Global Health Travel Awards | Mary Heersink Institute for Global Health

Hands-on experiences in international well being are important for uplifting the subsequent era of innovators and equipping them to deal with well being challenges worldwide.

However, monetary boundaries usually stop college students, trainees, and college from taking part in these alternatives. These limitations not solely hinder the event of the wanted international well being workforce but additionally limit the very important trade of data and abilities wanted to scale back well being disparities worldwide.

Strategic Goal

The main aim of the Global Health Travel Awards Program, an initiative of the UAB Mary Heersink Institute for Global Health (MHIGH), is to help transformative international well being experiences in analysis, schooling, and repair, for undergraduate and graduate college students, residents, fellows, and college. The Program supplies funding that may allow these essential experiences around the globe and also will present alternatives for worldwide companions to have interaction in experiences within the United States.

Transformational Value and Investing within the Future

The Global Health Travel Awards Program goals to scale back monetary boundaries to international well being engagement and to determine a sustainable pathway for ongoing, bidirectional collaboration. The Program would straight help the core mission of the MHIGH to enhance general well being and purposeful well-being and promote fairness in well being outcomes for populations worldwide.

Your contribution will assist scale back international well being disparities, strengthen worldwide partnerships, and help the coaching of the subsequent era of worldwide well being leaders.

Thank you for thoughtfully contemplating this chance to help the Global Health Travel Awards Program. We are assured that your help may have a significant influence on the subsequent era of worldwide well being leaders. 

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More about MHIGH

MHIGH’s overarching aim is to enhance general well being and well-being and promote fairness in well being outcomes amongst individuals around the globe. The institute goals to determine a coordinated, complete, and sustainable infrastructure that fosters instructional alternatives, facilitates high-quality biomedical analysis, and supplies multidirectional providers, capability constructing, and mutual help to deal with urgent international well being challenges.

Program Contacts

Kristin Garrett, MPH
Program Manager II, Mary Heersink Institute for Global Health
[email protected] 

Rena Patel, M.D., MPH, M.Phil.
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Associate Director, Global Health Research, Mary Heersink Institute for Global Health
[email protected]

Should the overall present fall wanting the University’s endowment minimal, the earnings could also be reinvested till such time because the minimal is met, or the principal could also be utilized for present help of the Purpose as decided by the University.