Los Angeles is emerging as a global health capital in the U.S. given its position as a major port on the Pacific Rim, gateway to Central and South America, and home to some of the largest and most diverse immigrant diasporas in the world.
Former USC President Steven B. Sample founded APRU in 1997 in order to capitalize on the emerging power and prominence of the Pacific Rim. It now comprises 42 premier Pacific Rim research universities located in 15 countries and fosters international collaboration among faculty, students and university leaders.
Global Health Program
The USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health collaborates with APRU to coordinate the Global Health Program Workshop at their yearly meetings. Mellissa Withers manages the APRU Global Health Program, which seeks to foster excellence in global health research, education and university impact across APRU.
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Updates:
- 2024 Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH) Conference (5/14/2024)
- 30 Years of the International Conference on Population and Development: Advancing Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in an Era of Challenging Political Contexts (5/13/2024)
- Human Papilloma Virus self-sampling performance in low- and middle-income countries (5/12/2024)
- Getting real on U=U: Human rights and gender as critical frameworks for action (5/12/2024)
- A global health response to gender justice requires continued engagement (5/12/2024)
- This Human Rights Day, the need to affirm the indivisibility of rights has never been greater (5/12/2024)
- What if we treated climate change like a disease? (5/12/2024)
- Pathway for creating a human rights-based legal and policy environment relating to drugs (5/12/2024)
- Frameworks, measures and interventions for HIV-related internalised stigma and stigma in healthcare and laws and policies: Systematic review protocol (5/12/2024)
- Global research priorities on COVID-19 for maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (5/12/2024)