President's Global Impact Fund Projects
2023 - 2024

UMB Consortium on Comparative Constitutional Democracy
Peter G. Danchin, JSD, Director of the International and Comparative Law Program, UM Carey School of Law

Nigeria - Diabetes Prevention Translation: Integrated Nurse-Led Peer-Facilitated Healthy Lifestyle Controlled Study
Oluremi Adejumo, DNP, MS., RN, FIAAN, Assistant Professor, UM School of Nursing

Nigeria - Integrating mental health care in HIV programs in Imo State, Nigeria using a collaborative care model
Charlotte Nwogwugwu, DrPH, Assistant Professor, UM School of Nursing

Nigeria: Building an International OEM Mutual Education Community
Marianne Cloeren, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, School of Medicine

Peru - Development of a Neurodevelopmental Ecological Screening and Referral mHealth Tool to Link Children and Families to Behavioral Health Care
George Jay Unick, PhD, MSW, Associate Professor, UM School of Social Work

Zambia - Establishing a sustainable rotation exchange between UMSOP and UNZA
Emily Heil, PharmD, MS, Associate Professor of Practice, Sciences, and Heath Outcomes Research, UM School of Pharmacy

Zambia - Establishing a Low Fidelity Simulation Curriculum in Resource Limited Areas to Improve Acute Patient Care in Lusaka Zambia
Aarani Kandeepan, MD, Pediatric Critical Care Fellow, UM Medical Center

Zambia - Climate Change and Mental Health Outcomes among Migrant Fisherfolk in Zambia
Lynn Murphy Michalopoulos, PhD, UM School of Social Work
2022 - 2023
Occasionally, CGE uses funds to support smaller innovation grants and in 2022, awarded five PGIF Partnership Support Awards. The awards are an off shoot of the PGIF program that makes smaller awards to help expand or maintain existing partnerships. When such funds are available, they will be advertised widely on campus.

Costa Rica– Expanding and Strengthening International Partnerships with the University of Costa Rica and Rajagiri College of Social Sciences
Caroline Long, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of Global Engagement, UM School of Social Work

Ireland – Intensive Co-Sponsored Activities to Grow an International Partnership with National University of Ireland, Galway School of Law
Peter Danchin, JSD, LLM, LLB, Professor and Director of International and Comparative Law Program, UM Carey School of Law

Italy – Expanding Long Time International Partnership with University of Camerino
Agnes Ann Feemster, PharmD, BCPS, Assistant Dean, Experiential Learning Program, UMB School of Pharmacy

Japan – Global Health Aging
Flavius R. W. Lilly, PhD, MA, MPH, Vice Dean of the UMB Graduate School and Vice Provost of Academic and Student Affairs

Liberia – Simulation Train the Trainer Program for Liberian Nurses
Amy Daniels, PhD, RN, CHSE-A, Assistant Professor of Partnerships, Professional Education, and Practice, UM School of Nursing, and Yolanda Ogbolu, PhD, CRNP-Neonatal, FNAP, FAAN, Associate Professor and Chair of Partnerships, Professional Education, and Practice, UM School of Nursing

Malawi– Partnership Growth through Professional Development
Miriam Laufer, MD, MPH, Professor and Associate Dean, Center for Vaccine Development and UM School of Medicine

Tanzania – Global Field Experience
Elias Snyder, PhD, Director of the Office of Global Health and Program Director of Global Health Certificate, UM School of Nursing, and Charlotte Nwogwugwu, DrPH, Assistant Professor of Partnerships, Professional Education, and Practice, UM School of Nursing
2021 - 2022

Point Prevalence Study in Acute Pediatric Critical Illness in Low-Resource Countries
Adrian Holloway, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics and Adnan Bhutta, MBBS, Professor, Pediatrics, UM School of Medicine

Kenya – REACH (Reaching, Engaging Adolescents and Young Adults for Care Continuum in Health) Mental Health
Peter Memiah, DrPH, MSc, Associate Professor, Epidemiology (Ciheb) and Fernando Wagner, MPH, DS, Professor, UM School of Social Work
2020 - 2021

Angola – Consortium for Malaria Research in Angola (C-MalAng)
Joana Carneiro Da Silva, PhD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology; Miriam Laufer, MD, Professor; and Shannon Takala-Harrison, PhD, Associate Professor, UM School of Medicine

Brazil – Developing Capacity for Long-Term Care of Older Adults Living with Dementia
Michael Lepore, PhD, Professor, UM School of Nursing, and Ester Villalonga Olives, PhD, MSc, Assistant Professor, UM School of Pharmacy

Malawi – Environmental Justice, Human Rights and Public Health Legal Theory and Practice Seminar
Diane Hoffmann, JD, MS, Professor of Health Law, Director of Law & Health Care Program; Peter Danchin, JSD, LLM, LLB, Professor; and Robert Percival, JD, MA, Professor from the UM School of Law

Nigeria – From Post-Graduate to PI: Developing Independent Scholars of Implementation Science in West and Central Africa
Dr. Alash'le G. Abimiku, PhD, MS, Professor, UM School of Medicine

Rwanda – Strengthening the National Cancer Registry in Rwanda
David Riedel, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, UM School of Medicine and Director of Infectious Disease Fellowship Program, IHV; Clement Adebamowo, ChB, ScD, FWACS, FACS, Professor, IHV

Rwanda - Energizing Gastroenterology Development in Rwanda (EGD-Rwanda)
Erik von Rosenvinge, MD, Associate Professor, and Kenechukwu Chudy-Onwugaje, M.B.B.S., MPH, GI Fellow, School of Medicine

The Gambia – UMB and Its Duty of Care: Building Resilient Health Systems with Host Country Partners
Melissa McDiarmid, MD, MPH, DABT, Professor, Director of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, and Joanna Gaitens, PhD, MSN/MPH, Assistant Professor, UM School of Medicine

The Gambia – Strengthening Capacity in Health Research Ethics and Research Methodology
Veronica Njie-Carr, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FWACN, Associate Professor, UM School of Nursing, and Henry Silverman, MD, MA, Professor, Director of MICU, UM School of Medicine

Zambia – Global Health Rotations
Cassidy Claassen, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor & Technical Director/Chief of Party (CIRKUITS), CIHEB, IHV, and UM School of Medicine; Lottie Hachaambwa, MB, ChB, Assistant Professor, IHV and UM School of Medicine
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