Contact: Jane Kelly
434-243-0124
Jak4g@virginia.edu
UVa's Center for Global Health Announces New Course Award Winners
Charlottesville, Va., May 12, 2006 -- The Center for Global Health at the University of Virginia has honored its first-ever winners of awards to develop new and innovative course work relating to global health.
Eight outstanding faculty members from across the University were honored at an April 26th reception at UVa's Colonnade Hotel. They were selected from a competitive field to receive awards from UVa's Framework Program in Global Health, funded by the National Institutes of Health-Fogarty International Center.
These faculty members have each been awarded $9,000 grants to develop new courses for students from the Schools of Arts and Sciences, Nursing, Medicine, Commerce, and Architecture.
Under this new initiative, UVa students will have six, uniquely new courses from which to choose: Global Issues in Health and Illness; International, Tropical, and Cross-cultural Medicine; International Women's Health; A History of American Indian Health and Disease; Green Site Development and Financing a Sustainable Future.
One of the award winners, Dr. Rebecca Kightlinger, has been spearheading a new and innovative cervical cancer research program in Georgetown, Guyana. "I am excited at the prospect of teaching my students to look globally at health care and inspire them to search for sustainable solutions for the world's poor and unhealthy populations," said Kightlinger.
These new development awards are a key portion of the three-year, $405,000 grant that UVa's Center for Global Health received from NIH/Fogarty to develop multidisciplinary global health curricula and activities across the University's schools.
The Program Director of the Framework Program, Rebecca Dillingham, says, "The Center for Global Health looks forward to the courses' implementation. We are certain that both students and faculty will become more engaged in global health through their participation in the courses."
UVa's Center for Global Health serves the entire university by sending scholars, fellows and professionals to serve under-privileged populations overseas and in the United States. The Center's aim is to address health disparities through service, research, training and education.
For a complete list of award winners and course titles, please contact Jane Kelly, Communications Coordinator for The Center for Global Health at jak4g@virginia.edu or 434-243-0124. You can visit the Center's website at http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/cgh.
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