Iowa Global Health Network

Spotlight on faculty-student research collaborations at Iowa
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
The Iowa Global Health Network at the University of Iowa is hosting a research spotlight event on October 4, 2024, showcasing faculty-student collaborations in global health. Students and their mentors will present their impactful research projects, including leadership in sexual and reproductive health and injury research in Eastern Europe.

International Programs’ affinity groups contribute to Iowa’s global mission
Monday, July 1, 2024
The faculty-led affinity groups create opportunities for faculty to advance research and teaching through a focus on collegiate issues and perspectives, provide opportunities for faculty and students across disciplines to interact and collaborate, and develop public engagement projects to benefit communities in Iowa and abroad.

Broader global health understanding brought to the University of Iowa community after visit with Dr. Nada Melhem
Friday, September 29, 2023
Dr. Nada M. Melhem, visiting faculty from the American University of Beirut, opened the eyes of Iowa City residents to the public health challenges impacting her home country of Lebanon during a lecture on cholera on Sept. 13.

International Programs Major Project to focus on multi-disciplinary global health collaborations
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
The Major Project centers on a week-long visit in September by Dr. Nada Melhem, professor of infectious diseases and microbiology in the Division of Health Professions, Medical Laboratory Sciences, at the American University of Beirut.

Saket Soni, author of The Great Escape, to read at Prairie Lights
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
The Iowa Global Health Network presents a Prairie Lights Reading by Saket Soni, author of The Great Escape, and co-founder and executive director of Resilience Force, a national nonprofit that advocates for the rising, and often migrant, workforce that rebuilds communities after climate disasters.

Iowa Global Health Network to host luncheon showcasing work of UI global health researchers, Mar. 2
Friday, February 17, 2023
Three global health researchers from the University of Iowa will present their work and its relevance to the global sphere.