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Community Spotlight: World TB Day

Each year on World TB Day, we celebrate those advancing the fight against tuberculosis through research, collaboration, and compassion. This World TB Day, CGHE wants to spotlight the partnerships between faculty and students such as the work of Dr. Silvia Chiang and Alex Pralea (MD ‘28), whose joint research on pediatric tuberculosis in Buenos Aires, Argentina, showcases how shared inquiry can advance global health.
Following the destruction caused by Hurricane Melissa, Project HOPE mobilized medical volunteers to address urgent health needs in vulnerable communities in Jamaica. Dr. Rose Zandvliet traveled to Jamaica in January as part of this effort as part of this effort, supporting patients and coordinating disaster-response planning and community-based care delivery.
On World AIDS Day this year, it is important to highlight the critical role that innovative research plays in improving the lives of those affected by HIV. At the Center for Global Health Equity, we are proud to spotlight the incredible work of the Emerging Infectious Disease and HIV Scholars (HEIDS) program, an initiative shaping the next generation physician-scientists to tackle HIV and its challenges.
2025 Dean's Report

Now a Center, Global Health Expands Its Focus

For 15 years, Brown’s Global Health Initiative led NIH-funded research and training programs around the world and promoted medical student research with seed grants and the mentorship of dozens of BioMed faculty working in global and refugee health.
Brown University’s longstanding commitment to global research training focused on cervical cancer among women living with HIV in Kenya began in 2011 with the NIH Fogarty-funded D43 AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) and was expanded by the NIH-FIC-funded Brown/Moi Training Program for the Prevention of HIV-Related Cervical Cancer in 2018.