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The Center for Global Health (CGH) is a new interdisciplinary center at the University of Oregon (UO) that supports a wide range of scientific, educational, and service-oriented initiatives designed to understand and ameliorate the world’s most challenging health and social problems.

The CGH was launched in 2015 to provide a unifying framework for students, staff, and faculty across the university dedicated to improving health and well-being through education, research and training, and service in partnership with communities in the United States and around the world.

Because many academic disciplines are needed to address the challenges of global health, CGH leverages the unique institutional strengths of the University of Oregon to bring together faculty and students from different schools and programs on campus ranging from natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and professional schools.

The CGH is housed in and administratively supported by the UO Global Studies Institute (GSI) a branch of the Division of Global Engagement. GSI supports a dozen UO international research and outreach centers and programs, seeking to expand faculty international research, global opportunities for students, and campus internationalization.

The mission of the CGH is to catalyze equitable partnerships in research, practice, teaching and service to make innovative and creative advances in addressing global challenges to health and well-being.

Center Co-Directors

Clare Evans, Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology

Jeff Measelle, Professor
Department of Psychology

Josh Snodgrass, Professor
Department of Anthropology

Jo Weaver, Associate Professor
Department of Global Studies

Kristin Yarris, Associate Professor
Department of Global Studies

Center Staff

Elly Vandegrift
Global Studies Institute

Meaghan Bogart
Global Studies Institute

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