UC Global Health Institute

The University of California Global Health Institute (UCGHI) addresses long-standing and emerging challenges to global health through its education, research and partnership initiatives.

The Institute’s three multi-campus, transdisciplinary Centers of Expertise comprise dozens of faculty across the 10-campus UC system and are harnessing their expertise to address the increasingly complex global health problems and needs of the world’s most vulnerable populations.

Current Fact Sheet available here

Centers of Expertise

Did you know?

The UCGHI works with the University of California Haiti Initiative (UCHI), a grassroots organization within the UC system dedicated to facilitating the growth or furtherance of partnerships between UC and Haitian institutions for support of reconstruction and development by the people of Haiti.
The University of California is impacting the health of people around the world through innovative research and initiatives on every UC campus
The global health sector supports 350,000 high quality jobs in California and $19.7 billion in wages and salaries? UCGHI Economic Impact Report »
Global health has been named among the top five priorities of the National Institutes of Health and has received a White House commitment of $63 billion over the next six years.
Student enrollment in global health education programs has doubled nationwide in the past three years alone.

I am proud that California is such a leader in the emerging academic discipline of global health. The formation of the University of California multi-campus Global Health Institute and the efforts undertaken by other universities, nonprofit organizations and the business sector directly impact the health of California and the world.

Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger