Our Campus Partners

The mission of the Emory Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) is to decrease HIV incidence, improve well-being, and ultimately find a vaccine and a cure for HIV by fostering and supporting trans-disciplinary research targeting the Southern epidemic as a microcosm of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic.

The Center for Global Safe Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (CGSW) focuses on increasing access to safe drinking water, adequate sanitation, and appropriate hygiene as part of a global strategy to break the cycle of poverty and disease in developing countries. Housed in the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory, the CGSW combines academic strength with a commitment to evidence-based action, advocacy, and policy development.

Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance Network (CHAMPS) is a collaboration between powerful research organizations, including the Emory Global Health Institute and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. At each of its multiple research sites abroad, CHAMPS collects, analyzes, and interprets physical and clinical data that help determine definitive causes of death for children under five years old. Information from CHAMPS is used to drive action to reduce child deaths, contribute to long-term policy and decision making, and ultimately contribute to reduced child mortality across the world.

The Emory Global Diabetes Research Center leverages its extensive global network to support and advance world-class research in diabetes and other related noncommunicable diseases such as stroke, hypertension, and heart disease as well as comorbid conditions such as tuberculosis, mental health, and HIV.

The Emory Global Health Institute helps Emory University improve health around the world by supporting Emory faculty members and students engaged in a variety of global health research, scholarship, service, and training activities.

The Emory-Tibet Partnership is a unique educational endeavor, bringing together the best of the Western and Tibetan Buddhist intellectual traditions for their mutual enrichment and for the discovery of new knowledge. Programs explore the convergence of science and inner values in an effort to address the greatest problems of humanity on more than a material level.

The mission of the Emory Vaccine Center is to improve human health by conducting fundamental and clinical research that leads to the development of effective vaccines against diseases of global importance.

GLOBE aims to improve the health of people who are medically underserved worldwide through faculty, staff, and trainee involvement in sustainable and equitable global health education, research, and clinical care partnerships. By leveraging input from existing faculty, staff and learners across the Emory School of Medicine, the office will lead development and implementation of a cohesive, ethical, and sustainable strategy for global health impact.

The Halle Institute for Global Research and Learning supports and promotes international scholarship opportunities for faculty, students, and visiting scholars.

The Lillian Carter Center serves as the focal point for the global nursing and midwifery work of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, and coordinates several international programs for students.

One of the most pressing challenges of our time is achieving sustainable development in the face of global poverty, political and ethnic conflict, a degrading natural resource base, and irreversible climate change. The Master in Development Practice program at Emory University meets that challenge by combining hands-on learning and field experience with rigorous training in a broad range of academic disciplines.

The Maternal and Newborn Health in Ethiopia Partnership is an initiative begun in 2010 to demonstrate a community-oriented model for improving health outcomes in the birth-to-48-hour period when mothers and newborns are most vulnerable. The project works in rural Ethiopia, in the Afar, Oromia, and Amhara Regions.

SE@G aspires to increase prosperity and reduce poverty in places where markets are currently ineffective through academic research that illuminates the factors that induce and impede the realization of societal impacts; fieldwork programs that inject knowledge, networks and capital, and teaching; and student activities that develop the next generation of principled social enterprise leaders.