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Seeking and Solving: From Iraq to Uganda

October 24, 2018
Former OIA Global Health Scholar, Ross Boyce, MD, MSC draws on his military experience to provide care and help overcome access issues in rural Uganda. He has been awarded a Challenge Grant by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support his work.

Visiting Malawian Medical Student Makes the Most of Summer Experience

October 11, 2018
Mirriam Munthali, who is in her fourth year at the Malawi College of Medicine, spent the summer in Chapel Hill as a part of the UNC Partner Site Student Scholarship, sponsored by the UNC School of Medicine’s Office of International Activities.

Global Women’s Health: An Ob-Gyn’s Experience

October 8, 2018
Benjamin Chi, MD, MSc Professor, Global Women’s Health

OIA Funded Med Students Present Poster at AAFP Global Health Summit

September 19, 2018
UNC MD Candidates, Shannon Herndon and Lauren Ellis presented their  poster “A qualitative case study of the Austral Institute in Neuquen, Argentina: A community healthcare model in Latin America” at the AAFP Global Health Summit this past week in Jacksonville, FL.  

Research is a Team Sport: Build Your Team

September 5, 2018
By Dr. Kandace McGuire and Apoorve Nayyar

“Creating Value: Global Innovations that will Transform Medicine”

September 5, 2018
Alan Rosenbaum, MD Fellow, Global Women's Health

OIA Releases 2017-2018 Annual Highlights

August 30, 2018

OIA Global Health Scholar, Erica Bjornstad, Studies Epidemiology of Acute Kidney Injury in Malawi

August 30, 2018
OIA Global Health Scholar, Erica Bjornstad, MD, and third-year pediatric nephrology fellow is studying the epidemiology of acute kidney injury in Malawi.

Global Health Happenings: Summer 2018

August 30, 2018
https://mailchi.mp/7251ccb8b55c/quarterly-global-health-happenings-spring-2017-draft-1199469  

“A qualitative case study of a community mental health care model in Latin America: The Austral Institute in Nuequen, Argentina”

August 3, 2018
Shannon Herndon, MD Candidate, Class of 2020 Lauren Ellis, MD Candidate, Class of 2021

OIA Program Manager Visits UNC Project-Malawi

July 19, 2018
This June, OIA Program Manager, Shay Slifko, was able to make her first journey to the popular elective site and got a first-hand look at what these global health electives entail.

Emergency Medicine Resident Seeks to Increase Number of Providers in India

July 11, 2018
Senior Emergency Medicine Resident Nadeem Modan, MD, received first place in the 2018 Annual Emergency Medicine Resident Day of Scholarship for his role in an ongoing global health project aimed towards expanding acute care availability in India.