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.
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.
Poster Presentations
The abstract submission window is currently closed.
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.
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
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.