The Global Health Institute hosts a monthly seminar during the academic year. The Institute invites researchers and public health professionals from both inside and outside the University to lead state-of-the-art seminars relating to their work.

Global Health Lecture Series 2017-18

Schedule to be announced.

Global Health Lecture Series 2016-17

The Impact of Tuberculosis on Global Health
Dr. Chris Whalen, Director, Global Health Institute, with epidemiology and global health graduate students Leonardo Martinez-Pantoja and Maria Castellanos-Reynosa

Global Health at UGA: Croatia, Uganda, Puerto Rico, and Nepal
(1) Current Challenges in Global Health; (2) Cancer and Infectious Disease and Global Health; (3) Environment and Global Health
Various faculty

Scaling up HIV Care and Treatment to Achieve Epidemic Control: Priorities and Lesson Learned
Dr. Moses Bateganya, Team Lead, CDC, HIV Care and Treatment Branch

Evaluation of a community-based service learning program in a rural Ecuadorian population
Dr. Phaedra Corso, UGA Foundation Professor and Director of Economic Evaluation Research Group, Department of Health Policy and Management

Simulation modeling of Epidemiological Study Designs: Addressing Biases in HIV Infectivity Estimates and Planning an Ebola Vaccine Trial
Dr. Steven Bellan, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

The Schistosomiasis Consortium for Operational Research and Evaluation – What’s the SCORE?
Dr. Ye Shen, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, and Dr. Dan Colley, Professor and Director of the Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases

Lessons Learned from Chernobyl and Fukushima Field Research in High Radioactively Contaminated Areas Pertinent to Nuclear War Medical Response
The results of 12 UGA field expeditions to high radiation contaminated areas in Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine due to the Chernobyl disaster and 6 UGA expeditions to the Radiation Exclusion Zone at Fukushima, Japan.
Dr. Cham Dallas, Director, Institute for Disaster Management