Public Health

Bonnie Gordon, Fall 2024 CGII GPOD Research Project

The purpose of this project is to develop the STAR Global Autism Initiative as a new branch of UVa’s Supporting Transformative Autism Research (STAR).

Healthy Learners is an international NGO that developed an innovative, low-cost school health program in Zambia.

This project aims to address growing concerns about school safety, youth violence, and mental health in Mexico by adapting and implementing the evidence-based Coping Power Program.

This project will partner a UVA global health student with a Cambodian community mental health team to develop a research project focused on family and community supports for people with severe mental illness in Cambodia.

This project is a comparative ethnographic study of gender-based community care programs and their impact on LGBTQ elderly in a non-Western context.

In Bolivia, autism diagnoses are most often delayed or missed due to the scare number of healthcare professionals with autism training or expertise.

This research takes the form of a creative documentary film to describe and interpret how the pharmaceuticals have shaped the landscape specifically looking at the impending crisis of the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria in the environment.

As Filipino nurses remain an elusive subject of history, their present-day hypervisibility casts a ghostly shadow­ haunting the legacy of United States imperialism.

Surgical outcomes in low/middle income countries (LMIC) are much worse than those in high income countries, causing millions of preventable deaths per year.