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Growing collaborations, partnerships in Singapore
U-M President Santa Ono led a multi-disciplinary delegation to Singapore to launch new institutional agreements with the country's leading academic medical center and cancer institute.
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With UMMS help, Ghana welcomes its first Maternal Fetal Medicine fellows
Years in the making, a specialty training program to improve high-risk pregnancy care and outcomes in Ghana has produced its first graduates.
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Microbiology and Immunology faculty welcomes Ghanaian research collaborator for visit
Professor Alice Telesnitsky has fostered a growing collaboration between her UMMS department and the West African Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens.
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Fogarty Fellow looks to help breast cancer survivors have children in his native Ghana
Visiting UMMS for three months, Dr. Promise Sefogah's research explores fertility preservation among survivors of breast cancer.
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UMMS faculty, leaders meet with Rwanda Minister of Health
Michigan Medicine and broader University collaborations in Rwanda are poised to expand following a recent visit from the country’s top health official.
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Second Rwanda delegation visits UMMS ahead of renal transplant program launch
A UMMS collaboration to help Rwanda introduce the country’s first renal transplant program is moving ahead, with doctors on track to perform the first procedures later this spring.
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UMMS, U-M presenters at CUGH 2023
The annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) conference takes place April 14-16 in Washington, DC, and features several speakers from Michigan Medicine and broader University.
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Student video project documents health impacts of warming temps in Kenya
A UMMS student’s work in Kenya has helped to spotlight the toll that climate change is taking on mothers and how some communities are adapting to hotter temperatures.
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Laparoscopic surgery trainer wins top prize in Global Surgical Training Challenge
A UMMS-led project to expand laparoscopic surgery to LMIC settings has garnered the top prize in an international surgical training competition.
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Announcing the latest Partnership Development Grant recipients
The awards will fund collaborations in China, Ghana, Indonesia and Turkey.
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New partnership in Rwanda explores kidney transplant, nephrology programs
A new UMMS collaboration aims to help Rwandans launch a comprehensive kidney transplant program, the country’s first.
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Now available: 2021-22 Global REACH report
Global REACH is proud to release its report for the 2021-22 academic year.
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“The interest of Africans at heart”: Ghanaian partners reflect on Dr. Tim Johnson’s impact
News that Professor Timothy Johnson was honored by the University this year for his commitment to international education was celebrated not only in Ann Arbor, but in Ghana too, where Johnson has focused much of his career on establishing in-country Ob-Gyn training programs.
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Brazil elective provides ‘career-informing’ experience
A clinical elective in Brazil afforded Aurelio Muzaurieta the opportunity to experience a new health system and practice medicine in a new language.
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A fierce advocate for health equity: Brent Williams’ legacy extends into the community and around the world
Few at Michigan Medicine have engaged with, worked alongside, and accomplished more on behalf of the region’s most vulnerable than Dr. Williams, founding Director of the Global Health and Disparities Path of Excellence.