October 2019 - USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health

2020 Global Health Case Competition Virtual Mixer

Posted on October 30, 2019January 29, 2020

The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health hosted a virtual mixer for students interested in participating in the Global Health Case Competition. The mixer allowed students to interact with their peers and meet poten... read more →

World Association for Sexual Health 2019 Conference

Posted on October 25, 2019January 14, 2021

In October 2019, Sofia Gruskin, Director of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, traveled to Mexico City with Avery Everhart, a doctoral student affiliated with IIGH and the USC Spatial Sciences Institute, to ... read more →

A Life in Global Health: Expect the Unexpected

Posted on October 23, 2019November 20, 2019

On November 13, 2019, USC IIGH, in collaboration with the USC Dornsife Spatial Sciences Institute, hosted Dr. Joel Breman for a talk on his robust career in global health titled "A Life in Global Health: Expect the Unexpecte... read more →

Immigrant Health in ICE Detention: A Panel Discussion

Posted on October 21, 2019November 14, 2019

The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health co-sponsored an event concerning immigrant health in ICE detention on October 24, 2019. This very informative and important conversation was moderated by Niels Frenzen and fe... read more →

Human rights workshop brings together global scholars to address health, gender, sexuality and other issues of our time

Posted on October 18, 2019November 25, 2019

Thought leaders from around the world gathered for a unique two-day workshop that prompted discussion from multi-disciplinary perspectives around the global crises impacting human rights and ways in which these challenges ca... read more →

Drones Course Sparks Opportunity for Participant in South Africa

Posted on October 14, 2019

Participant in drones course will be presenting at the Emergency Medicine Society of South Africa conference in November. Dr. Andrea Weitz, a general surgery resident in Utah and currently pursuing her MPH online at ... read more →

A Mixed-Methods Study of Cultural Beliefs About Dementia and Genetic Testing Among Mexicans and Mexican-Americans At-Risk for Autosomal Dominant Alzheimer’s Disease

Posted on October 10, 2019April 17, 2020

Read » Details: Author: Withers, M., Sayegh, P, Rodriguez-Agudelo, Y, Montoya, L, Zuno-Reyes, A, Matute, E, Ringman, JPublished By: U.S National Library of Medicine Date: October, 2019Publication Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.... read more →

2020 Global Health Case Competition

Posted on October 7, 2019April 4, 2020

The annual USC Global Health Case Competition brings together teams of students from all disciplines to tackle a critical global health challenge. Fourteen days after receiving the case, students must propose realistic, inno... read more →

2019 Breman Global Health Fellows Conduct Research Abroad

Posted on October 2, 2019

Each year the Breman Global Health Fellowship is awarded to support students interested in global health and public service careers in a foreign country by funding clinical, field or laboratory research. In 2019, Agnes Premk... read more →