Research and Community Activities
The Department's research and service work is conducted through The GW Center for Global Health. Guided by the principles of human rights and social justice, the Center collaborates with worldwide partners to generate, disseminate and apply knowledge of critical global health issues, particularly those affecting disadvantaged people, both in the United States and around the world.
The mission of the GW Center for Global Health is to advance global health, primarily through research and scholarly service focused on improving the linkages among science, policy and best practice.
Faculty research expertise includes:
- HIV and Nutrition Policy
- Obesity
- Resource Tracking
- Costing
- Child Health
- HIV/AIDS
- Reproductive Health
- Infectious Disease
- Economics of Health
Examples of recent faculty activities:
- Research on the prevalence and nature of Intimate Partner Violence in the former Soviet country of Albania
- Analyses of data related to hypertension mortality and infant mortality in the District of Columbia
- Research on the relation of public health policy to infant mortality within the U.S.
- Advisement on Global Health at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars
- Publication development and advocacy work for strategies and best practices to end child hunger through nutrition programs
- Participation in the Center for Global Development's working group on resource tracking
- Publication development on opportunities for policymaking in global health
