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.

Medical student Zach Eisner (right) leads an lay-first responder exercise with U-M student actors for an online training curriculum aimed at LMIC settings.
Medical School News

Crash course: Student-led lay-first responder training scales up in Africa

A new hybrid training model developed with University support is helping to mitigate road traffic injuries in parts of Africa. Since launching LFR International several years ago, UMMS M3 Zach Eisner and former student Peter Delaney have trained thousands of first responders in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and other countries with limited emergency medical response services.
women sitting together looking at data
Health Lab

Long in decline, maternal mortality rate trends have stalled in recent years

After decades of falling global maternal mortality rates, has the momentum evaporated? A new WHO report suggests just that, and Michigan Medicine researchers are urging their peers not to take their collective eye off the ball.
Health Lab

Pop-Up Eye Clinic in a Shipping Container Targets Underserved Communities

U-M researchers have designed an eye clinic in a shipping container. See how the ophthalmology container clinic is helping underserved regions with eye care.
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