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.

David Bradley Rwanda
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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A delegation of surgeons from Rwanda
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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Visiting students from Ghana
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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An overhead view of U-M campus Global REACH by the Numbers
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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
Spring Global Health Forum

Join us on April 21 at 5 p.m. for our Spring Global Health Forum. We will honor the winners in our first-ever Global REACH Awards for Outstanding International Collaboration, recognizing the global health achievements of one deserving faculty, student, and resident or fellow at UMMS.

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Department News
Awards for Outstanding International Engagement
Global REACH is seeking nominations for awards honoring outstanding international engagement among members of the U-M Medical School.
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
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.
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.
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.