Open funding:
Open funding:
Guiding model

Our theory of change

CGHE operates on a straightforward premise: that health inequity is not inevitable. It is the product of systems, structures and resource distributions that can be changed, if we work together across disciplines and boundaries.
Four members speaking on a panel at Global Health Equity research symposium at University of Michigan

How we create impact

The Center for Global Health Equity creates impact by turning collaboration into action that improves health in low-resourced settings, whether abroad or here in the U.S. It brings together faculty, clinicians, trainees, and community partners from many disciplines, and it supports them with funding, convening, and a growing membership network. Research is one result of that work, alongside education and mentoring that build skills and leadership on every side of a partnership.
Defining Global Health Equity

What we mean when we say global health equity

Global health equity is a phrase at the core of our work, and one that's still being defined. Important conversations are underway across the field about what it means, each highlighting a different facet of the work it asks of us. For us, it includes designing research questions around the priorities of the communities most affected by poor health outcomes. It means measuring success by who benefits and who leads, not only who publishes. And it means recognizing that the forces shaping health shift over time, and that geography and circumstance shape who feels that shift first and hardest.

‍



We believe progress toward equitable health outcomes is possible, that Michigan research has a role to play in driving it, and that the work asks us to think locally and globally at once.

Four data collaborative researchers on a field walk in rural Africa

Keep Exploring

Field surveyor with laptop outside