Tulane is at the forefront in these research areas.  We are deeply engaged in projects funded through the National Institutes of Health, USAID, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and other agencies that will impact the ways in which the world's health will be protected.  These are just a few of the history-making projects our faculty are working on

• Nirbhay Kumar, chair of the Department of Tropical Medicine, continues his quest to develop a malaria transmission blocking vaccine
• Jiang He, chair of the Department of Epidemiology, builds on his vast body of work in cardiovascular disease and diabetes, particularly in his research on the expansion of these diseases in China
• Kate MacIntyre, associate professor of international health and development, is currently working with the Kenyan ministry of health to develop a national plan to combat drug-resistant tuberculosis in that country
• Dean Pierre Buekens and Dan Bausch, associate professor of tropical medicine, both conduct research seeking solutions to neglected tropical diseases like Chagas disease, dengue fever, and lassa fever
• Diego Rose, associate professor of community health sciences and director of the Prevention Research Center, explores ways the built environment impacts nutrition and leads to food insecurity and, ironically, obesity and how these threats can be reversed
• Assaf Abdelghani , professor of environmental health sciences, considers the effect of chemical substances in the environment and what we can do about them
• LuAnn White, professor of environmental health sciences and director of the Center for Applied Environmental Public Health leads the New Orleans Vanguard Study Center of the National Children's Study, the largest longitudinal study ever undertaken to assess the effects of the environment on child and adult health
• Mark Van Landingham, professor of international health and development, works in both Southeast Asia and here in New Orleans to determine the impact of migration and disaster in the communities and in specific ethnic groups
• Carl Kendall, professor and director of the Center for Global Health Equity, and Wuleta Lemma, research assistant professor, are collaborating with the national governments of several countries to implement electronic medical technology systems that will improve health outcomes in resource-limited regions

To conduct this research, Tulane faculty collaborate extensively with colleagues from within the school and university as well as with leading researchers from across the globe.  Our portfolio of research relationships is ever expanding and currently includes the Autonomous University of the Yucatan, Soochow University in Suzhou, China, the University Bamako in Mali, and the Kenema Eastern Polytechnic Institute in Sierra Leone.   We also regularly host faculty and public health professionals from other universities and institutes who come here to collaborate and share their findings with us.  Such connections are not reserved for faculty only; students, too, are encouraged to participate in and lead projects here and abroad that add to the body of global health knowledge. 

Although we've long considered the global implications of disease, we continually look for new ways to further globalize the school and improve health in ways that are just, equitable, and culturally appropriate.  We did just that when we launched the Office of Global Health and now again as we unite two departments to create the Department of Global Health Systems and Development. 

Go anywhere in the world and you are likely to hear public health officials and project managers say that Tulane grads are the ones they want.  Our students are grounded in the best skills, learned from the leading experts in the field.  And thanks to the participatory nature of the education at Tulane, our grads are not just book-smart – they have gotten the hands-on experience that makes them valuable team members from Day One. 

A Tulane degree means more than just training in a discrete body of knowledge; it's an introduction to the interconnectedness of our world and the tools to improve the world's health.  Global Health begins at Tulane.