Today's global health challenges require the engagement and commitment of people and organizations specializing in numerous fields and disciplines. The perspectives and recommendations from the worlds of business, medicine, public health, nursing, theology, law, the liberal arts, and science are essential to improving health and health care around the world. It is for this reason that UAB is calling for students from multiple disciplines to address a global health challenge in a team setting.
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The Centre for Public Health, School of Health System Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences in collaboration with TN Topiwala Medical College and Nair Hospital, Mumbai, welcomes applications for ‘Study India Programme on Urban Health in India’. With the increasing urbanisation, public health is an increasing area of interest. The clinical health cannot be separated from the complex sociocultural and economic context. The health care systems have become very dynamic to meet this challenging situation. The programme intends to have the following objectives:

Although Jennie Harris says she had an interest in global health as early as high school, it wasn’t until a few years after finishing her undergraduate studies that she decided she wanted to work in the field. In 2001, she spent several months on a community development project in Guyana. Read more here...

In the African nation where the first extensively drug-resistant case of tuberculosis (XDR-TB) was found a few years ago, the doors soon will open on a new TB research facility. University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher Adrie Steyn, Ph.D., is the first scientist recruited to work at the facility.