Global REACH
International Partnerships Based on Trust, Built to Last

Supporting and facilitating global health activities and programs for faculty, trainees and students seeking international learning experiences.

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For Students

Explore resources supporting international educational experiences for UMMS students.

For Faculty

Explore funding opportunities and other resources to help faculty engage with collaborators overseas.

About Us

Global REACH facilitates international partnerships, programs and exchanges across the UMMS campus. Meet the team and learn about what we do.

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Education and Training

Global REACH supports experiences and training to help our UMMS students, colleagues and partners engage in global health across all stages of their career.

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International Partners

Global REACH creates and maintains collaboration agreements with 30-plus partner institutions around the world. Such agreements govern student and scholar exchange, research collaborations and other activities.

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Faculty Network

Our faculty network boasts more than 200 colleagues from nearly every UMMS department and discipline who are engaged around the world in meaningful collaborations.

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International Visitors

Global REACH helps to welcome many dozens of students, scholars, and healthcare leaders visiting Michigan Medicine from abroad each year.

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Faculty in our Global REACH network
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Papers by Global REACH Faculty Associates authored with foreign co-authors in 2018-19
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UMMS students had international experiences across 17 countries in 2018-19
CMB Biomedical Research Fellowships

The CMB Biomedical Research Fellowship Program places early-career researchers or advanced students (MD, PhD, or equivalent) from US institutions into select labs at highly-ranked academic institutions in China under the guidance of a local and a U-M mentor.

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Student Support
Introducing new grants, increased funding amounts

Global REACH is pleased to announced increased baseline funding amount for most UMMS student grants. We have also recently introduced a new funding mechanism specifically geared toward M1 and M2 students seeking an international educational experience.

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Featured News & Stories See all news CMB Graduates and program lead Cheryl Moyer
Department News
Cross-Border Collaboration Fosters Future Women Leaders in Medicine
Three physician-researchers from China have completed a yearlong leadership development program at Michigan Medicine.
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Department News
Michigan Medicine's Tim Johnson Honored by Johns Hopkins for Global Health Leadership
Professor Emeritus of Ob-Gyn, Dr. Johnson will receive this year's Samuel P. Asper Award for Achievement in Advancing International Medical Education.
Grace Kim Erin Kim Awards for Outstanding International Collaboration
Department News
Announcing the winners of our Global REACH Awards for Outstanding International Engagement
We are pleased to announce the winners of the first-ever Global REACH Awards for Outstanding International Engagement. Congratulations to Professor of Surgery Grace Kim, MD; Obstetrics and Gynecology Global Women’s Health Fellow Dhanalakshmi Thiyagarajan, MD; and fourth-year medical student Erin Kim.
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Points of Blue
Kelly Beharry, MD/MPP student: Transforming compassion into lasting change
University of Michigan medical student Kelly Beharry found her path at Michigan, where she is learning to become a physician and champion for child health equity and human rights.
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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