Eck Institute for Global Health
ND Research Explores: The Eck Institute for Global Health
The University of Notre Dame’s Eck Institute for Global Health (EIGH), under the direction of Bernard Nahlen, serves as a university-wide enterprise that recognizes health as a...
watch video
Notre Dame researchers present latest findings and innovations to nation’s second highest-ranking military officer
In October 2022, Admiral Christopher W. Grady ’84, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, joined faculty members at the University of Notre Dame for an update on the...
Read Article
Global Health Colloquium: “Research Interventions to Address Gaps in Practice”
This week’s Global Health Colloquium will focus on the topic of maternal health, featuring Yenupini Joyce Adams, Visiting Assistant Professor of Global Health from the Keough...
View Event
Global Health Seminar: “Lessons from the AIDS epidemic”
In 1981, Dr. James W. Curran ’66 was tapped to lead a CDC task force charged with determining what was behind the first cases of what we now know as AIDS. Dr. Curran will...
View Event
George B. Craig, Jr. Memorial Lecture: “Kill the Messenger: Developing mosquitocidal vaccines and drugs to control mosquito-borne diseases”
Dr. Brian Foy ’94 has helped pioneer studies designed to target mosquito vectors through their bloodmeals as a way to disrupt mosquito-borne pathogen transmission and reduce...
View Event
Where We’re Going: Healthcare – National Viewpoint
The latest installment of Where We’re Going will invite Notre Dame faculty and global experts to focus on healthcare and timely issues like public health and healthcare...
View Event
Where We’re Going: Healthcare – Global Viewpoint
The latest installment of Where We’re Going invites Notre Dame faculty and global experts to focus on healthcare and timely issues like public health and healthcare technology....
View Event
Notre Dame launches a weekly webinar series discussing COVID-19
A new webinar series at the University of Notre Dame, titled “Consider This! Simplifying the COVID-19 Conversation,” will unpack the science and research behind the...
Read Article
Study: Transmission of River Blindness May Be Reduced When Vegetation is Removed
The World Health Organization has set a goal to eliminate river blindness, a neglected tropical disease found mostly in African villages near fast-flowing rivers and streams, by...
Read Article
Mosquitoes are a major global health threat and Notre Dame researchers are fighting back
More than a million people die from diseases spread by mosquitoes each year. Malaria is one of the biggest culprits, with an estimated 219 million new cases of the disease each...
Read Article
U.S. Leadership in Global Health and Humanitarian Response with Admiral Tim Ziemer of USAID
Episode two features Admiral Tim Ziemer, the acting assistant administrator for the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA) at the United States...
Listen to Podcast
Study: Tuberculosis Survives by Using Host System Against Itself
In a new study published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, scientists at the University of Notre Dame have discovered that the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB)...
Read Article