Research
Since 2012, CIGH has funded more than 100 early-stage global health research projects. Our approach enables the development of innovative global health solutions, encourages partnerships withcollaborators in low -and middle-income countries, and leverages the different disciplines workingon global health at Stanford.
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Applications are now open for this 12-month, NIH-supported, mentored training in global health research designed to address health inequities and improve population health.
Through two-year fellowships, this program supports early-career researchers in conducting mentored research on cutting-edge human and planetary health challenges – and developing solutions for a healthier future.
We leverage Stanfordʼs interdisciplinary strengths in engineering, environment, medicine, law, business, social sciences, and health policy to increase global health knowledge, create solutions, and effectively disseminate them. We fund Stanford research teams with global health seed grants, lead trainings on how to conduct global health research, fund post-docs and medical students to conduct research in LMICs, and showcase research through communications and convenings. Explore our programs below.
We award seed grants to multidisciplinary teams dedicated to solving global health problems in low-resource settings.
This fellowship supports Stanford medical students in gaining foundational experience in global health research.
Our annual event brings together students, faculty, staff, and researchers working in global and planetary health from Stanford & beyond.
A two-day intensive seminar on developing research skills applicable to global health.
This fellowship fosters the professional development of early career planetary health researchers and ambassadors.
A one-year mentored research training program, funded by NIH/Fogarty, for post-docs, upper-level PhD students and professional school students in LMICs.
To learn more about global health research opportunities at Stanford or connect with a faculty member, please contact Associate Director for Global Health Education, Yosefa Gilon at [email protected].
Stanford researchers can use this quick guide to launch global health research projects at Stanford.
This guide, written by Research Director Dr. Steve Luby, helps career authors write about and publish their research.
Stanford’s Lane Medical Library offers curated research resources for Global Health and Population Health.
Associate Director, Education, CIGH
Yosefa Gilon serves as the Associate Director, Global Health Education for Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health, supporting all global health education initiatives. Yosefa joined Stanford University in 2014, where she managed short-term international programs at the Bing Overseas Studies Program. One of the programs she managed was the Community Health in Oaxaca course, an exciting opportunity for undergraduate students interested in community and global health. In 2019 she joined Stanford’s Computer Science Department where she managed international computer science education programs. She joined CIGH in 2022.
Yosefa has a B.A. in Psychology from U.C. Irvine and a M.A. in International Education from the School for International Training. She is very passionate about education equity and international education and has facilitated experiential education opportunities all over the world. While serving as the Logistics Director for THINK Global School, a traveling high school, she lived and worked in Argentina, Bhutan, Ecuador, Germany, India, Japan, and Thailand.
She is very excited to be collaborating with people across the university and beyond to bring global health education opportunities to the Stanford community.Feel free to reach out to her about anything global health education related.
Associate Dean for Global Health, Director of Research, CIGH
Dr. Luby’s research interests include identifying and interrupting pathways of infectious disease transmission in low-income countries. He works primarily in Bangladesh but also has projects in Western China and Liberia. His ongoing work includes 1) assessing the impact on health and child cognitive development ofscalable strategies to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene; 2) efforts to better understand the burden of disease from typhoid fever and evaluating approaches to reduce that burden; 3) developing and evaluating interventions to reduce the risk of a Nipah virus pandemic; and 4) evaluating the impact of the Bangladeshnational vaccine program on the burden of pneumococcal and Haemophilus influenzae type B infection.
Research Assistant, CIGH
Ola serves as a research assistant for Stanford’s Center for Innovation in Global Health supporting different efforts in education and research. She has been involved with vulnerable populations in different capacities for more than 10 years. Ola’s areas of interest include forced displacement with focus on refugees, and women’s health. Her passion for global health and refugees stems from her personal experience in armed conflict and her own journey as a resettled refugee. Previously she served as the regional coordinator for International Services at the American Red Cross where she mostly worked with refugees and immigrants. She supported the establishment of the Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Health Initiative (RAHI) at UCSF that focuses on research, education and community engagement and she serves as both a steering committee member and research coordinator. Ola earned her B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from UC Berkeley. She also holds an M.S. in Global Health Sciences from UCSF. She is fluent in English and Arabic and has a big interest in different languages.