The University of Georgia welcomes nominations and applications for the Karen and Jim Holbrook Endowed Professorship in Global Health at the University of Georgia (UGA) College of Public Health. Applicants should submit a statement of interest, a current CV and four references (who will not be contacted without further correspondence with the applicant). Please apply …
The College of Public Health at the University of Georgia is celebrating the formal establishment of the Karen and Jim Holbrook Distinguished Professorship in Global Health. Dr. Karen Holbrook was Provost at UGA from 1998 to 2002. She subsequently served as president of the Ohio State University and has sustained a career-long involvement with international …
The Center for Global Health is sponsoring a Fall Symposium, titled “Global Public Health at UGA: Croatia, Uganda, Puerto Rico and Nepal,” on Wed. Oct. 26 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM in the Wright Hall Annex on the UGA Health Sciences Campus. The conference is organized around three sessions: 1) Current Challenges in Global …
The inaugural presentation of a new Global Health lecture series takes place on Thursday, September 29, 2016, from 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. in the Wright Hall Annex on the Health Sciences Campus. Global Health Institute director and professor of epidemiology and biostatistics, Christopher Whalen, and epidemiology graduate students Leonardo Martinez-Pantoja and Maria Castellanos-Reynosa will …
Dr. Christopher Whalen, Ernest Corn Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the College of Public Health, has been named director of the college’s Center for Global Health. As a physician-epidemiologist, Whalen is interested in reducing the suffering and mortality associated with infectious diseases, especially tuberculosis and HIV infection in Sub-Saharan Africa, specifically Uganda, where these …
You may not realize it, but that Health application on your iPhone is good for a lot more than just counting the number of steps you take each day. It contains valuable information, tracking and personalized advice on health topics from nutrition and body measurements to vitals and reproductive health. There’s even an option to …
Athens, Ga. – Every year, 50,000 people die in East Africa from tuberculosis. Worldwide, 1.5 million people die from the disease. And when HIV infection is added to the mix, TB becomes even more deadly. The University of Georgia is fighting against these numbers with a new $1.49 million grant from the Fogarty International Center …
Athens, Ga. – The University of Georgia College of Public Health has received a $500,000 gift to create the Karen and Jim Holbrook Distinguished Professorship and an endowed fellowship to support graduate students in the global health field. Karen Holbrook served as UGA provost and senior vice president for academic affairs from 1998 to 2002 …