February 1, 2024 - 8:47am
Dr. Jyoti Mathad, Associate Professor of Medicine and Dr. Radhika Sundararajan, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine were awarded a National Institutes of Health R01 grant to lead an innovative implementation science study aimed at improving postpartum diabetes screening... Read More
December 1, 2023 - 6:49pm
Dr. Marie-Marcelle Deschamps, co-founder and deputy director of GHESKIO, was named as one of four finalists for the U.S. Institute of Peace 2023 Women Building Peace Award. Deschamps’ selection is in recognition of her advocacy for women’s education and commitment toward peace and ending violent... Read More
December 1, 2023 - 7:54am
On November 11, 2023, the Weill Bugando School of Medicine in Mwanza, Tanzania celebrated their 20th anniversary of operation. Since its founding in 2003, the school has graduated over 2,000 MD students.At the time of the school’s inception, Tanzania had only 1 physician per 50,000 people, the lowest... Read More
November 28, 2023 - 3:13pm
Weill Cornell Medicine’s Center for Global Health (CGH) senior faculty recently participated in a workshop with Dr. Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH from the University of California – San Francisco on how to improve mentorship of new researchers in the field.The workshop consisted of educational and interactive... Read More
November 1, 2023 - 2:53pm
Dr. Sarah Matuja, a lecturer at the Weill Bugando School of Medicine in Mwanza, Tanzania, has secured a seed grant to develop stroke units and improve stroke care in Tanzania from the World Stroke Organization’s Future Leaders program. The program aims to build up capacity, professional development,... Read More
October 2, 2023 - 8:46am
The Center for Global Health is pleased to share that Dr. Sasha Fahme, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has received the NIH Fogarty International Center K01 International Scientist Research Development Award to continue her work with Syrian refugee women in Lebanon.Over the... Read More
September 1, 2023 - 11:13am
Article by Grace RuseluWCM research fellow, Dr. Godfrey Kisigo, research assistant, Dr. Grace Ruselu, and WCM Associate Profess of Medicine and Pediatrics, Dr. Robert Peck recently completed enrollment of an NIH-funded study in Mwanza, Tanzania on the impact of sleep disorders on cardiovascular disease.... Read More
August 23, 2023 - 3:19pm
Dr. Samuel Pierre, a research physician at GHESKIO and alumnus of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Masters Program in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research was recently awarded a National Institutes of Health R21 grant for his research on cardiometabolic disease among people living with HIV (PLWH)... Read More
August 1, 2023 - 11:22am
Recent work in Tanzania led by CGH faculty, Drs. Jennifer Downs and Khanh Pham titled “Effects of Schistosoma mansoni on Cardiometabolic Risk Factors” seeks to establish a clearer understanding of the relationship between parasitic schistosome infections and cardiometabolic diseases such as dyslipidemia... Read More
July 3, 2023 - 2:05pm
CGH Faculty, Dr. Puja Chebrolu, was recently awarded the Lila A. and Benedict Wallis Prize for Women’s Health Research.The award, founded in 2000 to recognize outstanding research in women’s health, commemorates the work of Dr. Lila A. Wallis. Dr. Lila A. Wallis was a physician-scientist and a pioneer... Read More
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