The Global Health Initiative's projects and partnerships contribute to sustainable development for improved health. This is done in a framework that connects local and international education, research and community service.
Objectives of project development
- Focus faculty contribution
- Make important contribution
- Create external country partnerships
- Profile University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry capacity
- Strengthen capacity of all involved
Projects
- Maternal and Neonatal Health Project Ethiopia (2012-2018)
- A five year project undertaken with funding from the Government of Canada (DFATD)
- In partnership with Mount Royal University, Calgary; St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College, Addis Ababa; Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health
- Aga Khan Collaboration
- Nairobi
- Kenya and Dar Es Salaam
- Tanzania (curriculum development for new medical school; cardiac sciences; NCD community research; family medicine; Field Station site)
- Uganda
- Makerere Health Sciences
- Kampala and Mbarara University of Science and Technology (both Field Station sites)
- CIDA Tier II Grant (September 2000)
- Awarded to Drs. W. Kipp, S. Houston, K. Hatcher, L. Laing with University of Makerere, for health system strengthening in Uganda, including:
- development of training programs for District Medical Officers in health program planning and implementation
- capacity strengthening of Makerere Faculty of Medicine for teaching and collaborative research at the community level
- development of a medical student elective in a community setting to strengthen the quality of integrated care and
- strengthen the focus of international health for the University of Alberta Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry
- Mozambique Primary Health Care Curriculum and Research Project (with University of Saskatchewan)
- ICChange Collaboration
- Kibera Electronic Medical Record Project
- Nairobi
- Moi University
- Eldoret and
- AMPATH collaboration under consideration
- Nepal
- Patan Academy of Health Sciences
- Kathmandu—extensive collaboration with multiple faculty and areas of medicine and public health (Field Station site)
- China: Programs in many areas of China
- Fudan University (Field Station site)
- Shanghai Municipal Health Bureau
- Li Kai Shing Foundation, Shantou Medical School (Field Station site)
- Capital Medical University, Beijing (Field Station site)
- Anhui Medical College
- Kunming, Chengdu and Chongqing Medical Colleges
- Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
- Zambia Field School collaboration with School of Public Health (Field Station site)
- Latin America
- Biomedical Research Programs
- FIELD STATION PROGRAM for students, residents and faculty, currently in 8 countries and more being added.
Global health at UAlberta
- Global Health Fair (November 8, 2012)
- Global Health Biomedical Research Symposium (August 26, 2012 and May 2013)
- Global Health Rounds (every Monday at 12 - 1pm in Classroom F)
- Global Health Weekly (published every Wednesday; six pages of current global health and environmental news)
- Global Health Film Series with UAlberta International (November 7, 15, 22, 29, 2012)
- Global Health Advisory Committee with various committed faculty representatives
- Global Health Student Representatives from all four years as part of a collaboration with the Medical Students’ Association
- Membership in the UAlberta Global Citizenship Curriculum Development Program
- Membership in the UAlberta Strategic Advisory Committee for International Education (SACIE)
Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry departments involved in global health
- Medicine (various involvements ID, Cardiology, Preventive Medicine)
- Family Medicine (developing strong program)
- Pediatrics (Uganda, Ghana, Nepal)
- Obstetrics and Gynecology (beginning engagement in Ethiopia)
- Surgery (new Office for Global Health Surgery; program in Kenya)
- Emergency Medicine (strong collaboration in Taiwan, Nepal, Uganda)
- Anesthesiology (with resident bursary)
- Rehabilitation Medicine
- Pathology (with Dr. Solez in Nepal)
- Oncology (in Nairobi at Aga Khan University)
- Endocrinology (in Nepal)
- Rheumatology (in Nepal)