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Global Connections at Yale

Centers and Offices

Yale's international and global health initiatives span multiple offices and centers, each dedicated to advancing research, education, and interdisciplinary collaborative efforts around the world. Explore their webpages to learn more about these efforts.

Yale MacMillan Center
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale is the University’s focal point for promoting teaching and research on all aspects of international affairs, societies, and cultures around the world. The MacMillan Center hosts a variety of grants and awards that can support faculty and students interested in global health.

Office of International Affairs
The Yale Office of International Affairs (OIA) is a university-wide resource that serves as the global liaison for all students, faculty, staff, and organizations involved in international activities and initiatives.

Department of Internal Medicine's Office of Global Health
The mission of the Office of Global Health in the Department of Internal Medicine is to address global health disparities through education and research, in partnership with institutions serving resource-limited communities around the world.

Office of Global Health Education
The Office of Global Health Education was established to facilitate opportunities for medical students to experience medicine as it is practiced worldwide and to enrich the learning environment at YSM.

Office of Global Affairs and Planetary Health
The Yale Office of Global Affairs & Planetary Health (GAPH) coordinates YSN’s global health endeavors both internationally and domestically. The office promotes activities which focus on ethically-sound and culturally-sensitive educational experiences, collaborative scholarship, research, and capacity building with global populations.

Faculty-Led Global Health Centers

Faculty at Yale lead centers, programs, and initiatives on a range of global health topics including climate change, infectious diseases, health equity, and innovation and entrepreneurship among others. Faculty also lead research training and other fellowship programs. We encourage you to visit the webpages below to learn more about these efforts.

Yale Center on Climate Change and Health
The Yale Center on Climate Change and Health (CCCH) utilizes research, education, public health practice, and service to help achieve a world with a stable and safe climate; one in which the public’s health and diverse ecosystems can thrive.

Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis (CIDMA)
CIDMA optimizes the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of vaccination strategies and other health interventions by quantitatively evaluating and informing public health policies.

Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)
CIRA's mission is to provide the strongest foundation of HIV-related resources, skills, services, training, and professional networking opportunities to HIV researchers and practitioners who can contribute to advances in HIV prevention and treatment, specifically, and health equity, in general.

Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS)
Yale School of Public Health's Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) was created to develop and disseminate innovative methodologic approaches to address these implementation gaps and directly improve health outcomes worldwide.

Chia Family Fellowship Program
The Chia program develops careers of women in health professions through fellowship training opportunities at Yale University and at Xiangya School of Nursing, Public Health, Medicine and the three Xiangya hospitals.

China Medical Board Fellowship Programs in Global Health
The China Medical Board is a US foundation focused on improving health professional education and training in East Asia and Southeast Asia. Yale serves as the operating center for two unique and complementary programs that promote U.S.-China biomedical exchange and global health training.

Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC)
To generate actionable research that promotes population health and healthcare system equality. ERIC supports a research portfolio that is rigorous, collaborative, and translatable to policy and practice.

InnovateHealth Yale
InnovateHealth Yale (IHY), housed at the Yale School of Public Health, supports the creation of innovative solutions to challenges in public health and education for underserved communities in the United States and low-resource countries.

International Ophthalmology and Global Eye Health
The mission of the International Ophthalmology and Global Eye Health is to create a global network of equal partners in education, research, and eye care recognizing and sharing the diversity of complementary skills, ingenuity, and resources among them.

Global Health Leadership Initiative
The Global Health Leadership Initiative (GHLI) harnesses the strengths of a leading research university to drive transformation in management, leadership, and organizational performance, creating stronger and more resilient health systems for all.

Global Health Justice Partnership
The Global Health Justice Partnership (GHJP), an initiative of the Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health, was established in 2012 to promote interdisciplinary, innovative, and effective responses to key problems in health justice.

Makerere University/Yale University Collaboration
Established in 2006, the MUYU Collaboration serves as the hub of connection between the two institutions. Through the collaboration, students, physicians, and residents from Yale participate in clinical rotations in Kampala, and similarly, Ugandan medical students and physicians are trained in New Haven.

Malaysian Implementation Science Training (MIST) Program
Yale University, in collaboration with The University of Malaya, train doctoral students in the new and exciting field of Implementation Science with a focus on HIV.

Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD)
The Uganda Initiative for Integrated Management of Non-Communicable Diseases (UINCD) is a research organization that works to find better ways to address non-communicable diseases (NCDs). UINCD aims at building capacity in the realms of prevention, care, training and research to enable the provision of effective and integrated care along the NCDs management spectrum.