Global Health Day

Global Health Day, hosted by the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health, is an exciting opportunity to draw together global health researchers, educators and students to celebrate and discover more about global health research, education and outreach efforts.

Students, faculty, community members and partners from all disciplines, both at Northwestern and unaffiliated, are always welcome to participate and apply to present posters on projects relevant to global health.

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Global Health Day presenter discussing their poster with a judge

Event Details

Global Health Day will be held on Wednesday, November 19 in the Lurie Medical Research Center, and will include a poster session, keynote address and more.

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Poster Presentations

Abstract submission window open August 13 - October 1.

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Global Health Day participants presenting their poster to a judge

Global Health Case Competition

The Havey Institute of Global Health hosts an Intramural Global Health Case Competition on Global Health Day that unites multidisciplinary teams of trainees to pitch solutions to a complex, real-world global health problem. Each team includes 4-6 trainees from a minimum of three schools at Northwestern. The competition grants student teams one week to formulate comprehensive case solutions to a hypothetical, yet plausible, global health challenge. Each team presents their case to a panel of expert judges.

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Keynote Address

Vaccine Successes in Global Health: Typhoid Fever and Malaria

Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH

Professor of Pediatrics
Center for Vaccine Development and Global Health
University of Maryland School of Medicine

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Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, is an internationally recognized pediatric infectious disease specialist with a primary research interest in malaria, typhoid fever, and other diseases that disproportionately affect people who live in resource-limited settings. He conducts studies at the Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) in Baltimore and at international sites in Burkina Faso, Mali, Malawi, and Uganda. Laurens evaluates vaccines and therapeutics that target infectious pathogens, studies the interaction of HIV and malaria and investigates the acquisition of immunity to vaccine-preventable illnesses.

2024 Poster Presentation Winners

Poster Presentation Award Recipients

Best Poster: Berivan Ece — “Training and Capacity Building in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research for HIV Care in Tanzania”
Best Student Poster: Claudia Oropeza — “A Capacity Building Workshop for Microbial Genomic Surveillance in Peru”

Honorable Mentions

Honorable Mention: Dulce Garcia — “Molecular Epidemiology of SARS-COV-2 in Bolivia and Peru”
Honorable Mention Student: Kate Klein, MA, MPH — “Understanding Barriers and Facilitators to a Mobile Clinic HPV Screening Intervention”

Posters presented at Global Health Day are available to view online.

View 2024 Posters and Abstracts

Global Health Day 2025 timeline:

Wednesday, August 13: Call for Abstracts Opens

Wednesday, September 24: Abstract Deadline

Monday, November 10: Final Deadline for Poster Submissions

Wednesday, November 19: Global Health Day