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U.Va’s first annual Global Health Case Competition, hosted by the Center for Global Health, brought 93 students together to address a hypothetical global health concern and propose solutions.
Depression, stigma and poverty often delay people living in rural areas who are diagnosed as HIV-positive from seeking care. A U.Va. Health System initiative will attempt to use a smartphone app to break through those barriers.
A simple ceramic water purification tablet invented at U.Va. that can disinfect water simply by resting in a vessel where water is poured will be introduced Friday during a celebration event.
A new NIH grant to U.Va.’s Center for Global Health seeks to eradicate the root causes of childhood diarrhea,, which takes an enormous lifelong toll.
Assistant professor of medicine Dr. Rebecca Dillingham is the new director of U.Va.’s Center for Global Health, which was founded in 2001 by infectious diseases expert Dr. Richard L. Guerrant.
A panel of U.Va. faculty leaders, including higher education economist David Breneman and media studies professor Siva Vaidhyanathan, will share their views on the summer’s leadership crisis and the challenges that lie ahead for academia.
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