Mission
To facilitate and focus the extensive expertise and resources of the Johns Hopkins Institutions together with global collaborators to effectively address and ameliorate the world's most pressing health issues. Background
The Center provides a forum for innovative, informed, and visionary thinking about global health issues in the 21st century. It promotes collaboration; marshals resources for research, policy, and programmatic initiatives; recruits dynamic faculty and other professionals; and trains the next generation of leaders in global health.
The Center has implemented a variety of programming initiatives focused on providing resources and educational opportunities to faculty, staff, and students in order to keep Hopkins on the cutting edge of global health. To achieve our goals, we offer a global health speakers series, grants for overseas fellowships, full tuition scholarships, and a website full of global health news and resources.
The Center also promotes the work of Hopkins faculty by managing the Global Projects Database, a catalog of all of the international projects being worked on across the university. The projects listed in this database are not being sponsored or managed by the Center for Global Health; rather, each individual faculty member is responsible for their own projects and funding. The Center does work to spot potential synergies and organize collaborations where appropriate between faculty members in order to tackle global health issues in new and unique ways.
The Center for Global Health will be governed jointly by the deans of the Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine and School of Nursing. The Center for Global Health’s director is Thomas Quinn, MD. The director will initially report to the Bloomberg School’s dean, Michael J. Klag, MD, MPH. Three Associate Directors serve as liaisons between their respective schools and the Center: Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH (Public Health); Robert C. Bollinger, Jr., MD, MPH (Medicine); and Nancy Glass, PhD, MPH, RN (Nursing). The Center for Global Health’s staff will also work with an executive advisory committee, as well as with internal and external advisory committees, to define key global health problems. Over 380 faculty members throughout Johns Hopkins University are also associated with the Center.
The deans of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, School of Medicine and School of Nursing have committed funds to launch the Center for Global Health. Currently, Johns Hopkins is awarded approximately $500 million in international health funding each year from various sources. Staff will also seek additional donations for the Center for Global Health.
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