Ryan Family Center for Global Primary Care
At the Ryan Family Center for Global Primary Care at the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health, our mission is to improve global primary healthcare quality, access and impact through partnerships and innovations in research, education and service. As defined by the World Health Organization, primary healthcare is people-focused, rather than disease-focused, care that includes health promotion, disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation and palliative care.
We work to establish and strengthen partnerships for research, training and capacity-building between Northwestern and institutions in other countries. Our vision is to work across institutions and communities to strengthen global primary care strategies, delivery and research to ensure effective care and achieve quality universal healthcare for all.
Ensuring quality primary care delivery is critical to the global efforts to reduce preventable suffering, but major gaps exist in knowing how to organize, support and deliver care to reach everyone everywhere. The Ryan Family Center for Global Primary Care is uniquely designed to better understand and address these knowledge gaps through research, education, training and collaboration with our partners globally and here in Chicago."
Lisa R. Hirschhorn, MD, MPH
Director, Ryan Family Center for Global Primary Care
Featured Projects
Our center's work takes us across the globe. Browse our ongoing projects by region of work: Africa, Asia and Central America.
Funding Opportunities for Faculty
This call for applications is open to supporting member faculty's research projects that are focused on improving primary care services and systems throughout the world.