History

The Global Health Resource Center (GHRC), founded in 2004 with funds from the NIH's Fogarty International Center, is now supported by the UMB Office of the President and the UMB Foundation. The GHRC is now part of the UMB's Global Health Initiative.

Mission

To promote multi-disciplinary networking and collaboration, including the sharing of applied research results and public health practices by faculty and students from all the schools across the UMB campus.

Our goal is to serve the UMB campus community as a single point of reference for international health resources, research opportunities, and possible programmatic experiences; a potential source of travel funding for both UMB students and faculty; and an arena to link students, researchers, and program implementers to each other for overseas collaborations.

Vision

To serve the large global community through education, research, and service by strengthening and building new partnerships with collaborators abroad and thus promoting health, education and social justice for all.

UMB Around the World

UMB has myriad teaching and research programs in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Latin America as well as the Eastern shore and urban poor centers of Maryland, dispersed among the six schools, addressing vulnerable populations and global health issues such as HIV/AIDS, hepatitis, cholera, malaria, cervical cancer, tobacco control, injury prevention, disaster management, social policy, law, ethics, bio-terrorism, immigrant and mental health.

The GHRC is located at the UMB School of Medicine, Institute of Human Virology, Division of Epidemiology and Prevention (Room N454).

If you have questions about the GHRC or would like to offer suggestions please feel free to contact the GHRC Coordinator Ms. Winnie Gossa at 410-706-2601 or the GHRC Director Dr. Maria Eng.

"Be the change you want to see in the world." ~ Mahatma Gandhi