Emory faculty and staff demonstrate surgical techniques for an Emory medical student and a Haitian physician.

Take your work further

Opportunities for faculty to conduct research collaborations abroad with colleagues from partner institutions like Yonsei University in South Korea or incorporate Latinx perspectives into the curriculum right here in Atlanta help to shape Emory's academic culture and to attract and inspire world-class scholars.

Let us help you

Conducting research abroad, hosting international scholars, and planning global projects all get complicated fast. Export controls? Paying foreign nationals? Where do you even start? Don’t worry. Just call Global Services. Like a librarian before the Age of Google, Global Services does the research for you and connects you with the expertise to keep your project moving.

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Build momentum

Emory’s global strategies identify five geographic focal points around the world where we have the opportunity to leverage existing strengths for even greater impact. Each country initiative has a unique profile, bringing with it advantages for faculty interested in expanding their work in the region.

Country initiatives

Use Your Resources

The Atlanta Global Research and Education Collaborative (AGREC) seeks to build and strengthen collaborative networks of multi-institutional scholars and practitioners to support global research and education initiatives in the Greater Atlanta region.

AGREC is a collaboration between Emory University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, Spelman College, and Agnes Scott College.

The Emory College Language Center contributes to the fulfillment of Emory's commitment to international education by promoting the teaching and learning of languages as an essential component of the intellectual experience of students and faculty at Emory College.

The Emory Global Health Institute provides Emory faculty with research project support through Global Health Partnership program grants and through faculty seed grants.

The International Area Studies Team of Woodruff General Library develops information resources and provides library services to Emory faculty and students in various international area studies. The team is formed by the librarians in African Studies, Chinese Studies, East Asian Studies, Japanese Studies, Korean Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Middle East & Islamic Studies, Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies, and South Asian Studies.

As part of an academic research institution that engages in regular collaborations with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, TravelWell is uniquely qualified to provide the most up-to-date travel-related health care, whether you need a consultation to prepare for an international trip or expert evaluation and treatment for illnesses acquired abroad.

Faculty and staff interested in additional information and support through the scholar application process can find resources available through the Halle Institute for Global Research and the Office of Global Strategy and Initiatives.

Global Services offers an extensive online library and single point of human contact for questions and issues that might arise when conducting research abroad, hosting international scholars, planning a global project, or building institutional agreements. Global Services is a unit of the Office of Global Strategy and Initiatives.

Faculty and student researchers can find useful resources for international collaborative research through the Halle Institute for Global Research. Opportunities through the Halle Institute are open to all disciplines, to any Emory school or unit, and are peer-reviewed. The Halle Institute is a unit of the Office of Global Strategy and Initiatives.

Collaborative Research Grants | Fulbright Distinguished Chairs | Graduate and Undergraduate Global Research Fellows

Emory contracts with International SOS to provide security and medical evacuation services and a variety of online health, safety, and security resources for Emory community members traveling abroad on university business or sponsored activities.

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Journeys of Reconciliation is an interreligious immersion program, open to students, faculty, staff, and alumni of Emory University, that explores the root causes of conflict and builds relationships between Emory University and communities in the US and around the world.

The Emory Structured Independent Language Study program is available to students, faculty, and staff who need to study languages that are not part of the regular curriculum. Among the languages offered are Amharic, ASL, Bengali, Czech, Georgian, Greek (Modern), Haitian Creole, Indonesian, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Serbo-Croatian, Swahili, Thai, Turkish, Twi, and Vietnamese.

In some cases, a fee may be charged.