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APRU Global Health Held an Insightful Webinar on Bioethics and COVID-19

Posted on June 2, 2020June 18, 2020

Bioethics has been and will continue to be a key consideration during the COVID-19 crisis, as the pandemic has brought to light chronic injustices such as homelessness, and increases in discrimination and intimate partner vi... read more →

A Global Conversation in a Difficult Time

Posted on March 24, 2020June 18, 2020

In 2018 when I accepted the mission of leading USC’s Institute for Global Health, now the Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (USC IIGH), my primary focus was twofold. First, how can we work with stakeholders, educa... read more →

Present IIGH and UNDP work reflects the long-term impacts of global collaboration

Posted on March 20, 2020June 18, 2020

The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health team has been working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in sub-Saharan Africa on a series of evaluations relating to projects addressing the legal environ... read more →

USC IIGH Engages in Partnership Building in Kenya

Posted on March 20, 2020June 18, 2020

The leadership of the USC Institute for Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH) team has developed relationships and partnerships around the world for more than two decades on a range of critical global health issues. That expe... read more →

2020 IIGH led courses in Costa Rica and Geneva

Posted on February 10, 2020March 30, 2020

This opportunity has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Please check back for next year's courses. Interested in traveling abroad and being immersed in global health work around the world? Apply to attend the I... read more →

Sofia Gruskin discusses SDG work with the City of Los Angeles at NASPAA Annual Conference

Posted on November 7, 2019March 24, 2020

On October 18, 2019, Sofia Gruskin, Director of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, participated in the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) Annual Conference in Los Angel... read more →

O, The Oprah Magazine talks with Dr. Shubha Kumar on the innovative use of drones in global public health

Posted on November 4, 2019March 24, 2020

Dr. Shubha Kumar, Education Director at the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health (IIGH) and Associate Professor at Keck School of Medicine, was quoted in an article titled "The Future of Healthcare" in O, The Oprah... 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 →

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 →