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This collaborative project aimed to explore the unique dimensions of women's empowerment and its relationship to health among indigenous, ethnic minority women in the highlands of Thailand.

In Uganda, communication gaps between local politicians and their constituents are a contributing factor for improved accountability in health service delivery by monitoring local government health.

This project aimed to document the patterns and effects of IWS on health, gender, and economic inequality in Mexico by collaborating with the Mexican National Institute of Public Health (INSP).

Gender-based violence (GBV) represents a global public health crisis with severe physical, psychological, emotional, and reproductive consequences, particularly affecting women and girls.

This pilot aims to address health inequities in Nepal’s aging population by testing and improving blood sample collection procedures as part of a new survey on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD).

Depression among women of childbearing age is a major global public health issue, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where rates of mood and anxiety disorders may be even higher.

Our pilot project in Ghana aims to address persistent low family planning uptake among postpartum women by applying in-depth qualitative inquiry and user-centered design principles.

Health technologies are critical in addressing global health challenges, yet many innovations fail to reach those most in need in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

This project addressed the pressing issue of health inequities and human rights violations faced by lesbian, bisexual, queer women, and other sexual and gender minorities (SGM) assigned female sex at birth.

This project merged the efforts of three pre-existing teams from Brazil, Burkina Faso, and Colombia to address climate change adaptation through passive cooling interventions in low-income housing.

This project aims to address the significant gap in cancer treatment regimens between high-income countries (HICs) and low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

This project seeks to explore and address the pervasive issue of gender-based violence (GBV) in digital spaces, a modern public health crisis that disproportionately impacts women, girls, and individuals with disabilities, causing serious health, social, and economic repercussions.

This pilot project aims to assess the knowledge gaps in reproductive and sexual health (RSH) and its relation to mental health among refugee women and healthcare providers in Lebanon.

This project investigates the causes, consequences, and drivers of climate-influenced diseases among pastoral populations in southern Kenya's drylands, focusing on Anthrax, Typhoid Fever, and Giardia.

This project seeks to address the high burden of meningitis and yellow fever in Ghana by developing climate-sensitive risk maps and geospatial early warning systems to enhance disease surveillance.

Neonatal jaundice, a common condition that is easily treatable with light-based therapy if identified early, poses significant risks in low-resource settings like Ghana.

This project aims to enhance family planning among refugees in the Nakivale refugee settlement in Uganda by involving men and promoting joint decision-making within couples.

This project aims to improve vaccine equity among children in urban Kenya and rural Uganda by developing a parent/caregiver-facing digital vaccine card and registry.

The Trusted Faces, Familiar Places project aimed to enhance vaccine equity in Aceh, Indonesia by addressing trust and accessibility issues around vaccination services.

The project "Assessing Flooding Impact of Households within the Rakai Cohort in Uganda" is a collaborative initiative between the University of Michigan and the Rakai Health Sciences Program.

Ukraine has been facing a severe humanitarian crisis since Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, leading to significant internal displacement.

This research project aims to assess the environmental risk factors for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) in Ethiopia’s Somali region.

This pilot project addresses a critical health equity issue in Agbogbloshie, a community in Accra, Ghana, long known for its informal electronic waste (e-waste) recycling activities.

This project aims to strengthen the global evidence base on climate change, vulnerability, and health by piloting and validating a climate shock survey in Chakaria–a coastal region.

Community-based organizations (CBOs) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) play a critical role in providing health services and programs to marginalized and vulnerable populations.

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a global public health crisis, with one in three women and girls experiencing intimate partner violence or non-partner physical or sexual violence during their lifetime.

Brazil's intensive pesticide use, weak regulatory enforcement, and continued use of highly toxic chemicals have created critical environmental and public health concerns.

Project Overview Climate change is increasingly affecting water availability worldwide.

Intravenous (IV) administration is crucial in modern medical practice for delivering medications, fluids, and nutrients with precision, particularly in life-threatening emergencies.

Intentional injury mortality, including suicide and homicide/femicide, is an increasingly serious yet understudied public health problem in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs).

Residents of informal settlements in Latin America face compounding climate-related health threats that are intensifying as temperatures rise globally.

Young people in East Africa face a critical and often overlooked health burden shaped by the intersection of rapid demographic growth, limited health infrastructure, and insufficient data systems to guide timely intervention.

Africa is aging. While the continent is home to the world's youngest population today, adults over 60 are expected to grow from 5.6% to over 15% of Africa's population by 2050—a demographic transformation that will reshape health systems, social structures, and economic policy across the region.

This project prepares 15 years of longitudinal village- and household-level survey data from rural Tanzania for public access.

This project develops AQUA (Automated Quantitative Ulcer Analysis), a free, open-source deep-learning algorithm to help clinicians in low-resource settings identify fungal organism types in microbial keratitis.

This project lays the groundwork for a federated surgical database in Rwanda by assessing the feasibility of standardizing surgical data extraction from electronic health records.

This project develops a digital assistance and telehealth platform to support people living with HIV in Aceh, Indonesia, a region marked by high stigma that discourages testing, treatment and retention in care.

This project assesses whether an Integrated Family Care model can be adapted to improve newborn care in Kenya. FICare brings parents and families into the care of small and sick newborns.

This project develops a culturally responsive mental health intervention for childbearing women with young children in Esmeraldas, Ecuador, adapting the Mom Power model to the local context.

This project pilots an approach to close a gap in care for cancer patients who are systematically missed by standard HIV testing. At Kenyatta National Hospital's Cancer Treatment Centre.

This project verifies and validates a low-cost device for urine-based screening for human papillomavirus, the cause of most cervical cancers, with an initial focus on Ghana.

This project pilots a coordinated platform to connect Ghana's health research institutions and tie their work more directly to improving care.

This project advances dementia and healthy aging research in urban Zambia, building on the Zambian Cohort for Healthy Aging and Dementia.

This project co-designs a locally informed surveillance platform to track and respond to the health impacts of extreme weather in Uganda.

This project focuses on adolescents and young adults (AYA) with cancer in Kenya, a group whose distinct care delivery needs have not been well described in sub-Saharan Africa.

This project addresses antimicrobial resistance at one of its most consequential sources in Nepal: antibiotic use in the poultry value chain.

This project strengthens the tools available to detect Alzheimer's disease and related dementias in Nepal, where cases are rising rapidly alongside an aging population.

This project maps the landscape for trustworthy artificial intelligence in health care in Lima, Peru, focusing on tools for chronic respiratory conditions such as tuberculosis.

This project adapts Strong Roots Perinatal Dialectical Behavior Therapy, an evidence-based mental health and early relational intervention, for perinatal women.

This project works with older women in the village of Kfarhouna, in southern Lebanon, to understand their health needs and priorities as they age.

This project examines how diet quality and environmental sustainability can be balanced across generations, using the established ELEMENT cohort in Mexico City.

This project tackles the pre-analytic sources of variation that undermine artificial intelligence in pathology when tools trained elsewhere are deployed in new settings.

This project develops an international, tumor board-style digital pathology platform to improve the timeliness and accuracy of cancer diagnosis across low- and middle-income countries.

This project builds the evidence base for screening pregnant and postpartum patients for PMAD in Ghana, where such screening is not yet standard.

This project tests an integrated program that pairs trauma healing with financial literacy for young mothers living in Nairobi's informal settlement.

This project addressed the critical issue of non-vaccination, under-vaccination, and late vaccination in Bangladesh, particularly among marginalized communities.