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Community Spotlight: World Chagas Disease Day

For World Chagas Disease Day, we are highlighting Dr. Meagan Barry, who dedicated her graduate studies to focusing on improving understanding, diagnosis, and care for Chagas disease.
This World Health Day, CGHE is highlighting Saajan Patel MD '29 and his team at Che Innovations who were awarded 1st place at the 2026 Brown Venture Prize for their global health innovation, NeoNest: a low-cost transport infant warmer designed from locally available Ugandan materials. Developed to address preterm hypothermia during transit, NeoNest is built upon community insight and international collaboration.
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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.
On a chilly October day, Stallone Kohia, MMed, found himself thousands of miles away from his tropical Pacific home in Solomon Islands. It was his first experience with truly cold weather in America, visiting New York City and later venturing to Brown University and The Warren Alpert Medical School, in what was a professional and personal pilgrimage for Solomon Islands’ first surgeon to train at a US-based hospital.
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.
The Global Health Scholars Training Grant supports trainees committed to global health and health equity. The Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE) is pleased to present this year’s cohort of grantees, whose work reflects a shared commitment to advancing research, strengthening partnerships, and addressing pressing health challenges in diverse communities around the world.
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.