Welcome

The UCSD Global Health Initiative (GHI) is a UCSD campus-wide effort that aims to coordinate existing global health research and training efforts across the campus, and to generate new collaborations and educational programs to meet health challenges of global importance. The goal of the GHI is to serve as a resource for coordinating UCSD global health projects, courses, research, and training programs for the local global health community.

 Mission Statement 

Think. Act. Impact.

In a world with constantly shrinking borders, global health is a growing concern. The University of California, San Diego is making an international impact with research and health care programs around the globe that fight diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

Our Mission

The mission of the UCSD Global Health Initiative is to facilitate research, education and public-private partnerships across diverse disciplines to address global health challenges in the 21st century, and to serve as a coordinating body for training programs, service and global health-related curricula.

 Program Spotlight 

 
Los Laureles Canyon Project

Los Laureles Canyon

UCSD internal medicine doctors are working side by side with their counterparts in Maputo Read More >

 Student Spotlight 

 

The Global Brigades

The Global Brigades is an organization that strives to be the largest student-led movement for global health and development globally Read More >