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The Institute for Global Health has a rich history in innovation, strengthening both local and international capacity through the exchange of knowledge, skills and appropriate technologies.
Institute for Global Health projects
Learn more about our projects in research, care and capacity-building across the world.
List of projects
REMAP-CAP
NICS-MORU
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Web: http://remapcap.org
- Project lead: Srinivas Murthy
- Partners: NICS-MORU (Sri Lanka); The Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre; Medical Research Institute of New Zealand; Utrecht University Medical Center; Intensive Care National Audit & Research Centre; Critical Care Research; St. Michael's Hospital; University of Pittsburgh Medical Centre
- Focus area: Acute care
Action on Sepsis Research Excellence Cluster
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, Canada
Web: http://sepsis.ubc.ca
- Project leads: Mark Ansermino, Tex Kissoon
- Partner: University of British Columbia
- Focus area: Multi-disciplinary: sepsis, immunology, acute and critical care, child health, maternal health, neonatal health, genomics, point-of-care diagnostics, vaccinations, medical education
National Institute of Public Health Laboratory
Phnom Penh, Cambodia
- Project lead: Crystal Karakochuk
- Partners: Helen Keller International (HKI), National Institute of Public Health Laboratory (NIPHL - Cambodia), Cambodia Ministry of Health, Vitamin Angels Alliance
- Focus areas: Nutrition, child health, maternal health
University of British Columbia and University of Rwanda Partnership
University of Rwanda
Kigali, Rwanda
- Project lead: Gina Ogilvie
- Partners: University of British Columbia, University of Rwanda
- Focus area: Medical education, global partnerships
Integrated Cervical Cancer Screening
Uganda Cancer Institute
Kampala, Uganda
Web: https://www.globalhpvcontrol.org/aspire
- Project lead: Gina Ogilvie
- Partners: Uganda Cancer Institute (Uganda Ministry of Health), University of Rwanda and Eagle Research Centre, BC Women's Hospital
- Focus area: Cancer prevention and control
Botswana SHARE Network
Princess Marina Hospital,
Gabarone, Botswana
- Lead: David Goldfarb
- Partners: University of Pennsylvania, University of Botswana
Brighter Smiles
Hartley Bay
BC, Canada
- Project lead: Damian Duffy
- Partner: Hartley Bay (Gitga’at), a tribe of the Tsimshian Nation
- Focus area: Dentistry, psychology
Kanti Children’s Hospital
Kathmandu, Nepal, India
- Lead: Manon Ranger
- Partners: Canuck Place Children's Hospice, Canada; Kanit Children's Hospital, Nepal; Hyderabad Centre for Palliative Care, India; Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration
- Focus area: Child health
Canada, the United States, The Netherlands.
Web: http://cpnds.ubc.ca
- Project lead: Bruce Carleton
- Partners: BC Cancer, UBC Hospital, Vancouver General Hospital, St Paul's Hospital, Stollery Children's Hospital, Alberta Children's Hospital, Foothill's Hospital, Winnipeg Children's Hospital, Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre, Children's Hospital of Western Ontario, London Health Services Centre, Hamilton Children's Hospital, Kingston General Hospital, Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto), Princess Margaret Hospital, Sunnybrook Hospital, St Michael's Hospital, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal, Montreal Children's Hospital, CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital, IWK Grace Health Centre, Halifax Capital Health, Janeway Children's Hospital, Federico Gomez Children’s Hospital
- Focus area: Clinical pharmacology
Cango Lyec Research Programme
St Mary Lacor Hospital
Gulu, Uganda
- Project lead: Patricia Spittal
- Partners: Makerere University, St Mary Lacor Hospital
- Focus area: HIV research in post-conflict settings
Sudanese Childhood Diabetes Association
Khartoum, Sudan
Web: http://www.scda-sudan.org/
- Project lead: Jean Pierre Chanoine
- Partners: Sudanese Childhood Diabetes Association (SCDA), Pr Mohamed Abdullah; Global Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes
- Focus area: Childhood diabetes
Mbabane Hospital
Lusutfu Rd, Eswatini
- Project lead: Srinivas Murthy
- Partners: Mbabane Hospital
- Focus area: Acute care
University Teaching Hospital of Kigali
Kigali, Rwanda
- Lead: Marianne Vidler
- Partners: University of Rwanda, Eagle Research Centre Rwanda
Designing Targeted Interventions to Address HIV Vulnerabilities and Improve Clinical Outcomes Among Conflict-Affected Adolescent Girls and Young Women Under 25 in Northern Uganda
St Mary Lacor Hospital
Gulu, Uganda
- Project lead: Patricia Spittal
- Partners: Makerere University, St Mary Lacor Hospital
- Focus area: HIV research in post-conflict settings
