Craig McCool

As communications manager for Global REACH at the University of Michigan Medical School, McCool shares stories about U-M students and faculty involved in international global health work. He is also the copy editor of the national Journal of Healthcare Administration Education. Prior to joining U-M, Craig was a communications manager at MGM Resorts International in Las Vegas and has an extensive background in both newspapers and corporate communications.

Mohammad Ghaziuddin in Uzbekistan
Department News

Partnering to improve child psychiatry training, services in Uzbekistan

Psychiatry Mohammad Ghaziuddin travels to Uzbekistan on Fulbright Scholarship to help establish a formal child psychiatry training program
Mehriban Alizada and team at Kellogg Eye Center
Department News

Visiting physician from Azerbaijan learning to treat eye cancers

Dr. Mehriban Alizada has been at Michigan Medicine on an extended research fellowship supported by the Kellogg Eye Center and Global REACH
UMMS student Amy Kwarteng with other participants at the Winter Schools 2024 session.
Department News

Winter is coming: Brazil partner seeks applicants for Winter Schools program

2025 FMUSP Winter Schools program applications now open, funding available
David Bradley in Rwanda
Department News

'Delighted with our progress': Pediatric cardiology training program grows in Rwanda

What Professor of Pediatrics David Bradley started in 2022 has grown into a sustainable program, with the first trainee nearing graduation and others close behind in a growing pipeline.
Gifty Kwakye and Kwabena Agbedinu
Department News

New surgery fellowship program in Ghana marks first graduation

A fellowship program to train Ghanaian colorectal surgeons has produced its first graduate and is expanding with continued support from Michigan Medicine and others.
Denise Tate at a recent international conference with Brazilian collaborators
Medical School News

Reconnecting with Brazilian Researchers to Discuss Spinal Cord Injury Collaboration

A UMMS professor with long history of collaboration in Brazil used a recent international meeting to reconnect with partners there.
Dr. Lawrence shows off her team's Bluetooth-enabled blood pressure monitors with two of her Ghanaian collaborators, Betty Nartey (left) and Amanda Adu-Amankwah (right).
Medical School News

In Ghana, a high-tech solution to high blood pressure in pregnancy

A new collaboration in Ghana will deploy advanced mobile technology in an effort to help expectant mothers monitor their blood pressure at home between prenatal appointments.
David Flood and his colleagues in the Global Health Population Project on Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases have been able to compare care and access data from dozens of countries across every continent to identify trends, gaps and inequities.
Medical School News

Research network spotlights cardiometabolic disease care in LMICs

A team of international collaborators is shedding light on a growing global health challenge
UMMS student Gabriela Kim (second from left) with colleagues at the University of Sao Paulo, including her FMUSP mentor, Dr. Alexander Augusto de Lima Jorge.
Medical School News

Student experience in Brazil combines clinical insights, genetics research

A UMMS student is spending much of this year in Brazil for an experience that combines clinical observation with genetics research.
Anirudh Gururaj this spring in Taiwan on a clinical rotation in cardiovascular medicine. He was the first UMMS student to visit Taiwan's Chang Gung Memorial Hospital since 2018.
Medical School News

UMMS student travel abroad back to pre-COVID levels

After four years of travel restrictions due, 2024 saw international educational opportunities return to pre-pandemic levels, with more students traveling than at any time since 2016.
Global Executive Education Training Program participants tour the Michigan Medicine campus.
Medical School News

Partners visit UMMS to learn US approach to medical education

Two dozen physicians and leaders from China spent much of October at Michigan Medicine in an immersive training program.
UMMS student Reni Forer (second from left) with other Fogarty Fellows in the desert in the Ica Region of southern Peru.
Department News

Fogarty project explores connections between social behaviors, HIV prevention in Peru

A UMMS student is the recipient of NIH-funded Fogarty Fellowship to conduct HIV/AIDS research in Peru.
Dr. Petroze in Rwanda
Medical School News

UMMS welcomes a Vice Chair for Global Surgery

Robin Petroze looks to leverage her partnerships in Rwanda and beyond to expand global health opportunities in her department
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Department News

Computers and Cardiology: UMMS, PKUHSC researchers exploring better ways to diagnose heart failure

A research team from Peking University Health Science Center (PKUHSC) was recently in Ann Arbor to advance a collaboration putting computers to work identifying different kinds of heart failure.
Xiangya cohort 2024
Department News

'A very valuable opportunity': Students complete research training program

Eight medical students are headed home to China with newly honed research skills after spending two years in the labs of Michigan Medicine mentors.
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