Tag: Global Health
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Northwestern Hosts First Annual Global Health Case Competition
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine students participated in Northwestern University’s First Annual Global Health Case Competition. The winning team will compete at the Emory University International Global Heath Case Competition in March.
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Northwestern Launches Online MS in Global Health
The degree program offers tools needed to become a leader in global healthcare and address some of the most important, far-reaching and urgent health issues of the 21st century.
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NUPOC Scientists Bringing New Technology to Developing World
Yeongchi Wu, MD, has spent more than a decade perfecting a sustainable and cost-effective manner to create prosthetics and orthotics in the developing world.
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Collaboration Will Investigate Genetics of Dengue Virus
Variations in DNA sequence may have a significant impact on how humans respond to dengue virus. A group of scientists from Nicaragua, the University of California-Berkeley and Feinberg will seek to uncover genetic variants that make certain people more susceptible to life-threatening forms of the infection.
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NUAID Establishes New Site in India
A group of medical students spent a month volunteering in urban and rural clinics and learning about public health in India.
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Alumna, Adjunct Professor Taking Part in New Peace Corps Cooperative
Bronwyn Rae, MD, MPH ’13, lecturer in preventive medicine, will spend the next year as a professor of anesthesia in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, as part of a new public/private initiative of the Peace Corps and Seed Global Health.
