Related Campus Institutes and Programs

UM Center for Global Health
Population Studies Center
Conducts interdisciplinary demographic research on health, disability, and mortality; family formation, fertility, and children; aging; human capital, labor, and wealth; population dynamics; and regional studies.
Global REACH
Facilitates health research, education, and collaboration among the University of Michigan Medical School faculty, students, and global partners through international exchanges, research efforts, and collaborations.
Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute (GESI)
Encourages collaborative research among science, policy, engineering, and business faculty to investigate and offer solutions to complex environmental sustainability issues.
Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG)
Stimulates, coordinates, and supports research across disciplines on women and gender that explores the differences and commonalities among and between women and men in the United States and internationally. The Gender and Global Health Program encourages integration of a gender focus into all university global health activities.
International Policy Center
Brings together academics to produce innovative research on key issues related to government, non- governmental organizations (NGOs) and business policies in the increasingly global world.
Center for Human Growth and Development (CHGD)
Coordinates, integrates, and conducts research on normal and abnormal human growth and development, including its biological, intellectual, behavioral, and social aspects.
School of Public Health - An emerging Center for Global Health at the University of Michigan has been initiated by UM SPH, with support from the Provost's Office. Three parallel planning efforts are currently underway: strategic planning, fundraising efforts, and an international search for a director.
Institute for the Humanities
Provides fellowships for Michigan faculty, graduate students, and visiting scholars who work on interdisciplinary projects, and hosts public and scholarly events to make the humanities grow through interdisciplinary dialogue.
International Institute
Coordinates research, education, and training in area, comparative, and international studies and promotes collaboration in international affairs across the University’s schools and colleges.
International Perspectives on Human Rights
Assembles the resources of the University to promote reflection, debate, scholarship, and teaching in human rights.
Life Sciences Institute
Focuses on biological problems of human health through collaboration between the health sciences, basic sciences, engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities.
William Davidson Institute
Dedicated to developing and disseminating expertise on issues affecting firms in transition and emerging market economies.
Bioethics on Campus
Conducts empirical and theoretical inquiry into bioethics with an emphasis on ethics in healthcare decisions making, ethics of health policy and management, ethics education, and ethics of advances in medical science.