).

Winter-Spring 2010:

Global Issues in Women's Health Lecture Series, sponsored by the UM SPH Forum on Gender, Sexual, and Reproductive Health. Most lectures will be available on video within a week.

SPH student blog: Funding your global health internship or field experience.

Findings Articles

“Climate Change and Human Health”: 4-day workshop on climate-change prediction and prevention in India in summer 2009, sponsored by the UM Center for Global Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Indian Council for Medical Research.

• In Step with the Giant: China
• Other Side of the Dream
• Environmental Change/Ecuador
• Arctic Pollution
• Demystifying Cancer
• Faces of Child Labor
• Faces of West Bengal
• Sex Tourism & HIV
• From the Dean: Globalizing Health
• A Doctor Who Would Cure the World
• Cancer, Internationally
• DDT, Danger vs. Malaria
• SPH alum Larry Brilliant Heads Google.org
• Dr. Monto's War on Flu
• Polar Sunrise: Tracking Mercury in the Arctic
• Search Findings articles database

"The explosive increase of world travel produces thousands of potentially infectious contacts daily."
- Julio Frenk, M.P.H. '81, Ph.D. '83
Former Mexico Minister of Health
Senior Fellow, Global Health Program at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Dr. Frenk was a featured speaker at the September 2007 Global Health symposium; archived webcast available from the UM SPH Office of Public Health Practice.