UCGHI Celebrates Future Global Health Changemakers at High School Summer Internship Final Showcase

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As students across the University of California prepare to head back to school, the University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) celebrates a successful summer of learning, research, and mentorship through the UCGHI Summer Researchers in Global Health (SRGH) Program for rising high school seniors. 

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"Educating [high school] students on global health topics through the UCGHI SRGH internship experience prepares students on their path to becoming great researchers and science communicators."

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Camilo Echeverria Jr.

(PhD Candidate at UC Davis, 2025 UCGHI SRGH Mentor)

Explore the 2024-2025 UCGHI Annual Report

Celebrating a Year of UC-wide Impact in Global Health


Check out the 2024-2025 Annual Report highlighting our collective accomplishments across the ten University of California campuses through UCGHI Centers and Programs.

Back to School Resources & Opportunities

Exciting News from the UC Global Health Institute!


With the help of 2024-2025 UCGHI Student Ambassadors, UCGHI is creating a comprehensive mapping resource audit to help students, faculty, and researchers easily discover the breadth of global health opportunities and work available across the University of California system.


The resource will be live on the UCGHI website by the new year—stay tuned!

UCGHI Global Health Education Fall 2025 Online Courses

UCGHI through UC Online offers a suite of online global health courses open to all University of California students. Explore our featured courses for Fall 2025!

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Climate Ready Classrooms: A Public Health Faculty Development Course on Climate Change

The Climate Ready Classrooms course is a faculty development program designed to help public health educators integrate climate change into their curricula.

Join the California HEAL Program Info Session

The California HEAL Program is hosting an info session on September 8th from 5:00 - 6:00pm (PDT) to share about the year-long fellowship where physicians build skills in advocacy, leadership, and social medicine.

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Funding Opportunities from NIH Fogarty International Center

The National Institutes of Health provides updates about funding opportunities, notices, and announcements that may be of interest to those working in global health research.

Across the UC

The UCGHI newsletter is shifting from a monthly to a quarterly publication schedule. As we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15), follow our Instagram stories where we’ll be sharing resources, stories, and highlights throughout Hispanic Heritage Month, along with content for future heritage months and key health awareness days.

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Effectiveness and experiences with differentiated service delivery of HIV care in Kisumu County, Kenya: A mixed methods study, 2014-2021 by Francesca Odhiambo et al. (UCGHI authors: Elizabeth Bukusi, Craig R. Cohen)


Use of Preabortion Ultrasonography Among Telehealth Medication Abortion Patients by Sylvie T. Wilson et al. (UCGHI author: Ushma Upadhyay)


Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Diet-Related Cancer Risk Awareness and Behaviors Among Cancer Survivors: An Analysis of the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) by Hemangi Bipin Mavadiya, Oladele A. Ogunseitan, & Yunxia Lu


The Impact of Air Quality on Patient Mortality: A National Study by Divya Periyakoil et al. (UCGHI author: Ndola Prata)


Biannual Mass Azithromycin Distributions for Preschool Children and Malaria Parasitemia: A Secondary Analysis of the MORDOR Cluster Randomized Trial by Ahmed M. Arzika et al. (UCGHI authors: Sun Yu Cotter, Jeremy D. Keenan)

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