What is UM-GHRT?

The University of Michigan Global Health Research and Training Initiative (UM-GHRT) is a university-wide framework to strengthen and expand opportunities for innovative multidisciplinary global health research and scholarship. Building on existing educational programs, international research collaborations, and the infrastructure of the University of Michigan’s five NIH/Fogarty International Center sponsored research training programs, the UM-GHRT supports undergraduates, graduate students and faculty to work on health needs of low-and middle-income countries and on problems of a global nature.

UM-GHRT is led by the Schools of Public Health and Medicine in collaboration with the schools of Dentistry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Policy, Natural Resources and the Environment, and Social Work as well as with the College of Literature, Sciences and Arts (LS&A), the Population Studies Center, the International Institute, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the International Policy Center, the Institute for the Humanities and the Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute.

UM-GHRT is funded by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and of the Vice President for Research, the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health.

Director and Staff

Director
Siobán D. Harlow, PhD
Professor of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
Director, IRWG Gender and Global Health Program

Co-Director
David Stern, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Internal Medicine and Medical Education
School of Medicine
Director, Global REACH

Project Coordinator
Nancy Vander Kuyl, MAT

ADDRESS

UM Global Health Research and Training Initiative
109 Observatory Rm. 5208
School of Public Health II
Ann Arbor, MI 48109 box 2029
734-615-4630
FAX 734-996-2084
ghrt@umich.edu