Empowering Transformative Health Initiatives
The Center for Global Health Equity at the University of Michigan is dedicated to fostering transformative change in global health by funding a diverse range of high-potential projects led by U-M researchers and their international collaborators.
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. Building on an...
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...
This project prepares 15 years of longitudinal village- and household-level survey data from rural Tanzania for public access. Collected by a U-M-led team across 52 villages and 3,000+ households in...
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...
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...
Residents of informal settlements in Latin America face compounding climate-related health threats that are intensifying as temperatures rise globally. These communities—structurally marginalized and...
Intentional injury mortality, including suicide and homicide/femicide, is an increasingly serious yet understudied public health problem in lower-middle-income countries (LMICs). In Botswana...
Intravenous (IV) administration is crucial in modern medical practice for delivering medications, fluids, and nutrients with precision, particularly in life-threatening emergencies. The gold standard...
Household water insecurity (WI)—difficulty accessing sufficient and safe water for domestic use—is a critical public health crisis in Peru, where nearly half the population (48.2%) experienced WI in...