Canada, Hong Kong
- Project lead: Bruce Carleton
- Partners: Universities, hospitals, research institutes
- Focus area: Pharmacoepidemiology
New Zealand, Canada, Australia, The Netherlands, Finland, Denmark, United Kingdom, Argentina, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan
Web: https://www.globalvaccinedatanetwork.org/
- Project lead: Bruce Carleton
- Partners: Research institutes, universities, hospitals and NGOs worldwide
- Focus area: Vaccine safety, genetic basis of vaccine-induced harm
HGRP
Global
Web: https://www.hippylab.ca/registries
- Project lead: Kishore Mulpuri
- Partners: Fifty participating sites in six continents. Supported by the I'm a HIPpy and Peterson Fund for Global Hip Health
- Focus area: Pediatric orthopedics
Improving the Early Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis
Kamuzu Central Hospital
Lilongwe, Malawi, Uganda
- Project lead: Pascal Lavoie
- Partners: University of North Carolina, Kamuzu Central Hospital, Malawi Ministry of Health, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Walimu
- Focus area: Neonatal sepsis
Injury Prevention in Lebanon
American University of Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon
- Project lead: Ian Pike
- Partner: American University of Beirut, Faculty of Health Sciences
Canada, Kenya, Uganda, Peru, United Kingdom
Web: https://id.med.ubc.ca/education/infectious-diseases-research-education/research/mhealth/
- Project lead: Richard Lester
- Partners: Amref Health Africa, University of Washington, UCL London, Rwanda Biomedical Center, Samburu County Kenya, WelTel
- Focus areas: Digital health for patient care and engagement (virtual care), mobile health (mHealth), data science, natural language processing (NLP), innovation to commercialization, public health (e.g. HIV, TB, COVID-19)
Initial Validation of a Culturally Appropriate, Neurodevelopmental e-Tool for Assessing Infants and Children Post-sepsis
Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital
Mbarara, Uganda
- Project lead: Liisa Holsti
- Partners: Harvard University Center for AIDS Research, Harvard Global Health Institute
- Focus area: Child health
Sepsis CoLab
Vancouver
Canada
Web: https://wfpiccs.org/pediatric-sepsis-colab/
- Project leads: Tex Kissoon, Mark Ansermino
- Partner: World Federation of Pediatric Intensive & Critical Care Societies
- Focus areas: Pediatric sepsis, data-sharing network
Healthy Trajectories for Mums and Their Children
The Gambia; Nairobi, Kenya
Web: https://precisenetwork.org/
- Project lead: Marianne Vidler
- Partners: MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, Aga Khan University
- Focus areas: Maternal health, child health
PRECISE Network
The Gambia
Kenya, Mozambique
Web: https://precisenetwork.org/
- Project lead: Marianne Vidler
- Partners: MRC Unit The Gambia at LSHTM, Aga Khan University
- Focus area: Maternal health
Pulse Oximeter for Low Resource Settings
Various locations, Uganda
- Project lead: Mark Ansermino
- Focus area: Pediatric anesthesia
ENGAGE Trial
Hellenic Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
Athens, Greece
- CICH project lead: Marianne Vidler
- Partners: Hellenic Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, St George's, University of London, A. G. Leventis Foundation, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- Focus area: Maternal health
Improving Post-discharge Outcomes in Children After Treatment for Sepsis
Walimu
Kampala, Uganda
Web: https://bcchr.ca/smart-discharges
- Project lead: Matthew Wiens
- Partners: Walimu, Uganda Ministry of Health, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau
- Focus areas: Child health, post-discharge care
A data-driven quality improvement initiative to improve care for critically ill children
Uganda, Kenya
Web: https://www.bcchr.ca/globalhealth/our-projects/project-highlights/smart-triage
- Project leads: Niranjan Kissoon, Mark Ansermino
- Partners: Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI), Walimu, Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau
- Focus areas: Child health, quality improvement
WoMANPOWER
Uganda, Thailand, United Kingdom
Web: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04589312
- Project lead: Manish Sadarangani
- Partners: St George's, University of London, Public Health England, MU-JHU CARE, BioNet-Asia, University of British Columbia
- Focus areas: Maternal health, immunization
TraCer Project
Kenya, The Gambia, United Kingdom
Web: https://precisenetwork.org/research-themes/clinical/
- Project lead: Marianne Vidler
- Partners: Oxford University, Aga Khan University
- Focus areas: Maternal health, ultrasound
VIBES-Junior
Australia, Canada, The United States
- Project lead: Mariana Brussoni
- Partner: Monash University (lead)
- Focus area: Injury prevention