Spring 2024

A member of the Malkia Klabu program in Tanzania shows off her loyalty card.

A $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will create a clinical research center dedicated to adolescent health and innovative HIV prevention services in Tanzania.

Border at Juarez, Mexico and El Paso, Texas. By David Peinado Romero/Shutterstock.

An ongoing collaboration between UCSF and Mexico will provide migrants with reproductive and mental health care, vaccinations, nutrition, and awareness of their health care rights.

Interim Dean of the School of Nursing Catherine Waters, UCSF Chief Nursing Executive Madelyn Pearson and CGN Director Rebecca Silvers. Photo by Susan Merrell.

IGHS and School of Nursing leadership celebrated the first year of the UCSF Center for Global Nursing (CGN) which aims to bring together nurses and advanced practice providers from across UCSF to collaborate, learn, explore and contribute to global health solutions.

Over 70 UCSF learners, faculty and staff attended the Consortium of Universities in Global Health 2024 conference from March 7 to 10, of which IGHS is a host institution. UCSF participants presented 17 posters and spoke on eight panels. Eric Goosby, MD, delivered the keynote address.

Chaisiri Angkurawaranon, Chiang Mai University; Craig Cohen, UCSF; Krysia Lindan, UCSF; Bannakij Lojanapiwat, Chiang Mai University; George Rutherford, UCSF; Brian Black, UCSF; Dumnoensun Pruksakorn, Chiang Mai University.

Leaders from Chiang Mai University met with IGHS in February to expand their collaboration in metagenomics, cancer and cardiovascular research. Chiang Mai University is also a new site for the GloCal Health Fellowship.

Grace Keburingi, Daudi Jjingo, Kelly Taylor and Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo.

IGHS co-hosted a Health Equity Community Building event with the UCSF School of Medicine Technology Services. Over 100 people engaged in conversations about data, design and health equity. We led a session exploring how AI is revolutionizing health care and the potential pitfalls of missing data.

“Health Equity: From Lens to Science” convened multiple disciplines to discuss ways to improve health equity in academic settings and with community partners. The one-day convening led to an initial framework of standards and competencies in health equity science.

The Health Informatics Hub was established in 2015 to meet a growing need for informatics solutions in global health programs. Learn how the Hub’s expertise in designing, developing, implementing and utilizing health information systems can support your goals.

Marissa Boeck, MD, MPH, and Tyler Law, MD, each received the IGHS Affiliate Program Early Career Global Health Scientist Awards for their patient care, mentorship and research accomplishments in global health.

Patience Afulani, PhD, MD, MPH; Allison El Ayadi, ScD, MPH; and Purba Chatterjee, MSc, were selected for WomenLift Health’s Leadership Journey, a yearlong program for women leaders in global health.

Join Program Director Chris Carpenter, MD, MPH, and Associate Director Ingrid Chen, PhD, MS ’13, on April 16 at noon for an overview of the program and admissions process. Applications are due June 14.

Scholars and mentors will learn state-of-the-art methods for sampling, population size estimation, bias analysis and engagement of hard-to-reach populations in behavioral, social sciences and clinical research. Apply by March 31.

April 10, 2024, 12 to 12:50 p.m. PDT

Mission Hall 1401/1402 & Zoom

Guest speaker: Mohamed Samai, PhD, MSc, MBBS, Deputy Vice-Chancellor, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, Sierra Leone

January to March 2024

The performance of 11 fingertip pulse oximeters during hypoxemia in healthy human participants with varied, quantified skin pigment. EBioMedicine. 2024 Mar 7. Leeb G, Auchus I, Law T, Bickler P, Feiner J, Hashi S, Monk E, Igaga E, Bernstein M, Chou YC, Hughes C, Schornack D, Lester J, Moore K, Okunlola O, Fernandez J, Shmuylovich L, Lipnick M.

Assessment of the Surgical Oncology Case Volume Within the Public Sector in Tanzania. JCO Global Oncology. 2024 Mar 1. Brand NR, Akoko L, Kotecha V, Mwakyembe T, Mwashambwa M, Hamid R, Hando D, Komba C, Mwanga A, Mbele P, Itule P, Jackson J, Misidai M, Gaskill C, Ozgediz D.

Temporary childbirth migration and maternal health care in India. PLoS One. 2024 Feb 8. Diamond-Smith N, Gopalakrishnan L, Patil S, Fernald L, Menon P, Walker D, El Ayadi AM.

Forest-goers as a heterogeneous population at high-risk for malaria: a case-control study in Aceh Province, Indonesia. Malaria Journal. 2024 Jan 30. Gallalee S, Zarlinda I, Silaen MG, Cotter C, Cueto C, Elyazar IRF, Jacobson JO, Gosling R, Hsiang MS, Bennett A, Coutrier FN, Smith JL.

Community engagement in the development of health-related data visualizations: a scoping review. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2024 Jan 18. Chau D, Parra J, Santos MG, Bastias MJ, Kim R, Handley MA.

• Research is a MUST, with Gama Petulo Bandawe, PhD
• Advancing Care in Outbreaks of Special Pathogens, withWilliam A. Fischer II, MD
• Nursing’s impact on global health through partnership, education, advocacy, and research, with Rebecca Silvers, DNP, CPNP-AC, CCRN, and Jerry Nutor, PhD, MS, RN

Congratulations to Alexander Marr and Ashley Mitchell of our PhD program for being recognized with honorable mentions for the 2024 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

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@DrEricGoosby and @keithmartinmd getting ready for keynote at @CUGHnews

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From the IGHS MS program course assistants: Congratulations to all the master's students for outstanding qualifying presentations and for successfully wrapping up the winter quarter!

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On March 5, 2024, IGHS and Global Action in Nursing (GAIN) hosted leadership from Sierra Leone, Liberia, Malawi and Memphis.

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