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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 →

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 →

Global Health Asia-Pacific Case Competition 2019

Posted on July 16, 2019July 16, 2019

The New York Times in partnership with the Association of Pacific Rim Universities are calling for university student submissions for the Asia-Pacific Case Competition. Details: The Asia-Pacific Case Competition chal... read more →

USC Students Participate in Global Health Courses in Switzerland and Costa Rica

Posted on July 9, 2019July 9, 2019

In collaboration with the MPH program, the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health provides students with educational opportunities abroad each year in Geneva, Switzerland and Costa Rica. The Geneva course brings stud... read more →

WHO Guideline on Self-Care Interventions for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights

Posted on June 24, 2019October 1, 2020

The World Health Organization has launched its first guideline on self-care interventions for sexual and reproductive health and rights in response to the growing development and use of new diagnostics, devices, drugs and di... read more →