Collective Solutions for Complex Problems
Our member communities comprise faculty from across the University of Michigan (U-M) who share similar or complementary expertise and interests. These interdisciplinary communities for U-M faculty explore potential partnerships and projects that align with their respective interests, with an eye toward collaborations that carry the greatest potential for impact.
Climate Vulnerability and Health
The health of communities is dependent on—and inseparable from—the health of their environment. The Climate Vulnerability and Health member community explores how environmental, societal, and health factors are connected and how influencing one can positively impact the others.
- Faculty Leads: Sue Anne Bell (Nursing) and Joseph Eisenberg (Public Health)
- Staff lead: Kristina Rice, [email protected]
Women and Communities
This member community aims to create a space where researchers, public health practitioners, community partners, and others can learn from one another, seek support, and push forward a meaningful agenda focused on understanding, measuring, intervening upon, and assessing the impact of empowerment on health in low-resource global communities.
- Faculty Leads: Gary Harper (Public Health) and Cheryl Moyer (Medicine)
- Staff lead: Parina Kamdar, [email protected]
Vaccine Equity
Ensuring equitable, timely access to vaccines requires global cooperation, shared learning, and sustained community engagement. The Vaccine Equity member community creates an interdisciplinary space for U-M faculty and researchers to connect with experts and implementers working on vaccine programming around the world. This group supports networking, provides a forum to receive feedback on ongoing and proposed research, and fosters collaborations that push the field of vaccine equity forward. At its core, the group recognizes that the U.S. has much to learn from international partners and seeks to advance joint research that reflects this shared commitment to global learning and equity.
- Faculty Lead: Emily Treleaven (Institute for Social Research), Abram Wagner (Public Health)
- Staff Lead: Parina Kamdar, [email protected]
Learn more about the center's vaccine equity initiatives
Data Science in Global Health
Cutting-edge technologies like artificial intelligence might be developed in high-resource settings, but their impact doesn’t have to end there. Explore how the newest technologies might be applied in comparatively low-resource settings to improve health and healthcare.
- Faculty Leads: Amy Pienta (Institute for Social Research) and Akbar Waljee (Medicine)
- Staff lead: Kristina Rice, [email protected]
Learn more about the center's Data Collaborative.
Designing for Impact in Global Health
Systems designed in and for high-resource settings don’t always translate in other parts of the world. This group aims to reduce morbidity and mortality through the development of scalable models that strengthen the commercialization and implementation of global health technology.
- Faculty Lead: Paul Clyde (Business/William Davidson Institute) and Lee Schroeder (Medicine)
- Staff lead: Kristina Rice, [email protected]
Start a new group
All areas of academic study and research can be part of the global health equity movement. New interdisciplinary member communities centered on our thematic areas can be formed at any time. If you would like to propose a new community, contact us to develop your idea: [email protected].
