Center for Global Health
Putting people first
The promise of global health requires us to address some of the most complex and difficult challenges facing humans. Sustainable solutions will need to address not just the medical, but also the complexly inter-related social, cultural, political, ecological, and economic challenges we face in a globalized era. Our research, training, and outreach efforts in global health are about understanding and supporting communities as the identify and manage the health challenges they define as priorities. Located in the school that has the nation’s foremost research-intensive anthropology program alongside the nation's largest global health undergraduate training program gives us a unique means to build global health solutions that put people first.
Each year our center pushes forward one ground-breaking and important theme that we believe can reinvent and reimagine how we do global health.
Center Theme 2025: Science Reasoning & Literacy in Health Decisions
Decision Scientist and CGH affiliate Caitlin Otten is leading our annual theme for this year, developing and testing new models to understand how people make sense of scientific evidence as they navigate their most personal health decisions. Things like: Should I drink tap water? Should I get a vaccine? Should I avoid eating genetically modified food? This matters for many important everyday decisions we all make, that together become major culturally-situated drivers of health within all societies.
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