About Global REACH
About Us
Working to engage with international collaborators to advance health, research and education.
Who We Are
Founded at the University of Michigan Medical School (UMMS) in 2001, Global REACH is a key partner to our UMMS faculty members, learners, and departments working to engage with international collaborators to advance health, research, and education. By engaging partners around the globe, not only do we extend Michigan Medicine to improve health in other (often low-resource) settings, we also generate scholarship to improve healthcare delivery here at home. Our work complements the medical school’s education-driven mission as well as Michigan Medicine’s broader mission to “advance health to serve Michigan and the world."
Global REACH facilitates international partnerships, programs and exchanges across the University of Michigan Medicine School campus, helping our faculty members, trainees and students engage in meaningful global health activities around the world. These activities include collaborative research, vibrant bilateral education exchange, and more. No matter the individual aims, Global REACH strives to facilitate partnerships that grounded in mutual benefit and respect, based on trust, and built to last.
Contact Us
1600 Huron Parkway
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Our Vision
Our Mission
To facilitate health research, education, and collaboration among Michigan Medicine learners and faculty with our global partners to reduce health disparities for the benefit of communities worldwide.
Mission Goals
- To enable students, trainees and faculty to develop components of their career that address sustainable approaches to improving global health.
- To create partnerships that allow our medical school community to collaborate synergistically to improve global health.
- To advance education and research in global health, particularly on the science of collaboration.
- To cultivate a community of educators and scholars committed to improvements in global health.
- To demonstrate the value of global health initiatives to the medical school, university, and the communities we serve.
Research
Research is central to the core mission of Michigan Medicine. Discoveries can come from anywhere and have an impact everywhere. Global REACH helps connect our U-M researchers with partner investigators across the world in order to collaborate on projects that transcend language, culture, and geography.
Education
We connect UMMS students with meaningful international educational experiences that offer important insights and leave lasting impressions regardless of what area of medicine they ultimately pursue - or where they choose to pursue it.
Collaboration
International collaboration should be a two-way street benefiting our own institution as well as our partners abroad. That philosophy informs the activities we support at Global REACH, whether fostering 1:1 collaborations between like-minded researchers in different countries or building multi-faceted institutional partnerships that span many activities and disciplines.
Our Team
Shane Quinonez, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Director, Global Research
Residency Program Associate Director
Service Chief and Interim Division Director Pediatrics - Genetics
Medical School
Alana Rodriguez, MPH, MA
Amy Huang, MD, MHSA
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Associate Directors
Kevin C Chung, MD, MS
Charles B de Nancrede Professor of Surgery
Professor of Surgery and Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Medical School
Joseph C Kolars, MD, MACP
Professor of Internal Medicine
Professor of Learning Health Sciences, Medical School
Professor of Health Management and Policy, School of Public Health
Cheryl A Moyer, PhD, MPH
Department of Learning Health Sciences
Professor of Learning Health Sciences
Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Medical School
Professor of Health Management and Policy
School of Public Health
Associate Director
Global Health Equity
Staff
Rima Hassouneh, MA
Craig McCool
Emma Wu
Rachel Yu
