The Center for Global Health at the University of Georgia seeks to identify best practices of health care throughout the world, to support their dissemination, adaption, and then their adoption throughout the world, in order to improve health care for all.
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Global health transcends the traditional world of public health by reaching beyond the study of disease to search for connections among economics, institutions, cultural beliefs and practices, technological innovations, and the environment.
The Center for Global Health at the University of Georgia is committed toward a modern understanding of globalization and its impact on health care. By combining the strengths and skills from the social and life sciences, we are able to consider the ways in which biocultural elements interact. Using a holistic approach equips us with the necessary skills to develop long-term, sustainable solutions to global health problems. One way in which we do this is through a policy oriented approach, informed by rigorous research and innovative thinking.
The Center leads and organizes interests and efforts to study, teach, and serve in areas of global health policy, management, and the study of health systems. Health disparities between high income and low income nations are increasing every day. Our task is to study and advance the development of best practices in global health care delivery, to support their dissemination, adaptation, and adoption, including their importation to the United States, to facilitate dialogue in health care public policy, and to promote prevention, population-based skills, health care management, and leadership among health care professionals and organizations. In doing so, the Center integrates economic, social, political, cultural, biological, systems, and epidemiological aspects of health to arrive at global solutions.
Our faculty work with colleagues in over a dozen countries on topics including child nutrition and maternal health, avian influenza and control measures, HIV and malaria prevention, skin cancer and climate change, environmental epidemiology, and biocultural aspects of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and other chronic conditions. The Center for Global Health is housed in the College of Public Health, and works closely with other schools and departments campus-wide including the College of Arts and Sciences, College of Family and Consumer Sciences, the Engineering program, the Grady School of Journalism, the School of Social Work, Terry College of Business, Veterinary Medicine, and the Medical College of Georgia among others. The Center is also forging collaborative relationships with a broad array of private, governmental, non-governmental, and international agencies that are actively involved in global health and development issues.
