Global Health Research Collaborative
WSU established the Global Health Research Collaborative (GHRC) to expand the mission of providing quality global health education to local and foreign professionals early in their careers. Global Health Alliance members and GHRC directors Vijaya Arun Kumar, M.D., M.P.H., associate professor of Emergency Medicine; and Paul Kilgore, M.D. '91, M.P.H., associate professor and director of Research for the Department of Pharmacy Practice, held the first faculty meeting for interested mentors last December.
"Our program is a game-changer in global health research training at Wayne, and the impetus needed for junior faculty around the world and locally who are looking for quality training and mentorship"
Vijaya Arun Kumar, M.D., M.P.H.
The GHRC faculty aims to use the workshops to integrate cohorts of professionals into the collaborative, and to educate students from national and international partners. A three-week curriculum provides the foundational skills required to succeed in performing academic and policy-driven global health projects while simultaneously introducing students to the strong network of world leaders in global health, under whose advisement students will engage in impactful global health initiatives. The workshop introduces participants to a variety of global health research skills to be practiced and solidified for the first two weeks. The final week will introduce one of six specializations -- emergency medicine, maternal and child health, behavioral health, public health, infectious disease, or non-communicable diseases within global health -- with the goal of achieving expertise in one clinical research tenet.
The GHRC was created to ensure facilitation of global health research across a worldwide network that provides distinct advantages
- Supervision for research under individuals who understand their community sociologically
- Ease of communication and connection between professionals and development of unique global health research education platforms
- Provide an unprecedented level of practicum training
Areas of focus
- Population health
- Capacity developement
- Evaluation of evidence-based interventions for health challenges affecting low- and middle-income countries
The GHRC also provides an opportunity for WSU students to immerse themselves in the collaborative as part of their education. The GHRC team is seeking volunteer student logistics coordinators interested in building education curricula and facilitating research alongside global health leaders at WSU.