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Education Can Stop the Spread of Disease

The flu pandemic underscored a reality that infectious disease doctors have long known – country borders and geographic boundaries, even oceans, will not stop the spread of new diseases. But disease CAN be controlled, and even stopped, if the populations affected have the resources to access health services and understand how best to combat illness. In a world as interconnected as ours, "our community" is much more than our neighborhood, our city, our state, or even our country. Our community is the world, and the Global Health Initiative is working in select regions all over the world to create lasting health improvements that are felt around the world and in our own neighborhoods.. 

Why?

"Our collaboration with Utah's Global Health group is human centered and involves the people in our rural communities who need it most - as well as medical teaching with a reciprocal transfer of knowledge and respect. The GHI has catalyzed our efforts and kept the momentum going in programs involving both rural communities and local institutions.  This relationship was built at exactly the right time and is focused in the best possible way."  - Daniel Ansong. Pediatrician and Senior Clinical Investigator, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.

The GHI has a lasting impact on the world’s population: improving health, delivering service, alleviating poverty and bringing the best the world has to offer back to the students and faculty here at home. And the GHI is changing people’s lives not by handing out donations but by finding ways to create independence. Education in hospitals and rural clinics results in local programs that extend their teaching out into the communities. The GHI is helping form cooperatives to equitably share the fruits of group labor and to collaboratively finance small agribusiness. The GHI is studying disease vectors and models for affecting community change.  For more, please visit our Find a Program page.

We Need You

It’s that simple.  Complex problems can’t be solved by one project, one university, or even one group acting alone.  Working across disciplines, across oceans, and across cultures requires all of us to bring our many talents, financial resources, and time  together to make a lasting difference.  If you are looking for the best ways to use your resources to make the greatest impact, please consider the Global Health Initiative as your choice of where to be involved.

How?

If you would like to donate go to our secure online form.

If you would like to give your time to work with the GHI, either in Salt Lake or in other parts of the world – please tell us via our comment link.

If you have ideas about how we could reach more people – please tell us via our comment link.