Current Sponsored Research Projects

Tulane Framework for Global Health

Effective dates:  October 2008 – current
Funding Source:  NIH
Tulane's Role:  Dr. Valerie Paz Soldan is deputy director of the program
Region or Country (ies):  global
Principal Investigator(s):  Pierre Buekens (Tulane University SPHTM)

The Tulane Framework for Global Health (FGH) program has three main objectives:  1) to create new educational and research opportunities for students at Tulane in global health,  2) to foster interdisciplinary, collaborative research opportunities in global health for faculty, and 3) to create a multinational administrative body, the Office of Global Health, based in New Orleans, LA and Lima, Peru, to manage, implement, and evaluate proposed FGH activities.