"Northwestern students, faculty, staff and community partners shared and recognized global health research, education and outreach at the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health's 14 th annual Global Health Day. The day-long event, held on November 19 in the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center, featured a global health case competition, poster presentations and keynote address, with opening remarks delivered by Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo, MS, DO, associate professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Infectious Diseases and co-director of the Center for Global Pediatric Health."
"Thank you for taking the time to join us today for Havey Institute for Global Health's annual Global Health Day. This event is an annual opportunity for global health researchers, educators, trainees and students to celebrate and discover more about global health research, education and outreach efforts throughout Northwestern, Chicago and beyond, Dirajlal-Fargo said."
"The event kicked off with an intramural global health case competition, in which teams of four to six trainees from a minimum of three schools at Northwestern pitched solutions to complex, real-world global health challenges. The case competition was followed by a poster session in which attendees were invited to learn about new global health research led by Feinberg students, trainees, and faculty as well as community partners and institutions."
"Dannielle Grayer, MD, MPH, a fellow in pediatrics, presented her research in which she spent six months in Tanzania studying inflammation, metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease risk in older persons living with HIV to better understand the relationship between chronic inflammation that occurs from HIV and cardiovascular metabolic outcomes. From a cross-sectional analysis of the Tanzanian HIV and Aging Longitudinal Cohort Study, Grayer found that metabolic syndrome was consistent with rates reported across sub-Saharan Africa and compared to patients from higher-in"
Havey Institute for Global Health held its 14th annual Global Health Day on November 19 at the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center. The event included an intramural global health case competition, poster presentations, and a keynote address with opening remarks by Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo, MS, DO. Case competition teams of four to six trainees from at least three Northwestern schools proposed solutions to complex global health challenges. The poster session featured research by Feinberg students, trainees, faculty, and community partners. Dannielle Grayer presented Tanzania-based research on inflammation, metabolic syndrome, and cardiovascular risk among older people living with HIV.
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